ARCH.EOLOGIA  AMERICANA. 


TRANSACTIONS 


AND 


COLLECTIONS 


OF    THE 


AMERICAN  ANTIQUARIAN  SOCIETY, 


VOLUME    VII. 


PRINTED    FOR    THE    SOCIETY. 

1885. 


Committee  of  publication. 

REV.  EDWARD   EVERETT    HALE,  D.D.,  of  Boston. 
CHARLES    DEANE,  LL.D.,  of  Cambridge. 
NATHANIEL    PAINE,  ESQ.,  of  Worcester. 
CHARLES    AUGUSTUS    CHASE,  A.3L,  of  Worcester. 


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v.  1 


ARCH^OLOGIA    AMERICANA 


In  carpi  Lance  vith  current 
law.  U.C.  Library  Bindery  produced 
this  replacement  volume  GO  paper 
that  meets  the  ANSI  Standard  Z39  4S. 
1984  to  replace  the  irreparably 
deteriorated  original 


1995 


NOTE-BOOK 


KEPT   BY 


THOMAS    LECHFORD,   ESQ., 

LAWYER, 


In  Boston,  IHassadjusette 


FROM    JUNE    27,     1638,    TO    JULY    29,     1641. 


CAMBRIDGE: 
JOHN    WILSON    AND    SON. 
2Hmbersi'tg 

1885. 


Cupyriyht,  lS85t 
BY  THE  AMERICAN  ANTIQUARIAN   SOCIETY. 


INTRODUCTORY    NOTE. 


fTTlIE  Council  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society 
determined  many  years  since  to  include  LKCII- 
FOUD'S  NOTE-BOOK  in  its  publications.  Mr.  SAMUEL 
JENNISON,  so  long  an  active  officer  of  the  Society, 
had  obtained  the  original  manuscript  from  a  friend, 
and  had  devoted  much  time  to  its  study.  He  had 
made  a  beginning-  in  preparing  it  for  the  press  at 
the  time  of  his  death. 

It  will  readily  be  seen  that  it  is  one  of  the  most 
valuable  documents  which  have  been  preserved,  of 
the  history  of  the  first  generation  of  Massachusetts.  It 
is  the  daily  record  of  the  work  done  in  the  office  of  the 
only  professional  lawyer  in  the  colony.  His  duties 
brought  him  into  close  relations  with  people  of  every 
class ;  and  in  more  than  one  instance  his  memo 
randa  throw  light  on  social  customs,  on  questions  of 
local  geography,  on  points  of  family  history,  and  on 
the  development  of  the  political  life  of  the  country. 
Poor  Lechford's  own  character,  and  the  circumstances, 
almost  pathetic,  of  his  controversies  with  the  leader  of 
the  colony,  and  of  his  return  to  England,  are  all  eluci 
dated  in  the  volume. 


3415470 


iv  INTRODUCTORY  NOTE. 

The  Council  thanks  all  the  gentlemen  who  have 
been  connected  with  the  publication  of  the  volume  for 
the  interest  which  they  have  taken  in  it;  and  espe 
cially  our  associate,  Mr.  Samuel  Jennison,  of  Boston, 
the  present  owner  of  the  original  manuscript,  for 
permission  to  print  it.  It  would  not  even  now  be 
published  but  for  the  personal  care  and  attention  of 
our  lamented  friend  Judge  FOSTER,  who  studied,  with 
a  lawyer's  sympathy,  these  memorials  of  the  life  of 
the  first  New  England  lawyer.  But  for  his  death  the 
volume  would  have  been  earlier  completed. 

The  expense  of  printing  has  been  partially  met  by  a 
special  subscription  among  the  members  of  the  Society, 
the  Publishing  Fund  being  unfortunately  so  small  that 
the  expense  of  printing  the  regular  "  Proceedings"  of  the 
Society  exhausts  all  its  income. 

For  the  Committee  of  Publication, 

EDWARD  E.  HALE. 

BOSTON,  September  17,  1885. 


EDITOR'S    NOTE. 


O  OME  years  ago  the  late  Mr.  Samuel  Jennison  be 
gan  tlie  work  of  transcription  and  preparation  for 
publication  of  Lechford's  Note-look,  but  was  unable 
to  carry  it  to  a  conclusion.  Mr.  J.  Hammond  Trum- 
bull  afterwards  prepared  a  portion  of  the  Note-book 
for  publication,  but  did  not  finish  it,  owing  to  his 
work  in  his  edition  of  Lechford's  Plain  Dealing. 

Two  years  or  more  ago  the  late  Judge  Foster 
desired  to  publish  the  Note-book  for  the  American 
Antiquarian  Society,  and  with  his  son,  Mr.  Alfred  D. 
Foster,  did  much  in  the  way  of  preparation.  Finding, 
however,  that  he  was  unable  to  continue  the  work 
through  the  pressure  of  his  professional  duties,  Judge 
Foster  requested  me  to  take  the  work  in  the  state  in 
which  it  then  stood  and  see  it  through  the  press. 

This  I  have  now  done ;  and  after  many  vexatious 
delays  the  Note-look  has  reached  publication.  My  own 
work  has  been  in  the  line  of  an  arranger  and  com 
piler  of  the  work  of  others,  as  well  as  in  that  of  ori 
ginal  research.  All  the  indexes,  abstracts,  notes,  and 
other  papers  drawn  up  by  Mr.  Jennison,  Mr.  Trum- 
bull,  Judge  Foster,  and  Mr.  A.  D.  Foster  were  put 
into  my  hands,  and  I  have  found  them  of  the  greatest 
use.  The  translation  of  the  short-hand  was  done  in 
great  part  by  Mr.  Trumbull,  and  partly  by  Mr.  William 


vi  EDITOR'S  NOTE. 

P.  Upliani.  The  notes  to  the  first  one  hundred  pages, 
prepared  by  Mr.  Trumbull  for  his  projected  edition, 
have  been  bodily  transferred  by  me,  with  such  correc 
tions  as  that  gentleman  desired  to  make.  Such  notes 
are  marked  with  a  [T]. 

I  have  had  at  every  step  in  my  work  the  careful 
guidance  and  assistance  of  my  father,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Edward  E.  Hale,  who  has  given  much  of  his  time 
to  a  careful  revision  of  the  proofs,  as  well  as  most 
unfailing  sympathy  and  interest  to  every  portion  of 
the  work.  I  must  also  gladly  acknowledge  the  kind 
and  useful  assistance  rendered  by  Mr.  John  AVard 
Dean,  Mr.  J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  Dr.  Samuel  A. 
Green,  Mr.  Charles  Deane,  Mr.  William  S;  Appleton, 
Mr.  Edmund  M.  Barton,  librarian,  r.nd  Mr.  Reuben 
Col  ton,  assistant  librarian,  of  the  Society,  in  supervis 
ing  and  correcting  the  proof-sheets  of  a  great  part 
of  the  volume.  I  should  like  also  to  thank  very  cor 
dially  Mr.  George  Lamb,  Mr.  William  13.  Weeden, 
Mr.  Henry  II.  Edes,  and  Mr.  Nathan  Matthews,  Jr., 
for  assistance  given  in  matters  with  which  they  were 
especially  conversant. 

The  Introductory  Life  is  that  prepared  by  Mr.  J. 
Hammond  Trumbull  for  his  edition  of  the  Plain  Deal 
ing.  With  his  consent,  at  the  suggestion  and  desire 
of  Judge  Foster,  and  through  the  courtesy  of  Mr. 
William  P.  Lunt,  it  is  now  prefixed  to  this  edition  of 
the  Note-look. 

EDWARD  EVERETT  HALE,  JR. 

MATUNUCK,  R.I.,  August  1,  1885. 


A    SKETCH 


OF   THE 


LIFE    OF    THOMAS    LECHFOKD, 

BY  J.    HAMMOND    TRUMBULL. 


/~\F  the  birth  and  parentage  of  Thomas  Lechford,  or  of  his 
^-^  early  life,  I  have  no  certain  knowledge.  His  surname  is 
that  of  a  family  which,  at  about  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  became  seated  at  Leigh,  near  Reigate,  in  the  county 
of  Surrey,  where  Henry  Lechford,  great-grandson  of  a  Thomas 
Lechford  who  lived  in  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.  (1401-1482), 
bought  the  manors  of  Shellwood  and  Charlwood,  with  other 
estates.  This  Henry  dying  Sept.  27, 1507,  left  a  son,  Richard, 
born  in  1547,  who  was  knighted.  Sir  Richard  Lechford  was 
twice  married :  first,  to  Ann,  daughter  of  George  Lusher,  by 
whom  he  had  two  sons,  John  and  Thomas  ;  and,  secondly,  to 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  William  Morgan,  of  Chilworth,  Esq. 
Henry,  a  son  of  the  second  marriage,  died  in  1000,  before  his 
father,  but  left  a  son,  Richard  (born  about  December,  1594), 
who  inherited  the  estates  of  his  grandfather  on  the  death  of 
the  latter,  July  10,  1611.  John  and  Thomas,  above  named, 
sons  of  Sir  Richard  by  his  first  wife,  were  living  in  1000, 
when  they  are  named  in  a  deed  of  settlement  by  their  father 
on  his  second  wife  and  her  children.1  Their  nephew,  Richard 
Lechford,  was  knighted  by  James  I.  Early  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  I.  he  was  enrolled  in  the  band  of  "  Gentlemen  Pen 
sioners,"  who  constituted  the  king's  body-guard.  Like  many 
other  courtiers  of  his  day  he  became  a  Roman  Catholic,  and 

1  Mann  ing  and  Bray's  History  of  Surrey,  ii.  181,  184-185,  188. 


vui       A  SKETCH  OF  THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

found  his  new  religion  no  bar  to  royal  favor,  notwithstanding 
the  unabated  severity  of  the  laws  against  "  popish  recusants." 
His  eldest  daughter,  Letitia  (u  alias  Bridget,"  as  she  is  named 
in  the  record),  remained  a  Protestant,  and  about  1638  was 
confirmed  in  the  Church  of  England,  to  the  great  displeasure 
of  her  father.1  Not  long  afterwards,  while  Sir  Richard  was 
in  attendance  upon  the  king  in  his  journey  to  Scotland,  this 
daughter  Letitia  and  a  younger  sister  Mary,  who  had  been 
placed  under  the  care  of  an  aunt  living  near  London,  were 
detained  by  warrant  from  the  High  Commission  when  about 
to  sail  from  England  for  some  foreign  port.  Their  father 
alleged  that  they  had  embarked  without  his  knowledge,  and 
were  attempting  to  escape  from  his  authority  ;  but  another 
and  more  probable  version  of  the  story  is  given  by  a  well- 
informed  writer  (the  Rev.  George  Gcrrard,  the  gossiping 
London  correspondent  of  the  Earl  of  Straff ord),  in  a  letter 
dated  May  1,1634  :2  — 

"  Sir  Richard  Lashford,8  a  pensioner  in  ordinary  was  sending 
two  of  his  daughters  to  the  nunneries  beyond  the  seas ;  being  to 
take  shipping  in  some  of  the  Kentish  ports,  they  were  stopp'd  and 
sent  back  to  London.  My  Lord's  Grace  of  Canterbury  [Laud] 
being  made  acquainted  with  it  sent  for  the  father,  who  offered  to 
give  caution  that  they  should  not  go  out  of  England;  but  my 
Lord  asked  him,  whether  he  would  engage  himself  that  they 
should  conform  themselves  to  the  religion  of  the  Church  of  Eng 
land,  which  he  refused.  He  asked  then  of  him,  of  what  religion 
he  was?  lie  said,  A  Romish  Catliolick,  and  but  lately  converted. 
He  offered  him  both  the  Oaths,  which  peremptorily  he  refused. 
The  Archbishop  then  told  him,  he  was  not  a  fit  servant  to  be  of 
the  King's  principal  guard,  that  would  not  take  the  oath  of  alle 
giance  unto  his  Majesty.  Since  he  hath  been  brought  before 
the  Lords,  absolutely  put  out  of  his  place,  and  another  sworn 
into  it." 

1  Calendar    of   Brit.    State    Papers  siomilly  written.      Evelyn   (Diary,    ii. 
(Dorncst.  Ser.,  Charles  I.),  1633-1634,  56,  Bonn's  edit.)  mentions,  under  date 
pp.  23,  348,  536,  581.  of  Sept.  13,  1670,  going   "to  visit  Sir 

2  Strafford'a  Letters  and  Dispat.,  i.  Richard  Lashford,  [his]  kinsman."  Else- 
242.  where,  we  find  the  same  name  written 

*  So  the  name  appears  to  have  been  Lccchcforde.  See  note  2  on  the  next 
generally  pronounced,  and  was  occa-  page. 


A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS    LECH  FORD.  ix 

A  few  weeks  afterwards  the  same  correspondent  wrote : l  — 

"  The  Pensioner,  Sir  Richard  Lashford,  was  again  called  before 
the  Lords,  when  the  oath  of  allegiance  was  again  offered  to  him, 
but  lie  utterly  refused  it.  So  order  was  given  to  the  Attorney 
to  indite  him  in  the  King's  Bench  of  a  Premunire ;  hut  being 
brought  thither,  he  took  it  before  the  Judges,  which  if  he  had 
done  before, 'tis  likely  he  had  not  been  put  from  his  Pensioner's 
place." 

In  other  words,  the  influence  of  the  court  upon  the  judges, 
or  a  "  letter  of  grace  and  protection,"  such  as  the  king  about 
this  time  was  accustomed  to  grant  to  Ids  courtiers  who  were 
papists,  would  have  stayed  proceedings  against  him  for 
recusancy. 

In  November,  1634,  Sir  Richard  sold  the  manor  of  Shell- 
wood  and  other  estates  in  Surrey,  and  subsequently  resided 
at  or  near  Dorking  (in  the  same  county),  where  he  died 
Sept.  14,  1671.2 

The  recurrence  of  the  name  of  Thomas  in  several  genera 
tions  of  the  Lechfords  of  Shellwood ;  the  fact  that  the  sur 
name  was  by  no  means  common,  and  does  not  appear  to  have 
been  represented  in  England  by  any  other  family  than  this, 
of  the  rankvof  gentry;  with  other  considerations  which  it  is 
unnecessary  to  mention  here,  —  render  it  highly  probable,  in 
fact  nearly  certain,  that  the  author  of  Plain  Dealing  and  the 
possessor  of  this  now  printed  Note-book  was  of  this  stock, 
and  nearly  related  to  the  last-mentioned  Sir  Richard  Lech- 
ford,  Knt",  1634. 

In  the  address  "  To  the  Reader,"  in  Plain  Dealing,  Thomas 
Lechford  describes  himself  as  "  a  student  or  practise!1  at  law." 
An  entry  in  the  Note-look  3  shows  that  he  had  been  a  member 
of  Clement's  Inn  before  he  came  to  New  England ;  and  he 

1  Straftord's  Letters  and  Dispat.,  i.  heads,  aryci*k     Crest,    on  a  wreath  of 
261.  the  same,  colors,  a  unicorn's  head  erased, 

2  Manning  and  Bray,   i.    586.     The;  arcjmt,  mailed,  bearded,  and  horned  or, 
arms  confirmed  to  "Sir  Richard  Leech-  hearing  on  the  same  a  serpent  proper, 
forde  of  Shelwood,"  Nov.  22,  1605,  by  Howard's    Mined.   Gcncal.    ct   Herald. 
W.   Segar,   Garter,   are  thus  blazoned  :  (Oct.   1866),   p.  54. 

Sabfc,  a  chevron  bet\v.  three  leopards'          3  Sec  2>ost,  p.  117. 


X        A  SKETCH  OF  THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

resumed  his  residence  there  after  his  return  to  London,  in 
1041,  as  the  titlepagc  of  Plain  Lcal'uuj  informs  us.  In  an 
order  of  the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  made  in  1G47, 
he  is  described  as  "  an  ordinary  solicitor  in  England."  ]  It 
does  not  appear  that  lie  was  ever  called  to  the  bar.  The 
Inns  of  Chancery,  of  which  Clement's  was  one,  were  so  called 
"  probably  because  they  were  appropriated  to  such  clerks  as 
chiefly  studied  the  forming  of  writs,  which  was  the  province 
of  the  cursitors,  who  are  officers  of  chancery,  and  such  as 
belong  to  the  courts  of  common  pleas  and  king's  bench."  2  In 
Stowc's  time  they  were  "  chiefly  filled  with  attorneys,  solici 
tors,  and  clerks."  By  an  order  of  the  judges,  April  15,  1G30, 
"  attorneys  and  solicitors,  which  are  but  ministerial  persons 
of  an  inferior  nature,"  though  permitted  to  occupy  chambers 
in  the  inns  of  chancery,  were  excluded  from  the  inns  of 
court,  and  consequently  from  a  call  to  the  bar.3-.  In  his  de 
fence  before  the  court  of  magistrates  at  Boston,  in  Decem 
ber,  1G40,4  Lechford  said  of  himself:  "I  am  no  pleader  by 
nature ;  oratory  I  have  little,  .  .  .  and  if  I  had  never  so 
expert  a  faculty  that  way,  I  should  not  now  use  it,  ...  and 
as  for  the  other  part  of  pleading  which  consisteth  in  chirog- 
raphyf  wherein  I  had  some  little  skill,  I  do  not  desire  to  use 
any  of  that,"  etc. 

When  Hugh  Peters  was  lecturer  in  St.  Sepulchre,  in  Lon 
don,  before  the  persecution  of  Laud  drove  him  to  Rotterdam, 
in  1G29  or  1630,  Lechford  was  one  of  his  hearers,  and  "  hung 
upon  his  ministry,"  as  he  expresses  it  in  a  letter  to  Peters, 
written  in  IGoO.6  Some  years  later,  he  was  in  Ireland,  With 
Sir  Thomas  Wentworth  (afterwards  Earl  of  Straff ord),  then 

1  Mass.  Col.  Records,  ii.  206.  "him  in  the  Common  Picas  oHu:c  (in 

2  Herbert.' a  Inns  of  Court  and  Chan-     Commitni  Banco)  that  ingrosseth  Fines 
eery,  p.  1C9.  in   that  Court  acknowledged  .   .  .  and 

8  Dugdalc's    Origin™   Judicvlcs,    p.  that  writeth  and  dolivoreth  tlu-   Indcn- 

320.  turcs  of  them  unto  the  parties"  (Min- 

4  See  post,  pp.  xxv,  176.  shon,  1027)  ;  and  a  chirograph  was  a 

6  This  word  appears  to  he  used  here  bill,  bond,  or  deed  indented,  written  in 

in  its  more  modern  sense,  for  the  bnsi-  the  maker's  own  hand. 

ness  of  a   draughtsman   and  scrivener.  6  See  post,  p.  29. 

In  the  old  law,  a  chirogmphrr  signified 


A  SKETCH  OF  THOMAS  LECHFORD.        xi 

lord  deputy.  In  what  capacity  lie  went,  or  how  long  he 
remained  there,  docs  not  appear.1  In  1640,  when  he  contem 
plated  departure  from  New  England,  he  wrote  to  one  of  his 
correspondents  that  he  was  desirous  to  return  to  Ireland, 
"  there  to  follow  his  old  profession,  where  he  had  some  hope 
of  friendship."2 

In  the  address  "  To  the  Reader "  of  Plain  Dealing,  he 
alludes  to  the  fact,  "  well  knowne  unto  many,  that  heretofore 
he  suffered  imprisonment,  and  a  kind  of  banishment  .  .  .  for 
some  acts  construed  to  oppose,  and  as  tending  to  subvert 
Episcopacie,  and  the  settled  Ecclesiastical  government  of 
England."  His  offence,  as  we  learn  from  a  couple  of  lines 
in  Mr.  Cotton's  Way  of  Congregational  Churches  cleared,  was 
his  witnessing  against  the  Bishops,  in  soliciting  the  cause  of 
Mr.  Prynne.  In  the  judgment  of  Laud  and  of  the  High 
Commission,  his  crime  could  hardly  have  been  greater,  or 
have  merited  more  severe  punishment.  Prynne,  a  barrister 
of  Lincoln's  Inn,  had  drawn  upon  himself  the  vengeance  of 
the  archbishop,  by  the  publication,  in  1683.  of  Histriomastix. 
He  was  indicted  in  the  Star  Chamber,  found  guilty  of  a  libel, 
and  condemned  to  a  barbarous  punishment,  to  be  followed  by 
imprisonment  for  life,  for  the  crime  of  railing  "  not  only 
against  Stage  Plays  .  .  .  but  farther  in  particular  against 
Hunting,  Publique  Festivals,  Christmas-keeping,  Bonfires  and 
Maypoles,"  etc.3  His  real  offence  (as  Hume  suggests)  was 
probably  that  he  had,  "  in  plain  terms,  blamed  the  hierarchy, 
the  innovations  in  religious  worship,  and  the  new  supersti 
tions  introduced  by  Laud."  Four  years  afterwards,  a  renewal 
of  this  offence  called  for  a.  yet  more  vindictive  prosecution 
in  the  same  court.  On  tin;  14th  of  June,  16->7,  he,  with 
Henry  Burton,  bachelor  of  divinity,  and  John  Bastwick,  a 
physician,  was  tried  and  convicted  of  "  writing  and  pnblish- 

1  Wentworth    was    appointed     lord  timber,  1639.     In  December,   1(539,  lie- 
deputy  in  January,   1632,   but  did  not  was  created  Earl  of  Stratford  and  Lord 
go   to    Ireland    until   July,    1G33.     In  Lieutenant  of  Ireland  (Stratford's  Lct- 
Juno,    1636,    he   came  to  London,  re-  tcrs  and  Disjiafchcs,   i.  63,  84  ;  ii.  430, 
mainod  about  six  months  in  England,  431  ;  Nalson's  Collection,  i.  280). 
and  returned  to  Dublin  in  November.          2  See  post,  p.  159. 
He  was  not  again  in  London  until  Sep-          8  Eushworth,  ii.  220. 


xii  A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

ing  seditious,  schismatical,  and  libellous  books  against  the 
hierarchy  of  the  Church."  They  were  sentenced  to  lose  their 
ears  in  the  pillory,  to  be  fined  £5,000  each  to  the  king,  to 
perpetual  imprisonment  in  three  remote  places  of  the  king 
dom  ;  and  Prynne  to  be  branded  on  both  cheeks  with  the 
letters  S.  L.,  for  a  "  Seditious  Libeller."  This  barbarous 
sentence  was  executed  in  the  palace  yard  at  Westminster, 
June  30 ;  "a  spectacle  no  less  strange  than  sad,  to  see  three 
of  several  professions,  the  noblest  in  the  kingdom,  Divinity, 
Law,  and  Physick,  exposed  at  one  time  to  such  an  ignominious 
punishment,  and  condemned  to  it  by  Protestant  magistrates, 
for  such  tenets  in  religion  as  the  greatest  part  of  Protestants 
in  England  held,  and  all  the  reformed  churches  in  Europe 
maintained."  l  Immediately  after  summons  was  issued  for 
Prynne's  appearance  before  the  court,  he  was  shut  up  close 
prisoner,  refused  the  use  of  pen,  ink,  or  paper,  dnd  not  per 
mitted  to  consult  counsel  until  very  shortly  before  his  trial. 
In  his  speech  to  the  court  he  said :  "  I  was  deserted  of  all 
means  by  which  I  should  have  drawn  my  answer.  ...  I  had 
neither  pen,  ink,  nor  servant  to  do  any  thing  for  me  ;  for  my 
servant  was  then  also  close  prisoner,  under  a  pursuivant's 
hands."  All  who  rendered  the  slightest  service  to  Prynne  or 
his  fellow-offenders  fell  under  condemnation.  "  One  Gard 
ener,"  a  scrivener  or  clerk,  who  wrote  from  Prynne's  dictation 
a  petition  to  his  judges,  was  apprehended,  subjected  to  fourteen 
days  imprisonment,  and  compelled  to  give  a  bond  for  appear 
ance  when  called.  His  counsel,  Holt  and  Tomlyns,  did  not 
dare  to  subscribe  his  answer,  after  it  was  drawn  and  engrossed. 
After  the  execution  of  his  sentence,  some  of  his  friends  vis 
ited  him  in  Chester,  on  his  way  to  his  prison  at  Caernarvon. 
Those  who  had  so  offended  were  summoned  before  the  Privy 
Council,  cited  into  the  High  Commission  at  York,  imprisoned 
and  fined,  and  enjoined  to  make  a  public  recantation.2  It  is 
not  surprising  that  Lechford,  for  "  soliciting "  in  Prynne's 
cause  or  otherwise  assisting  his  defence,  should  have  been 
severely  dealt  with.  Of  his  punishment  we  know  no  more 

l  May's  Hist,  of  the  ParL,  b.  i.  eh.  7.       2  Hargrave'a  State  Trials,  i.  482,  501. 


A    SKETCH   OF   THOMAS  LECHF011D.  xiu 

than  lie  himself  has  told  us, —  that  he  "  suffered  imprisonment 
and  a  kind  of  banishment." 

Leehford  landed  in  Boston  one  year  and  thirteen  days  after 
Prynne's  trial  in  the  Star  Chamber.  Four  years  and  five 
months  after  the  trial  (Nov.  10,  1G41),  he  dated  his  "  Quaeres 
about  Church  government  "  from  his  chambers  in  Clement's 
Inn,  and,  on  the  first  page  of  Plain  Dealing,  speaks  of  "  having 
been  forth  of  his  native  country  almost  for  the  space  of  four 
years  last  past."  The  inference,  from  comparison  of  these 
dates,  seems  to  be,  that  he  left  England  in  the  autumn  or 
winter  of  1637,  but  did  not  then  sail  directly  for  .Boston.  His 
imprisonment  could  not  have  been  of  many  months  duration. 

In  the  letter  to  Hugh  Peters,  before  cited,  he  writes :  — 

"Being  thrown  out  of  my  station  in  England  ...  I  forsook 
preferment  in  a  Prince's  court  that  was  offered  to  me,  who  of 
Christian  princes  is  the  chiefe  for  godliness  (as  I  was  assured), 
Georgius  Ilngotzki,  Prince  of  Transylvania  nnd  Lord  of  Lower 
Hungary,  successor  to  Bethlem  Gabor.  Likewise  the  Lords  of 
Providence  offered  me  place  of  preferment  with  them  which  I 
will  not  name.  Hither  I  have  corne,  and  the  Lord  knows  my 
heart!  fain  would  I  join  with  your  Churches." 

1  have  not  been  able  to  discover  the  time  or  place  of 
Lcchford's  embarkation  for  New  England,  nor  in  which  of 
the  twenty  ships  which  brought  three  thousand  passengers 
to  Massachusetts  in  the  summer  of  1G38  l  he  came.  The 
Note-look  begins  witli  the  date  of  his  arrival :  — 

"Boston    in    New-England,  27°  4'  the   day  of  my  landino- 

1638." 

From  some  allusions  in  his  letters,  especially  a  reference  to 
conversation  "  on  ship-board,"  I  infer  that  he  came  fellow- 
passenger  with  Mr  Edmund  Browne,  afterwards  minister  of 
Sudbury,  and,  perhaps,  with  Emaniicl  Downing,2  the  brother- 
in-law  of  Governor  Winthrop. 

1  Jfiiithrop,  i.  268.  1633  (J/™s.  Records,  i.  236).     Mr.  Snv- 

2  Yet   I    find   elsewhere   no    earlier  ago   had    apparently    overlooked    that 
mention  of  Downing's  arrival  than  that  reference   when  he   wrote  the   note   to 
in  the  records  of  the  Court  of  Sept.  6,  JVinthrop,  i.  274. 


xiv  A    SKETCH   OF  THOMAS  LEG II FORD. 

From  succeeding  pages  of  his  Note-look  we  gather  some  — 
hut  scanty  and  unsatisfactory  —  knowledge  of  his  domestic 
relations.  His  wife  is  mentioned  in  1639  and  afterwards ; 
and,  as  no  evidence  has  been  discovered  of  his  marriage  on 
this  side  of  the  water,  we  infer  that  she  accompanied  him 
from  England  ;  but  lie  nowhere  gives  any  information  of  her 
family,  nor  even  introduces  her  Christian  name.  In  July, 
1G40,1  he  writes:  "I  have  not  yet  here  an  house  of  my  owne 
to  put  my  head  in,  or  any  stock  going."  He  lived  in  a 
house,  or  part  of  a  house,  hired  of  Nathaniel  Micklethwaite, 
of  Boston,  who  was,  I  think,  the  agent  or  factor  in  New  Eng 
land  of  Richard  Hutchinson,  of  London,  and  perhaps  of 
Edward  and  William  Hutchinson  after  their  removal  to 
Rhode  Island. 

It  appears  that  he  paid  his  rent  until  August,  1039,  to 
Samuel  Hutchinson,  and  subsequently  to  Mr.  Micklethwaite, 
whose  signature  appears,  on  a  page  of  the  Note-look,  to  the 
lease  of  "the  chamber  etc.,"  at  £5  per  year,  from  Sept.  1, 
1639.  From  the  fact  that  the  name  of  Thomas  Savage  often 
occurs  as  a  witness  to  instruments  drawn  by  Lechford.  1  con 
jecture  that  he  was  a  near  neighbor,  or  perhaps  a  fellow-tenant 
under  the  same  roof.  Occasional  entries  like  the  following 
give  glimpses  of  the  interior  of  "  the  chamber  etc.,"  and  of 
Lechford's  manner  of  living :  — 


1G39.    June.        "  Borrowed    of   Mr  Stoiy   about   a  month 
since  2"   &  halfe  of   the  best  suger  at 

2*h  the  pound 5»     5d 

April.       "  Recd  of  Mr.  Keayne  for  a  silver  laced  coate 

and  a  gold  wrought  cap 2l     10* 

May.  "Received  of  Mr.  George  Story  4  yards 
and  halfe  a  quarter  of  tuft  Holland  to 
make  my  wife  a  wastcoate  at  2"  8d  per 

yarde 11* 

1640.    Jan.  31.   "  I  payd  Nathaniel  Ileaton  for  full  of  writ 
ings  &  cutting  wood 5' 

Feb.  1.  "  I  payd  John  Ilurd,  delivered  to  his  wife 
by  Sara  our  mayd,  for  making  my 
wife's  gowne 89 

1  Plain  Dealing,  p.  69. 


A   SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECHFORD.  xv 

1640.     Feb.  1.    "I  payil  Thomas  Marshall  before  hand  for 
wood,  delivered  by  my  wife  to  his  wife 
in  the  10  moneth  last  past  [Dec.  16:50]   £1 
Since  which  time  I  had  of  him  6  loads 
of  wood  at  5s  so  I  owe  him       ....  105 

Jan.  12.  "  Received  of  Mr.  Keayne  61'  of  Spanish  to 
bacco  upon  account.  And  1  owe  him 
1  load  of  wood,  a  good  load. 
"I  payd  Mr.  Burton  for  malt,  cheese  and 
irons,  £1.  —  and  owe  him  8s  O.1  —  in  10th 
[month]  last. 

1611.  "Mary    Sherman    came   to    my    wife    the 

twelveth  day  of    Aprill,    1641." 

Almost  from  the  hour  of  his  landing  at  Boston,  he  was 
regarded  with  distrust  by  those  whose  influence  prevailed  in 
state  and  church.  First,  because  of  his  profession;  for  to 
"  some  of  the  magistrates,"  and  doubtless  to  Governor  AVin- 
tlirop  himself,  the  employment  of  "  lawyers  to  direct  men  in 
their  causes  "  seemed  more  objectionable  than  the  custom  of 
obtaining  advice  from  the  judges  on  an  ex  parte  statement 
before  the  public  hearing  of  the  cause.1  Winthrop  himself, 
Bcllingham,  Humphrey,  Dudley,  Downing,  —  and  pcrjiaps  Pel- 
ham  and  Bradstrcet,  —  had  been  students  of  law  in  England ; 
but  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic  their  legal  knowledge  was 
not  called  into"  requisition  except  as  it  contributed  to  qualify 
them  for  seats  in  the  Court  of  Magistrates  or  as  legislators 
for  the  new  colony  ;  "  no  advocate  being  allowed,"  2  and  the  ex 
ercise  of  the  profession  of  an  attorney  being  discountenanced 
so  far  as  possible  without  absolute  interdiction. 

But  Lechford  was  not  only  professionally  hut  doctrinally 
objectionable.  Though  he  came  to  New  England,  as  he  says, 
with  a  disposition  to  "lay  aside  all  by-respects,  to  join  with 
the  Church  here,"  "  he  could  not  be  satisfied  in  diverse  partic 
ulars,"  and  "  desired  to  open  his  mind  in  some  material  things 
of  weight  concerning  the  Christian  faith  "  wherein  he  differed 
from  the  received  belief  of  the  Massachusetts  churches.  He 
was  not  long  in  giving  to  these  points  of  difference  more  than 

1    Winthrop,  ii.  36.     "  No  judge  can  arid  of  necessity,  as  it  were,  undertak- 

be  wise  enough  to  decide  always  with  ing  the   cause  of  one,   before    issuing 

satisfaction  to  both   parties,"   observes  process." 

Mr.  Savage,    "  after   privately  hearing,  2  Ibid. 


xvi  A    SKETCH   OF   THOMAS   LECH  FORD. 

a  sufficient  prominence-.  On  his  passage  hitlier,  he  had  dis 
cussed  them  with  his  fellow-passengers  ;  and  before,  or  soon 
after,  his  arrival,  lie  made  a  written  statement  of  his  opinions 
and  the  arguments  by  which  he  sustained  them,  and  placed 
the  paper  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Downing.1  These  opinions, 
which  he  tells  us  he  k*did  not  lightly  or  hastily  take  up,  hut 
upon  good  grounds  and  mature  deliberation,  long  before  he 
ventured  to  betake  himself  into  these  parts  of  the  world,"2 
involved  what  magistrates  and  elders  held  to  be  fundamental 
errors,  and  such  as  prevented  his  reception  to  church  fel 
lowship.  These  errors,  as  stated  by  Mr.  Cotton,  were : 
"  1.  That  the  Antichrist  described  in  the  Revelation  was  not 
yet  come,  nor  any  part  of  that  Prophecy  yet  fulfilled  from 
the  4th  chapter  to  the  end.  2.  That  the  Apostolick  func 
tion  was  not  yet  ceased ;  but  that  there  still  ought  to  be 
such,  who  should  by  their  transcendent  Authority  govern  all 
churches."  3 

Lechford  himself  conceived  that  his  opinions  on  these  con 
troverted  points  "  might  be  held,  or  not  held,  salva  fide  "  and 
without  impediment  to  church  fellowship  with  those  of  oppo 
site  belief.  Indeed  modern  orthodoxy,  even  of  the  most  rigid 
type,  would  hardly  insist  on  the  identification  of  the  pope  of 
Rome  with  the  prophetical  antichrist,  and  a  denial  of  the  per 
manency  of  the  apostolic  function,  as  essential  prerequisites 
to  church  communion,  or  for  the  elective  franchise.  But  to 
the  elders  of  the  Bay,  in  1638, —  when  the  churches  had  not 
yet  escaped  the  dangers  of  Antinomianism  nor  been  thoroughly 
purged  of  all  the  eighty -two  errors  condemned  by  the  synod  of 
the  year  previous, —  every  deviation  from  the  established  creed 
was  matter  of  grave  importance.  Moreover,  although  Lechford 
professed  a  disinclination  to  controversy,  he  certainly  took  no 
great  pains  to  avoid  it ;  so  that  before  he  had  been  many 
weeks  in  the  Colony  his  peculiar  views  were  somewhat  widely 
made  known,  not  only  through  oral  discussions,  but  by  means 
of  two  or  three  manuscript  volumes  of  his  composition,  which 

1  Letter  to  Eilmnnd  Browne.     See  post,  p.  28. 

2  Letter  to  Hugh  Peters.     See  post,  p.  30. 

9   Way  of  Contjr.  Churches  cleared,  pt.  i.  p.  71. 


A    SKETCH   OF   THOMAS  LECIIFOHD. 

lie  had  tendered  for  the  perusal  of  some  of  the  jealous  guar 
dians  of  orthodoxy  in  the  churches. 

Tn  the  letter  to  Hugh  Peters,  before  quoted,  Lechford  writes  : 
"  I  showed  you  my  books  :  you  had  not  leisure  to  peruse  them. 
1  likewise,  long  before,  showed  my  main  book  to  Mr.  Cotton. 
lie  had  not  leisure  to  read  it;  and  the  first  draught  of  that 
Of  Prophetic,  it  lay  in  his  house  at  least  live  weeks."  Peters 
had  too  much  work  before  him,  in  Ne\v  England  and  Old,  for 
wasting  his  time  over  the  crude  speculations  of  an  honest  but 
narrow-minded  enthusiast ;  and  Mr.  Cotton  was  perhaps  less 
zealous  in  heresy-hunting,  if  not  more  tolerant  of  error,  than 
before  his  own  narrow  escape  from  the  censure  of  the  synod 
of  1037  for  an  imputed  taint  of  Ilutchinsonianism.  If  Lech- 
ford  had  gone  no  farther  to  look  for  readers  and  provoke 
criticism,  he  might  have  fared  better,  —  might  have  found  a 
way  at  last  to  the  fellowship  of  the  churches  and  the  favor 
of  magistrates,  and  have  lived  and  died  in  Massachusetts,  in 
comfortable  circumstances  and  with  a  more  favorable  opinion 
of  "  rigid  separations "  and  u  clectorie  ways  "  than  he  has 
expressed  in  Plain  Dealing.  But,  in  an  evil  hour,  he  sought 
counsel  of  the  deputy-governor,  Thomas  Dudley,  a  man  whose 
conscientiousness  was  as  morbid,  his  vision  as  narrow,  and 
his  prejudices  as  strong  as  Lechford's  own;  who  wns  so 
zealous  for  the  purity  of  the  faith  that  he  magnified  to  a 
mountain  every  mole-hill  of  error,  and  saw  in  the  toleration  of 
new  opinions  a  "  cockatrice's  egg," 

"  To  poison  all  with  heresy  and  vice." 

"After  the  court  here  ended,"  wrote  Lechford  to  Hugh  Peters, 
in  January,  1639,  "I  delivered  [my  book]  Of  Prophesie  to  Mr. 
Deputy,  to  advise  thereof  ns  a  private  friend,  as  a  godly  man  and 
a  member  of  the  Church,  whether  it  were  fit  to  be  published. 
The  next  news  I  hud  was,  that  at  first  dash  he  accused  me  of 
heresy,  and  wrote  to  Mr.  Governor  that  my  book  was  fitter  to  be 
burned.  .  .  ." 

The  Court  to  which  Lechford  refers  was  probably  the  Quarter 
Court  held  at  Boston,  Dec.  4,  1638.  On  the  eleventh  of  the 
same  month  Dudley  wrote  from  Roxbury  to  Winthrop :  — 

b 


xviii  A    SKETCH   OF  THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

"  SIR.  Since  my  cominge  home,  I  have  read  over  Mr.  Lecli- 
ford's  booke,  and  fimle  the  scope  thereof  to  be  erroneous  and  dan 
gerous,  if  not  heretical!,  according  to  my  conception  —  His  tenet 
beinge  that  the  office  of  apostleship  doth  still  continew  and  ought 
soe  to  doe  till  Cri.st's  coining,  and  that  a  Church  hath  now  power 
to  make  apostles  as  our  {Saviour  Crist  had  when  hee  was  hoerc. 
Other  things  there  are,  but  1  pray  you  consider  of  this,  and  the 
inseparable  consequences  of  it :  I  heare  that  Mr.  Cotton  and  Mr. 
Rogers  know  somethinge  of  the  matter,  or  man,  with  whome  you 
may  if  you  please  conferre :  I  heare  also  that  hee  favoureth  Mr. 
Lentall l  and  hath  so  exprest  himselfe  since  Mr.  Lentall  was  ques- 
tyoned  by  the  ministers:  It  is  easyer  stoppinge  a  breach  when  it 
begins,  then  afterwards :  wee  sawe  our  error  in  sufferinge  Mrs. 
Huchinson  too  longe.  I  have  sent  you  the  booke  herewith  that  in 
stead  of  puttinge  it  to  the  presse  as  hee  desireth  it  may  rather  be 
putt  into  the  tire  as  I  desire:  But  I  pray  you  lett  him  know  that 
I  have  sent  the  booke  to  you,  that  after  you  have  read  it  (which  I 
think  you  said  you  had  not  yet  done)  it  may  be  restored  to  him. 
.  .  .  I  suppose  the  booke  to  be  rather  coppyed  out  then  con- 
tryved  by  Mr.  Lechford,  hee  beinge  I  thinck,  not  soe  good  a 
grecyan  and  hebritian  as  the  author  undertakes  to  be."  2 

Either  Winthrop's  zeal  was  less  lively,  or  he  saw  less  danger 
in  the  new  heresy  and  its  "  inseparable  consequences  "  than 
his  colleague.  Before  the  end  of  the  month  Dudley  wrote 


"For  Mr.  Lechford  and  his  booke,  you  say  nothing,  and  I  have 
since  heard  that  the  worst  opynion  in  his  book  (which  I  thinck  I 
shall  proove  to  be  heresy)  is  taken  upp  by  others.  Nowe  seeing 
that  this  is  the  way  Sathan  invades  us  by  (viz.  new  opynions  and 
heresyes)  it  behooves  us  to  be  the  more  vigilant,  and. to  stirr  upp 
our  zeale  and  stop])  breaches  at  the  beginninge,  least  forbearance 
hurt  us  as  it  did  before."  3 

Lech  ford's  character  appears  in  a  very  favorable  light  in 
his  comment  on  the  course  pursued  by  Mr.  Dudley.  After 

1  Sec  Plain  Dealing,  pp.  22,  41,  and  taken    by    Kobert    Keayne,    have   been 

notes  78,  144.    Mr.  Lentluill  was  "  quea-  preserved. 

tioned  by  the  ministers,"  Dec.  11,  1638,  2  Proceed.    Mass.    Hist.    Soe.,   1855- 

at  a  conference  (held  at  the  house  of  1858,   pp.  311,  312. 

Captain  Israel  Stoughton,  in  Dorches-  3  Dudley    to    "\Vinthrop,    Dec.    29, 

ter),  of  which  some  manuscript  notes,  1638,  in  4  Mass.  Hist.  CulL,  vii.  111. 


A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECHF011D.  xix 

disavowing  the  chief  heresy  imputed  to  him,  "  though  indeed 
my  words  might  have  been  so  strained,"  he  adds :  — 

"I  speak  according  to  my  light,  and  dare  do  no  otherwise.  If 
hotly  [pressed  by  V]  Mr.  Deputy,  I  impute  it  to  his  zeal  against 
errors:  I  am  not  angry  with  him  for  it.  But  when  I  saw  seven 
shepherds  and  eight  principal  men  called  out  against  me,  tfis  if  I 
were  an  Assyrian  [the  allusion  is  to  Micah  v.  5],  I  thought  there 
might  be  something  in  me  to  be  reproved,  and  that  it  concerned 
me  to  look  about  me.  I  dealt  plainly.  .  .  .  Thereupon  my  book 
was  referred  to  the  consideration  of  the  Elders." 

This  reference  to  the  elders  was  the  occasion  of  his  address 
ing  to  Hugh  Peters,  Jan.  3,  1638-1039,  the  letter  from  which 
several  extracts  have  been  introduced.  In  an  interview  with 
some  of  the  magistrates  he  had  "  intimated  a  word  of  [his] 
other  main  book,"  treating  of  Antichrist  and  of  the  millennial 
kingdom  of  Christ.  "  They  all  now  press  me  to  produce  that. 
I  told  thorn  it  was  not  ready  for  their  view :  1  must  fair  write 
it,  and  alter  some  things :  yet  at  length,  upon  promise  that  I 
should  have  it  again  (for  if  it  be  no  error,  I  will  not  part  with 
it  for  £100)  I  promised  to  let  them  see  it.  I  have  accord 
ingly  left  itv.to  Mr.  Deputy  and  the  Governor  (who  also 
desired  to  see  it)."  This  book,  with  the  one  Of  Prophesie, 
was  to  be  submitted  to  an  assembly  of  the  Elders ;  and  Lech- 
ford  writes  to  request  Mr.  Peters  that  he  would  himself  be 
one  of  the  council,  "  Mr.  Ward  another,  and  Mr.  Parker  of 
Newbury  ;  and  that  Mr.  Norton  and  Mr.  Phillips  may  likewise 
be  called ; "  who  should  "  soundly  and  maturely  advise  and 
consult  of  the  matter,"  with  "all  lawfull  favour"  to  the 
writer. 

I  find  no  subsequent  mention  of  this  council,  unless  it  be 
referred  to  by  Mr.  Cotton,  in  the  passage  already  cited  (from 
the  Way  of  the  Congregational  Churches  cleared,  pt.  i.  p.  71), 
where  Lechford  is  said  to  have  been  "  dealt  withall  both  in 
conference  and  (according  to  his  desire)  in  writing."  Neither 
mode  of  dealing  was  effectual  to  convince  him  of  error,  nor 
would  the  elders  admit  that  his  opinions  might  be  held  u  salva 
fide"  So  he  was  compelled  to  remain  without  the  church ; 


XX  A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECH  FORD. 

and  exclusion  from  church  fellowship  carried  with  it  exclu 
sion  from  the  privileges  of  a  freeman  and  disqualification  for 
civil  office. 

His  professional  ability  was  not  inconsiderable ;  but  the 
field  for  its  exercise  was  restricted.  "  Kept  from  all  place  of 
preferment  in  the  Commonwealth,"  he  was  u  forced  to  get  his 
living  by  writing  petty  things,  which  scarce  found  him  bread," 
as  he  complained  to  his  friends  in  England,  after  two  years' 
residence  here.1  Though  his  imputed  heterodoxy  did  not  pre 
vent  his  occasional  employment,  by  those  of  sounder  faith, 
as  a  conveyancer,  scrivener,  or  draughtsman,  his  receipts  for 
such  professional  services  were  pitifully  small.  His  Note-look 
contains  not  only  the  record  of  every  instrument  drawn  by 
him  while  he  was  in  this  country,  but  an  account  of  the  com 
pensation  he  received ;  from  which  it  appears  that  his  profes 
sional  income,  for  the  two  years  after  his  arrival,  was  a  little 
more  than  £41 ;  about  £9  of  which  was  in  debts  remaining 
unpaid  in  July,  1640. 

In  June,  1639,  when  he  had  been  nearly  a  year  in  Boston, 
he  presented  to  the  General  Court  certain  propositions2  for 
the  regulation  of  civil  actions  and  for  the  recording  of  judi 
cial  proceedings.  He  had  perhaps  been  encouraged  to  hope 
—  for  he  states  that  his  propositions  were  "  made  upon  re 
quest  "  —  that  the  Court,  notwithstanding  his  ineligibility  to 
public  office,  would  employ  his  services  in  the  humbler  capa 
city  of  clerk  or  public  notary,  and  provide  for  his  support  by 
giving  him  work  to  do  for  which  his  studies  and  experience 
peculiarly  qualified  him.  His  application  was  not  successful. 
"  The  Court  was  willing  to  bestow  employment  upon  me,"  he 
writes,  "  hut  they  said  to  me  that  they  could  not  do  it  for  fear 
of  offending  the  churches,  because  of  my  opinions"  Where 
upon  he  thought  good  to  propose  to  them  certain  propositions, 
which  the  reader  will  find  set  down  at  large  in  the  Note-look, 
p.  58. 

It  was  in  response  to  this  application,  probably,  that  he  was 
"dealt  withal,  according  to  his  desire,  in  writing,"  as  Mr. 
Cotton  has  mentioned.  Whether  or  not  the  Court  gave  favor- 

1  riuin  Dculi,i'j,  i .  GO.  2  Printed  in  Plain  Dealing,  pp.  29,  30. 


A    SKETCH   OF   THOMAS  LEG II FORD.  xxi 

able  consideration  to  the  proposition  by  which  Lech  ford  en 
gaged  himself  to  refrain  from  controversy  for  twelve  months, 
on  consideration  of  receiving  employment,  does  not  appear. 
But  whatever  good  intentions  in  his  behalf  the  magistrates,  or 
some  of  them,  may  have  had,  were  counteracted  by  his  own 
imprudence. 

In  the  summer  of  1639  he  was  employed  by  William  Cole 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  for  the  prosecution  of  an  action  against 
her  brother,  Francis  Doughty,  of  Tauntoii,  whom  she  charged 
with  having  defrauded  her  of  her  marriage-portion  and  her 
share  in  their  fathers  estate.  To  the  preparation  of  this  case 
the  Note-look  shows  that  Lcehford  gave  much  attention.1  On 
the  trial  before  a  jury,  at  the  Quarter  Court  in  September,  his 
zeal  for  his  clients  betrayed  him  into  an  indiscretion  (to  use 
no  harsher  term)  which  subjected  him  to  the  deserved  censure 
of  the  court,  and  gave  occasion — not  wholly  displeasing  to  the 
magistrates,  perhaps  —  to  prohibit  him  from  the  exercise  of  the 
profession  of  an  advocate,  to  which,  as  has  already  been  inti 
mated,  he  does  not  appear  to  have  had  any  legitimate  title. 
The  order  of  the  Court  is  in  these  words  :  — 

"Mr.  Thomas  Lcehford,  forgoing  to  the  Jewry  &  pleading  wth 
them  out  of  Court,  is  debarred  from  pleading  any  man's  causo 
hereafter,  unlesse  his  o \vne,  and  admonished  not  to  prsume  to  med 
dle  beyond  what  hee  slmlbee  called  to  by  the  Courte."  2 

Lcehford  submitted  in  a  good  spirit  to  this  censure.  A  fow 
days  after  receiving  it,  he  presented  to  the  General  Court  a 
petition  for  pardon,  with  a  frank  confession  of  his  fault.  Of 
this  petition  he  has  preserved  a  copy  in  his  Note-look  (p.  117), 
which  is  well  worth  reading,  as  characteristic  of  the  man. 
His  submission  was  probably  accepted  by  the  Court,  and  he 
was  suffered  to  return  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  as  an 
attorney,  which,  under  the  restrictions  imposed  upon  it,  prom 
ised  little  improvement  of  his  "  low  and  poor  estate." 

In  the  autumn  and  winter  of  1G89  he  received  some  slight 
assistance,  in  the  way  of  employment,  from  the  magistrates. 

1  See  post,  p.  171.  ~  Mass.  Col.  Records,  i.  270. 


A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

For  Mr.  Endicott,  he  had  written  "  The  Court  booke l  at  16d  a 
sheete,  102  sheetes,"  and  received  £6  16s.  some  time  in  June 
or  July.  In  November,  after  the  surrender  to  Massachusetts 
of  the  Dover  patent,  he  wrote  "  For  the  Country:  The  writing 
of  receipt  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Dover  arid  Kittery  and  Oyster 
River  into  the  Protection  of  this  Jurisdiction  :  The  Commis 
sion  to  Mr.  Bradstreete  for  those  places  :  The  institution  and 
limitation  of  the  Councell  of  this  Jurisdiction :  Another  of 
the  same :  Charta  libertatis :  The  Act  of  the  publique  and 
private  tenure  of  land  :  The  division  of  the  Plantation  into 
shires  :  "  for  all  which  he  received  the  sum  of  eleven  shillings.2 
Not  long  afterwards  he  was  employed  in  the  more  important 
task  of  transcribing  the  "  brcviat  of  laws,"  subsequently 
adopted,  with  some  amendments,  as  the  Body  of  Liberties.3 
While  engaged  in  this  work,  —  which  in  his  hands  we  may 
be  sure  was  something  more  than  that  of  mere*  transcription, 
—  he  could  not  resist  the  temptation,  or,  as  he  chose  to  express 
it,  "  he  conceived  it  his  duty,  in  discharge  of  his  conscience," 
and  "  as  Amicus  curiae,  with  all  faithfulness  to  present "  to 
the  Governor  and  magistrates  his  objections  to  certain  laws 
proposed  to  be  embodied  in  the  code. 

In  May,  1640,  in  "  a  paper  intended  for  the  honored  John 
Winthrop,"  he  expressed  his  convictions  of  the  advantages  and 
the  necessity  of  submission  to  the  King,  and  acknowledgment 
of  the  authority  of  the  Church  of  England, "  if  it  be  but  by  way 
of  advice  ; "  frankly  confessing  that  for  himself  he  "  disclaimed 
Parker"  and  "inclined  to  Hooker  and  Jewel  as  to  govern 
ment."4  After  this  paper  was  drawn,  Dudley  was  elected 

1  I  cannot  learn  that  this  copy  of  the  at  Chavlestown,  Aug.  23,   1630,   to  the 

'*  Court  Book  "  has  been  preserved.     It  end  of  the   Quarter  Court   at    Boston, 

was   undoubtedly  a  transcript    of    the  June  4,  1639,  making  202  pages  (55-256 

Colony  Records,  rnadt  for  Mr.  Endicott's  of  the  first  volume   of  the   Manuscript 

own  use  or  for  that  of  the  Salem  Quarter  Records  of  the  Governor  and  Company  ; 

Court.     A.  C.  Ooodell,  Esq.,  of  Salem,  pp.  73-268  of  the  printed  Records),  or 

to  whom  I  applied  in   the  hope  of  dis-  101  folios, 

covering  some  trace  of  this  volume,  calls  2  See  post,  p.  139. 

my  attention  to  the  agreement  of  the  8  See  Plain  Scaling,  pp.  27  and  31. 

number  of  "sheets"  with  the  folios  of  *  Plain  Dealing,  pp.  34-37. 
the  Colony  Records,  from  the  first  court 


A    SKETCH   OF   THOMAS  LEG II FORD.  xxiii 

governor  ;  and  it  is  not  likely  that  Lechford  transferred  to 
him  the  good  advice  prepared  for  Governor  Winthrop. 

The  year  during  which  he  had  conditionally  promised  to 
keep  silence,  u  saving  to  the  Elders,''  on  matters  of  difference 
between  himself  and  the  churches,  had  now  expired.  lie  had 
been  "  seriously  dealt  withal,"  and  had  been  indulged  in  his 
desire  for  "  reasons  in  writing."  l  But  his  hope  that  u  in  some 
good  time  the  reverend  Elders  and  himself  might  come  to  a 
perfect,  or  at  least  a  fair  understanding,"  was  less  and  less 
likely  to  be  realized.  lie  was  becoming  more  dissatisfied  with 
the  condition  of  affairs  in  New  England,  both  in  church  and 
commonwealth.  In  July,  1640,  he  wrote  to  England:  "I 
know  my  friends  desire  to  know  whether  ]  am  yet  of  any 
better  mind  than  some  of  my  actions  about  the  time  of  my 
coming  away  did  show  me  to  be.  I  do  profess  that  I  am  of 
this  mind  and  judgment,  I  thank  God  :  that  Christians  cannot 
live  hapily  without  Bishops,  as  in  England,  nor  Englishmen 
without  a  king.  Popular  elections  indanger  people  with  war 
and  a  multitude  of  other  inconveniences."2  Of  the  people  of 
Massachusetts  he  says,  "I  am  not  of  them,  in  church  or  com 
monweal.  Some  bid  me  be  gone  :  others  labor  with  me  to  stay 
fearing  my  return  will  do  their  cause  wrong ;  and  loth  am  I 
to  heare  of  stay,  but  am  plucking  up  stakes  with  as  much  speed 
as  I  may,  if  so  be  T  may  be  so  happy  as  to  arrive  in  Ireland, 
there  at  least  to  follow  my  old  profession,"  etc.  "  Some  silence 
my  letters  and  will  not  dispute  with  me,  I  think  either  out  of 
distrust  of  me,  or  else  despaire  of  their  cause ;  some  cry  out  of 
nothing  but  Antichrist  and  the  Man  of  Sin.  .  .  .  But  few  know 
my  full  mind  in  some  things  of  weight  whereof  I  do  professe  I 
was  ignorant  and  misled  in  England.  You  may  wonder  how 
I  am  now  reformed,"  etc. 

"  I  never  intended,"  he  writes,  "  openly  to  oppose  the  godly 
here  in  anything  I  thought  they  mistookc."  3  If  he  maintained 
some  reserve  in  the  expression  of  his  "full  mind  in  some 
things,"  he  certainly  made  no  secret  of  his  dislike  of  "  electory 

1  Sec  ante,  p.  xx;  an  J  Plain  Dealing,  2  Scenes/,  p.  159,  and  cf.  Plain  Deal 
p.  77.  ing,  pp.  68,  G9. 

3  See  Plain  Dealing,  p.  77. 


xxiv  A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS   LECHFORD. 

ways  "  and  of  Congregationalism,  as  is  evident  from  the  advice 
which  he  proffered  to  the  Governor  and  magistrates,  and  from 
his  queries  propounded  to  the  Elders  of  Boston,  which  chal 
lenged  a  discussion  of  the  nature  and  constitution  of  a  church 
and  tho  validity  of  congregational  ordination. 

That  his  opinions,  and  his  zeal  in  advocating  them,  made 
him  obnoxious  to  the  magistrates  as  well  as  to  the  Elders  is 
no  matter  of  surprise.  When  the  course  which  had  been 
taken  with  others  who  had  similarly  offended  is  considered,— 
when  it  is  remembered  that  not  only  had  teachers  of  doubtful 
orthodoxy,  like  Roger  Williams  and  Wheelwright  and  Mrs. 
Hutchinson,  been  banished  from  the  jurisdiction,  but  laymen 
of  influence  and  position,  like  Stoughton  and  Aspinwall  and 
Coggeshall,  when  suspected  of  a  taint  of  heresy  or  "  sedition," 
had  been  as  summarily  and  as  severely  dealt  with,  —  the  leni 
ency  shown  to  Lechford  is  remarkable.  It  could'  hardly  have 
been  from  motives  of  policy  —  only  his  own  vanity  could  have 
suggested  that  it  was  from  "  fear  his  return  would  do  their 
cause  wrong" — that  he  was  suffered  to  remain  so  long  un 
molested.  It  must  rather  have  been  owing  to  a  conviction  of 
his  honesty,  his  conscientiousness,  and  possibly  to  his  lack  of 
influence  and  the  slight  danger  of  infection  by  his  teachings. 
It  would  not  be  easy  to  find  in  the  first  fifty  years  of  the  his 
tory  of  Massachusetts  another  instance  of  so  great  tolerance 
of  opinions  so  radically  opposed  as  were  Lcchford's  to  the 
views  of  the  founders  of  the  colony,  and  so  subversive  of  the 
constitution  of  civil  government  and  of  the  church  polity  they 
sought  to  establish  in  New  England.  He  was  neither  a  free 
man  nor  a  church  member,  not  even  a  householder ;  in  the 
eye  of  the  law  he  was  merely  a  "  transient  person,"  who 
might  be  driven  away  with  slight  ceremony.  His  calling  made 
him  unwelcome;  his  creed,  in  the  judgment  of  others  besides 
Thomas  Dudley,  was  "  erroneous  and  dangerous,  if  not  hereti 
cal."  Ue  questioned  the  validity  of  any  non-episcopal  ordina 
tion,  and  saw,  in  the  exercise  by  the  people  of  the  right  to 
elect  their  own  rulers,  the  root  of  all  evil.  He  would  not 
acknowledge  "  a  church  without  a  bishop,"  and  did  not  hesi 
tate  to  express  his  belief  that  all  was  going  wrong,  and  must 


A    SKETCH   OF   THOMAS  LEC11FORD.  xxv 

go  worse  in  "  a  state  without  a  king."  In  the  complacent  con 
sciousness  of  his  own  clearer  light  and  well-grounded  con 
victions,  he  felt  it  to  be  his  duty  to  point  out  to  Governor 
Winthrop,  to  Mr.  Wilson,  and  to  Mr.  Cotton  the  errors 
wherein  through  ignorance  they  had  gone  astray,  and  were 
misleading  others.1  That  he  should  have  been  permitted  for 
two  years  nnd  a  half  to  hold  his  course  unchecked,  and  that  his 
unconcealed  and  somewhat  aggressive  dissent  should  have  so 
long  escaped  censure,  proves  that  the  founders  of  Massachu 
setts  were  not  incapable  of  the  exercise  of  toleration,  even 
though  they  might  not  give  it  a  place  among  the  virtues. 

At  length,  however,  their  patience  was  exhausted.  In  Sep 
tember,  1640,  for  a  new  offence,  with  which  his  questioning  of 
the  Boston  Elders  may  have  had  something  to  do,  he  was  pre 
sented  by  the  grand  jury  and  summoned  before  the  Court  of 
Magistrates  in  December.  When  the  General  Court  was  in 
session  (Oct.  7)  they  were  "  pleased  to  say  something  to  him, 
as  for  good  counsel  about  some  tenets  and  disputations  which 
he  had  held  ;  advising  him  to  bear  himself  in  silence  and  as 
became  him."  A  few  weeks  afterwards  he  writes  in  his  Note 
book  :  "  I  am  summoned  to  appear  in  Court  to-morrow,  being 
the  first  of  10th,  1640.  The  Lord  God  direct  me,"  etc.  In  a 
letter  to  England,  dated  December  19,  he  mentions  having  been 
"  lately  taken  at  advantage  and  brought  before  the  magistrates, 
before  whom,  giving  a  quiet  and  peaceable  answer  [he]  was 
dismissed  with  favour,"  etc.2  Of  this  answer  he  preserved  a 
copy,  or  perhaps  the  original  draft,  in  shorthand,  in  his  Note 
book.  Confessing  that  he  had  "  too  far  meddled  in  some  matters 
of  church  government  and  the  like,  which  [he  was]  not  suffi 
cient  to  understand  or  declare,"  he  threw  himself  on  the  mercy 

*   "O    mercy,    mercy,    from    all    the         2  "Our  cliiefc   difference   was   about 
powers  of  mercy  in  heaven  and  earth  "-  the  foundation  of  the  Church  and  Min- 
he  wrote  in  1640 —  "to  such  as  sin  of  istery,  and  what  rigid  separations  may 
ignorance  !  "     And  against  this  he  mod-  tend  unto,  what  is  to  be  feared,  in  case 
estly   noted   in   the   margin:    "In    the  the  most  of  the  people  here  should  re 
number  of  the  ignorant  I  hold  myself,  main  unbaptized ;  etc."  (Plain  Dealing, 
and  Mr.    Barton,  Mr.  Prynne,  and  Dr.  p,  77). 
Bastwick,  and  a  multitude  more  "  (post, 
p.  159). 


xx vi  A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

of  the  Court.     His  submission  was  accepted,  and  the  record 
shows  that  — 

"Mr.  Thomas  Lechford,  acknowledging  hee  had  overshot  him- 
eelfe,  and  is  sorry  for  it,  promising  to  attend  his  calling,  and  not  to 
meddle  wth  controversies,  was  dismissed."1 

Mr.  Savage,  in  a  note  toWinthrop  (vol.  ii.  p.  36),  cites  this 
as  a  "  curiosity  in  legislative  and  judicial  economy."  He  was 
under  the  impression  that  the  engagement  "  not  to  meddle 
with  controversies  "  was  inconsistent  with  the  promise  "  to 
attend  his  calling,"  since  "  the  very  calling  by  which  he  sought 
to  earn  his  bread  was  that  of  an  attorney."  The  inconsist 
ency  disappears  on  learning  from  Lechford  himself  that  he 
was  brought  before  the  Quarter  Court  on  the  presentment  of  a 
grand  jury,  and  that  the  controversies  in  which  he  had  "  too 
far  meddled  "  concerned  "  matters  of  church  government  and 
the  like,"  —"the  foundation  of  the  church  and  the  ministry, 
and  what  rigid  separations  may  tend  unto."  He  acknowl 
edged  his  fault,  promised  amendment,  and  the  Court  dismissed 
the  complaint.  Lechford  certainly  did  not  feel  that  he  had 
been  hardly  dealt  by.  He  avers  that  he  was  "  dismissed  with 
favour,  and  respect  promised  him  by  some  of  the  chief e,  for 
the  future."  2 

Some  time  in  1640  he  was  enrolled  in-  the  "Military 
Company  of  Massachusetts,"  afterwards  the  "  Ancient  and 
Honorable  Artillery."  He  perhaps  owed  his  election  to  his 
intimacy  with  Thomas  Savage,  one  of  the  original  members 
of  this  company,  and  to  the  friendship  of  the  captain,  Robert 
Keayne. 

Among  those  with  whom  Lechford  appears  to  have  been 
on  very  friendly  terms  was  George  Story,  "  a  young  merchant 
of  London,"  as  Winthrop  calls  him,  who  lodged  in  the  house 
of  Richard  Sherman,  and  who  was  the  chief  instigator  of  the 
proceedings  against  Captain  Kcaync  in  the  famous  "  sow 
case."  For  six  or  seven  years  from  its  commencement  in 
1636,  this  "  great  business  upon  a  very  small  occasion " 

1  Mass.  Col.  Rec.t  i.  310.  2  Plain  Dealing,  p.  77. 


A   SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECH  FORD.  xxvil 

divided  the  people  of  Boston  into  factions,  disturbed  the 
peace  of  the  churches,  had  an  influence  in  elections,  awak 
ened  a  "  democratical  spirit "  throughout  the  colony,  and  at 
last  (in  1643)  came  near  bringing  about  a  radical  change  in 
the  constitution  of  the  General  Court,  by  depriving  the  magis 
trates  of  the  exercise  of  a  negative  voice  on  the  action  of  the 
house  of  deputies.1 

In  1641  the  quarrel  had  not  yet  reached  its  height,  but  it 
had  already  assumed  formidable  proportions.  That  Lechford 
should  become  implicated  in  it  was  inevitable.  The  only 
attorney  in  Boston,  and  the  common  friend  of  Story  and  of 
Keayne,  he  received  the  confidences  of  both  parties,  tried  his 
hand  at  peacemaking,  gave  advice  to  both,  and  of  course 
offended  both;  besides  exposing  himself  to  the  suspicion  of 
wrong-dealing.  The  trouble  which  this  affair  occasioned  him 
may  have  contributed  to  hasten  his  return  to  England.  About 
a  week  before  he  sailed  from  Boston,  he  drew  up  a  statement 
of  his  connection  with  the  case,  for  the  purpose  of  clearing 
himself  of  "  divers  imputations "  of  having  promoted  litiga 
tion  by  advice  which,  "  in  the  simplicity  of  his  heart,"  he  had 
given  to  Mr.  Story  and  Goody  Sherman.  This  paper  is  dated 
July  24,  1641.  In  the  first  draft  in  the  Note  book  he  had 
written :  "  Being  purposed  some  time  at  least  to  visit  iny 
native  —  ; "  but  drew  his  pen  through  the  unfinished  sen 
tence,  and  interlined  in  its  place  :  "  Now  being  purposed,  God 
willing,  to  visit  my  friends  in  England."  In  another  para 
graph,  alluding  to  a  conversation  which  he  had  with  Story, 
"one  Lord's  day  when  the  Sacrament  was  at  Boston,"  he 
fixes  the  time  by  adding,  "  being  the  next  day  as  I  remember 
after  the  newes  that  it  was  sup2)osed  Mr.  Prynne  had  sent  me 
money  for  my  passage." 

Mr.  Cotton  says  that  Lechford,  "  when  he  saw  he  could  not 
defend  the  Error  [that  the  Apostolick  function  was  not  yet 
ceased]  but  by  building  again  the  Bishops,  against  whom  he 
had  witnessed  (as  he  said)  in  soliciting  the  cause  of  Mr. 
Prynne,  he  rather  then  he  would  revoke  his  present  tenent, 

1  See  Winthrop,  ii.  69-71,  115-119. 


XXviii  A    SKETCH  OF   THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

acknowledged  be  was  then  in  an  Error  when  he  took  part  with 
Mr'.  Prynne  and  Mr.  Burton,  and  therefore  he  would  now  return 
to  Enyltnd  again,  to  reduce  these  famous  witnesses  from  the 
Error  of  their  way.  And  accordingly,  away  he  went."  * 

On  the  same  day  on  which  he  wrote  the  statement  above 
mentioned,  Lechford  made  a  letter  of  attorney  to  Thomas 
Savage  to  receive  all  moneys  due  him  in  New  England,  and  all 
letters  which  should  be  sent  to  him,  "  and  the  same  letters  to 
peruse  and  send  and  return  them  and  the  said  moneys  and 
debts  to  him  in  money  or  goods  and  commodities,"  etc.2 

The  last  entry  in  the  Note-book  before  leaving  Boston  was 
made  on  or  after  July  29.  It  is  a  memorandum  of  his  obli 
gation  by  bond  (in  which  Mr.  David  Odley  was  his  surety) 
to  Mr.  Joshua  Hewes  of  Roxbury,  to  pay  £8  to  "  Mr.  Joshua 
Footc  at  the  Cocke  in  Grace  church  Streete,"  before  Christ 
mas,  on  a  bill  or  note  dated  July  27. 

On  the  opposite  page  are  two  unimportant  entries  of  pay 
ments  of  money  in  England  in  the  discharge  of  commissions 
intrusted  to  him  before  sailing.  At  the  head  of  this  page  is 
the  date,  "  Post  Mich[aelmas],  17  Car.  1641." 

The  vessel  in  which  he  took  passage  from  Boston  sailed  on 
the  third  of  August.  We  learn  from  Winthrop  (ii.  31)  that 
among  her  forty  passengers  were  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  Hugh 
Peters,  Thomas  Welde,  and  William  Hibbins,  who,  "finding 
no  ship  which  wras  to  return  right  for  England,  they  went  to 
Newfoundland,  intending  to  get  a  passage  fr^m  thence  in  the 
fishing  fleet.  .  .  .  They  arrived  there  in  14  days,  but  could 
not  go  altogether,  so  were  forced  to  divide  themselves,  and  go 
from  several  parts  of  the  island,  as  they  could  get  shipping." 
Lechford  mentions  having  ;<  touched,  coining  homeward,"  at 
Newfoundland.3  On  the  16th  of  November  he  was  once  more 
an  inmate  of  Clement's  Inn,  and  had  "  returned  humbly  to  the 
Church  of  England."  4 

1  Way  of  Conrjr.  Churches  cleared,          8  Plain  Dealing,  p.  46. 
pt.  i.  p.  71.  *  Plain  Dealing,  p.  68. 

2  See  post,  p.  231 


LECHFORD'S 


MANUSCRIPT    NOTE-BOOK. 


Boston  in  New  England  27°.  4».  the  day  of  my  landing,  1G38. 

John  Jolliffc1  and  William  Chescbrough2  made  a  grant  of 
the  house  &  lot  next  M?  Cottons  in  nature  of  a  mortgage 
for  451  to  4  Yorkshire  men  and  their  heires.  [Is.  Jolliffe  & 
Chesebrough  &c.] 


1  John  Jolliffe,  or  Joyliffe,  is  noted 
by  Savage  as  of  Boston,  1656,  freeman, 
1673  ;  many  years  a  selectman  ;  one  of 
the  Patriots  of  1689  who  put  Andros  in 
prison  ;  town -recorder  in  1691  ;  made 
by  Increase  Mather  one  of  the  council 
in  the  charter  of  "William  and  Mary  ; 
died  23  Nov.  1702.  (Savage  is  here  in 
error.  He  died  in  1701.)  In  the  letters 
of  Matthew  Cradock  to  Winthrop  (4 
Mass.  HiNt.  Coll.,  vi.  118  et  scqq.)  is 
found  frequent  mention  of  John  Jolliffe, 
agent  for  Cradock  in  New  England. 
This  must  be  the  man  noted  in  the  text. 
Whether  it  is  the  same  one  who  is  found 
in  Savage  is  doubtful.  If  he  were  Cra- 
dock's  agent  in  1636,  he  must  have  been 
near  ninety  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
Looking  along  in  Sewall's  Diary  (5  Mass. 
Ilist.  Coll.,  v.  and  vi.)  we  find  with  other 
notice  that  in  1789  Joylifle,  then  on  the 
Bench,  was  old  enough  to  be  Sewall's 
father.  Sewall  was  then  thirty-seven. 
In  1692  JoylifTe  resigned  the  Recorder- 
ship  on  account  of  blindness,  and  in  1701 
he  died,  having  "been  blind,  and  having 


laboured  under  many  Infirmities  for  a 
long  time."  These  notices  would  seem 
to  show  that  he  might  have  been  born 
as  early  as  1610,  which  would  make  him 
twenty-six  at  the  time  of  his  employ 
ment  by  Cradock,  if  he  were  that  agent. 
There  is,  therefore,  some  doubt  as  to  the 
identity. 

2  William  Chesebrough  was  about 
removing  from  Boston,  —  or  perhaps 
had  already  removed  to  Mount  Wollas- 
ton  (Braintree,  now  Quincy).  A  few 
years  afterwards  he  again  removed  to 
llehoboth ;  and  thence,  before  1649, 
to  the  Pequot  country,  where  he  was 
the  first  permanent  settler  in  the  terri 
tory  now  constituting  the  township  of 
Stonington, Conn,  (Trumbull,  i.  234). 

The  "  4  Yorkshire  men"  were  prob 
ably  of  the  company  of  the  Rev.  Ezekiel 
Rogers,  "  who  came  over  with  him  this 
summer"  from  Rowley,  in  Yorkshire 
(IVinth.,  i.  278)  ;  and  may  have  been 
fellow-passengers  with  Lechford. 

The  next  year  (Oct.  7,  1639)  Thomas 
Barker,  John  Johnson,  Francis  Lam- 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


An  arbitration  or  award  was  made  betweene  MrWaltha1  of 
Weymouth  in  N.  E.  and  Captaine  Desallcnoba  concerning  the 
mill,  <fcc.  [2s.  (jd.  Desallcnoba  &  Waltham.] 

An  Assigncmcnt  of  ccrtainc  Tenements  in  New  Windsoro 
in  Com.  Berks  in  Anfglia]  was  made  by  [Man/.-]  and  bis 
wife  unto  John  Tinker,2  with  a  declaration  that  it  is  in 
trust  to  sell  the  same  for  the  said  [Wawfc]  and  his  wife. 
[3«.  Tinker.] 

I  writt  two  manuscripts  for  Mr  Davenportc  3  one  in  answere 
to  MX  Bernard  about  the  Church  Covenant  <fcc.  the  other  an 
answere  to  MX  Ball  about  the  Comon  prayer  booke  in  E. 
[11  6s.  Qd.  Mr  Davenport.] 


t>ert,  and  John  Pumlerson,  —  the  four 
mortgagees,  as  is  hardly  doubtful,  — 
joined  with  William  Chcsebrough  in  a 
conveyance  of  this  house  and  lot  to  Ser 
jeant  Thomas  Savage,  as  a  subsequent 
page  of  Lechford's  Note-book  will  show. 
Thomas  Barker  removed  to  Rowley, 
where  he  died,  1650  ;  and  his  widow 
became  the  third  wife  of  Air.  Rogers. 
Francis  Lambert  also  followed  Air.  Ro 
gers  to  Rowley.  John  Punderson  and 
John  Johnson  had  removed  to  New  Ha 
ven  before  the  date  of  the  conveyance 
of  1639,  where  the  former  was  chosen 
one  of  the  seven  pillars,  at  the  first 
church  gathering,  August,  1639.  [T.] 
1  Henry  Waltham,  merchant ;  repre 
sentative  from  Weymouth  in  1636.  He 
was  a  partner  with  Thomas  Richards  in 
the  mill  at  Weymouth.  Later  reference 
is  made  to  him,  pp.  178,  195,  207,  post. 
See  also  J/rtss.  lleconli,  i.  267,  313.  Sel- 
lanova,  or  De  Sallenoba  (or  Srilla  Nova, 
as  Governor  Winthrop  once  wrote  it,  in 
1636),  who  was  an  engineer,  had  per 
haps  been  employed  in  the  construction 
of  the  mill  or  dam.  [T.]  He  is  men 
tioned  in  the  JAm.  Records  as  being  sent 
for  in  a  proposed  expedition  against  the 
French  at  Penobscot  (i.  160). 


2  John  Tinker,  at  this  time  of  Bos 
ton,  was  about  making  a  voyage  to  Eng 
land.     He  returned  before  Alarch,  1643, 
and  was,  successively,  of  Windsor,  Bos 
ton,  Lancaster,  and  New  London.     He 
was  a  representative  from  the  last-named 
town  in  1660  and  1661,  ami  appointed 
an  assistant,  or  magistrate,  there.     He 
died  in  October,  1662.     See  later  in  the 
Note-book,  p.  189,  post.    [T.] 

3  John  Davenport,  the  first  minister 
of    New    Haven ;     bora    at    Coventry, 
England,  1598,   died  1670,    in   Boston, 
where  he  succeeded  John  Wilson  in  the 
ministry  of  the  First  Church.     He  first 
arrived   in    Boston   with   Hopkins  and 
Eaton,   June    26,   1637,    and    remained 
there  until   Alarch  30,   1638,   when  he 
sailed  for  Quinpiack.     It  would  appeal- 
that  he  had  left  his  AISS.  in  Boston,  to 
be  forwarded  to   England.     Winthrop, 
under   October,   1638,    writes:    "About 
two  years  since  one  Air.  [Richard]  Ber 
nard,  a  minister  at  Batcomb,  in  Somer 
setshire,  in  England,  sent  over  two  books 
in  writing,  one  to  the  magistrates,  and 
the  other  to  the  elders,  wherein  he  laid 
down  arguments  against  the  manner  of 
our  gathering  our  churches,  etc.,  which 
the   elders   could   not   answer  till  this 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


I  writt  a  pcticon  for  the  Country  to  the  Lords  Comis- 
sioners  for  forraine  plantacons,  ahout  the  Patent,  and  a 
letter  to  the  Clerke  of  the  Councell.1  [5s.  Mr  GovnoT]  2 

Articles  of  agreement  of  factorage  bctwccnc  Tliomas  Thorn 
ton3  and  John  Tinker,  17.8  [1638].  [2s.  Gd.  Thornton, 
Tinker.] 

Divers  writings  for  M*  Humfrey 4  to  M^  Willm  Bollingham,6 
about  100*  borrowed  &  cattle  ingaged  for  it.  [2s.  6d.  Mr 
Humfrey  &  Mr  Bcllingham.] 


time,  by  reason  of  the  many  troubles 
about  Mrs,  Hutchinson's  opinions,  etc. 
Mr.  Cotton  also  answered  another  book 
sent  over  in  defence  of  set  form  of 
prayer.  This  I  suppose  was  Mr.  Ball's 
book"  (IVinth,.!  i.  275). 

Mr.  Cotton's  Modest  and  deer  Answer 
to  Mr.  Ball's  Discourse  of  Set  Formes 
of  Prayer  was  published  in  London  in 
1642  (4to,  49  pp.).  In  a  note  to  the 
Reply  to  the  Answers  to  the  Nine  Posi 
tions  (London,  1643,  p.  7),  Mr.  Ball 
mentions  "  having  received  that  answer 
before  the  publishing  of  his  own  Trea 
tise."  From  Lechford's  note  it  would 
appear  that  Mr.  Davenport  also  wrote 
in  reply  to  Ball.  The  other  manuscript 
transcribed  by  Lechford  was  doubtless 
An  Apologic  of  tlic  Elders  of  the  several 
Churches  in  New  England  for  Church 
Covenant,  sent  over  in  answer  to  Master 
Bernard  in  the  year  1639  ;  with  An 
Answer  to  Nine  Positions  about  Church 
Government,  first  published  in  England 
in  1641,  and  reprinted  in  1643,  with 
Richard  Mather's  Answer  to  Thirty-two 
Questions,  etc.  Mr.  Ball  wrote  a  Reply 
to  the  Ansircrx  to  the  Nine  Position*! 
which  was  printed  in  1643,  A  Letter  of 
Many  Ministers  in  old  England,  Re 
questing  the  judgement  of  their  Rever 
end  Brethren  in  New  England  concern 
ing  Nine  Positions,  Written  Anno  Dom. 


1637.  Togctlur  with  their  Answer  there 
unto  returned,  Anno  1639.  And  the 
Reply  made  unto  the  said  Answer,  and 
sent  over  unto  them,  Anno  1640  (-London, 
4to,  pp.  12,  90).  [T.] 

1  Mr.  Thomas  Meautis,  or,  as  Gov 
ernor  Winthrop  wrote  the  name,  Mewtis 
(see  Winth.,  i.  274  ;  Hulbard,  pp.  268- 
2/a     [T.] 

2  John  Winthrop,  Sr. 

8  Of  Dorchester,  1634  ;  removed  to 
Windsor,  Conn.  [T.] 

4  John  Humfrey,  one  of  the  six  grant 
ees  of  the  Massachusetts  Patent.  He 
was  allied  by  marriage  to  the  family  of 
the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  having  married 
Susan,  daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Lin 
coln,  and  sister  of  Lady  Arbella  John 
son  and  of  Bridget,  Countess  of  Lincoln. 
He  had  been  treasurer  of  the  Fishing 
Company  at  Dorchester  in  England. 
He  was  chosen  Deputy-Governor  of  the 
Massachusetts  Colony  in  1629  while 
still  in  England,  but  did  not  leave  for 
this  country  until  1632.  He  lost  much 
of  his  property,  however,  and  suffered 
other  ill-fortune,  and  left  the  country 
for  England  in  1041. 

6  William  Bcllingham,  of  Rowley, 
was  the  brother  of  Richard  Bellingham. 
He  was  freeman  in  1640,  and  died  in 
1650. 


4  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

A  writing  of  advice  to  M^  Strange  l  about  his  search  in 
E[ngland]  for  his  wife's  lands.  18.8.  [Is.  Qd.  Mr  Strange.] 

A  Release  by  M*  Swimmer  to  M*  Humfrcy  and  another 
by  M1:  Ilumfrey  to  Mr  Swimmer.  [2s.  Qd.  Mr  Humfrey  & 
Swimmer.] 

A  sliorte  Lease  made  by  Augustin  Clement  of  Dorchester  in 
N.  E.  planter,  of  One  messuage  or  Tenement  wth  one  orchard 
&  one  garden  thereto  belonging  lying  in  Wockingham  in  the 
County  of  Berks  in  E.  late  in  the  tenure  or  occupation  of 
Margaret  Mathew,  unto  Willm.  Salter2  of  Boston  in  N.  E. 
ffisherman,  for  30  dayes,  dated  11.8.  [8df.  Clement,  Salter. 
Witnesses  Tho  :  Leveritt,3  Tho  :  Marshfield,  Tho :  Lechford.] 

Tho  said  Augustin  Clement  <fe  Elizabeth  his  wife  granted 
the  premises  by  Indenture  unto  John  Tinker 'of  Boston  in 
new  E.  planter,  to  have  &  to  hold  to  him  the  said  John  and 
his  heircs  &,  assi~  for  ever.  With  Attornm*  by  the  said 
Willm  Salter.  18.8.  [3s.  U.  Clement  &  ux.  Tinker,  iidem 
testes.  norint  attornamt  sur  dorss.  del  fait.]  4 

Me  Augustin  Clement  <fec.  tener  John  Tinker  in  80 1  dat. 
18.8.  conditioned  to  keepe  Coven'  in  the  said  Indentures 
expressed.  [Is.  Od.  Clement  Tinker,  iidem  testes.] 

[Lent  to  Mr  Williams,5  18.8,  my  blew  manuscr.,  my  re- 
lacon,  the  brev*  of  Cambridge,  Nath.  Wiggins  Reasons,  & 
the  printed  relation  of  the  Martyrs.  Sent  by  Mr  Throg- 
morton.]  [21  2s.  G<*.  Mr  Wms] 

1  Probably  Goorgc  Strange,  of  II ing-     a    house    out    towards    the   Neck,    on 
ham,  and  formerly  of  Dorchester.     Suv-     what    is    now    Boylston    Street,    near 
ago   notes   the  sale  of  his  tenement  in     Tremont. 

Hingham  in   1G39,  the  deed  of  which  8  Thomas  Leverett  the  Elder,  father 

is  recorded  (Stiff".  Deeds,  i.  f.  14).     Per-  of  Governor  John  Leverett. 

haps  a  successful  "  search  for  his  wife's  4  "The  same  witnesses  were  present 

lands"    encouraged    him    to   return   to  at  the  attornmeut  on  the  back  of  the 

England.     See  p.  26,  note,  post.     [T.]  deed." 

2  William  Salter,  of  Boston,  is  called  *  Probably  this  entry  refers  to  Roger 
a  shoemaker  by  Savage,  who  says  that  Williams,  at  this  time  in  Providence, 
he   kept    the   .prison    later.      He    had  and  to  George  Throgmorton,  who  came 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  0 

[2]  Articles  of  agreement  indented  made  letweene  Augustin 
Clement l  of  Dorchester  in  N.  E.  planter  of  the  one  parte, 
and  John  Tinker  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  planter  of  the  other 
parte,  the  xviijlh  day  of  October,  Anno  flni'~  1638. 

It  is  hereby  covenanted  concluded  declared  and  agreed  by 
and  bctwccno  the  partyes  abovesaid  in  manner  and  forme  fol 
lowing  1.  Imprimis  that  whereas  the  said  Augustin  Clement 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife  have  by  their  deed  indented  under  their 
hands  <fe  scales  bearing  date  with  these  presents  granted  and 
conveyed  unto  the  said  John  Tinker.  One  messuage  or  Tene 
ment  and  one  orchard  and  one  garden  thereto  belonging  w^ 
the  appurtenances  lying  in  Wockingham  in  the  County  of 
Bcrk«  in  England  now  or  late  in  the  tenure  or  occupation  of 
Margaret  Mathew  or  her  assignes  To  have  and  to  hold  to  him 
the  said  John  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever  as  more  at  large 
by  the  said  Deed  indented  it  doth  &  may  appeare  Now  it  is 
covenanted  concluded  declared  and  agreed  by  and  bctweene 
the  said  parties  to  these  presents  that  the  said  grant  &  con 
veyance  unto  the  said  John  is  and  shall  be  upon  this  spcciall 
trust  and  confidence,  that  is  to  say  that  the  said  John  shall 
joyne  in  salev  of  the  prmises  w*h  the  said  Margaret  Mathew 
unto  some  person  or  persons  in  England,  if  slice  shall  live  soe 
long  and  be  willing  thereunto,  but  if  slice  be  dead  or  shall 
dye  before  the  sale,  then  the  said  John  shall  or  may  sell  the 
premises  himselfe  for  the  said  Augustin  &  Elizabeth  and  their 

over    with    him    in    1630.      Williams  and    came    again   in   May,    1637.     He 

had    been    banished    by    the    General  died  at  Dorchester,  Oct.  1,  1674.    From 

Court    in    the    winter    of    1635-1636,  these  articles  of    agreement,    and  the 

and     Throgmorton    had     accompanied  letters   which   follow,    it   appears   that 

him   to    Rhode   Island.     The  entry    is  he  had  a  house  and  land  at   Woking- 

cros.sed  out,  perhaps  at  the  return   of  hnm  (or   Oakinghnm),   a  market-town 

the  books.  in  Berkshire,  seven  miles  from  Heading, 

1  Augustin   Clement   came   to    New  which  was  then  occupied  by  his  sister, 

England  in    the    "James,"  of  London,  Margaret  Mathew,   who  was  proposing 

April,    1635,    and   in  the  list  is  called  to   come   to   New   England  ;    and  that 

a   painter,   sometime   of    Reading  ;    (3  Anne  Clemont,  the  widow  of  his  brother 

Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  viii.  319  ;  cf.  Hist,  and  John,  was  living  at  Shcnfield  [county  of 

Gcneal.   Reg.,  v.  440).     Savage  thinks  Essex,  about   ten   miles    from  Chelrns- 

it  probable  that  he  went  home  in  1636,  ford,  on  the  road  to  London].     [T.] 


6  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

use  &  bencfitt  for  their  interest  in  the  premises.  And  that  the 
said  John  shall  and  will  diligently  &  faithfully  attend  and  use 
his  best  skill  &  endevours  to  advance  &  further  the  profitt  of 
the  said  Augustin  &  Elizabeth  &  of  Margaret  Mathew  afore 
said  if  slice  shall  live  so  long.  And  the  moneys  that  the 
premises  shall  be  sold  for  are  to  be  at  the  dispose  of  the  said 
Margaret  Mathew  if  shee  be  then  living,  and  to  be  payd  unto 
her  if  slice  shall  come  away  for  New  E.  upon  trust  that  shee 
will  be  answerable  to  the  said  Augustin  &  Elizabeth  for  the 
value  of  their  interest  in  the  premises  els  if  the  said  Marga 
ret  dye  then  the  said  John  shall  receive  the  money  for  the 
premises  and  be  accountable  for  it  unto  the  said  Augustin  his 
executors  &  admors. 

2.  Itiii  if  the  said  lands  shall  be  sold  &  the  said  Margaret 
will  not  come  for  N.  E.,  that  then  the  said  John  shall  receive 
the  value  of  the  interest  of  the  said  Augustin  &  Elizabeth  in 
the  premises,  &  shall  be  accountable  for  the  same  unto  the 
said  Augustin  his  executors  &  administrators :  the  said  value 
being  to  be  compounded  &  agreed  on  by  and  betweene  the  said 
Margaret  &  John  equally  according  to  their  best  discreations. 

3.  Itiii  If  the  said  Margaret  shall  when  the  premises  are 
sold  be  disposed  to  come  for  N.  E.  that  then  the  said  John 
shall  advise,  help  &  assist  the  said  Margaret,  in  making  and 
buying  provisions  for  the  passage  &  transportation  of  herselfe, 
her  servants  &  estate  and  goods,  over  the  seas  into  these  parts 
of  New  England  according  to  his  best  skill  &  ability  faithfully 
and  diligently  to  be  performed  according  to  trust  reposed  in 
him. 

[3]  4.  Itiii  that  the  said  Augustin  Clement  and  Elizabeth 
his  wife  and  theire  heires  shall  &  will  from  time  and  at  all 
times  hereafter  within  the  space  of  seaven  yeares  next  ensu 
ing  the  date  hereof  at  the  reasonable  request  and  at  the  cost 
&  charges  in  the  law  of  the  said  John  Tinker  his  heires  or 
assignes  make  doe  acknowledge  suffer  levy  and  execute  or 
cause  to  be  made  done  acknowledged  suffered  levyed  &  exe 
cuted  all  &  every  such  further  &  other  lawfull  &  reasonable 
act  &  acts  tiling  &  things  devise  &  devises  assurances  &  con 
veyances  in  the  law  whatsoever  for  the  more  better  assuring 


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suerty  &  sure  making  &  conveying  of  all  the  premises  unto 
the  said  John  Tinker  his  heires  and  assignes  according  to 
the  meaning  hereof  and  of  the  said  Deed  indented  as  by  the 
said  John  his  heires  or  assignes  or  his  or  their  counsell 
learned  in  the  law  shall  be  reasonably  advised  devised  or 
required  soe  as  the  said  Augustin  &  Elizabeth  and  their 
heires  be  not  compelled  to  travell  out  of  the  jurisdiction 
ot*  the  Massachusetts  in  N.  E.  for  the  making  doing  or 
suffering  thereof. 

5.  Ittn  that  the  said  Augustine  and  Elizabeth  &  their  heires 
executors  &  administrators  shall  &  will  from  time  to  tyme 
and  at  all  tymcs  hereafter  save  and  kccpo  harmolesso  the 
said  John  Tinker  his  heires  executors  and  administrators  of 
and  from  all  accons  suits  troubles  &  demands  wch  shall  any 
wayes  arise  <fe  come  upon  or  be  brought  against  the  said  John 
his  heires  executors  or  administrators  for  or  by  reason  of  any 
reasonable  grants  articles  covenants   agreements  conditions 
bonds  assurances  &  conveyances  wch  the  said  John  shall  be 
required  and  enter  into  or  make  unto  the  purchaser  or  pur- 
chasors  of  the  premises  according  to  the  true  meaning   of 
these  presents  &  the  deed  indented  aforesaid." 

6.  Itiii  that  if  the  said  John  shall  effect  the  businesses 
aforesaid  for  sale  of  the  premises  then  the  said  John  shall 
receive  of  the  money  made  of  the  premises  five  pounds  for 
his  pay nes   whether  the   said  Margaret  come  over  to  N.  E. 
or  no. 

7.  Itiii  If  said  premises  cannot  or  shall  not  be  sold,  after 
the  said  John  hath  used  his  diligent  &  best  cndevours  to  that 
end,  cither  for  want  of  a  chapman,  or  for  rcfusall  of  the  said 
Marg-et  to  joyne  in  the  sale  afores?  then  the  said  Augustin 
shall  give  &  pay  unto  the  said  John  the  sunime   of  twenty 
shillings. 

8.  Item  that  if  the  premises  shall  not  be  sold  as  aforesaid, 
that  then  the  said  John,  his  lieires  and  assignes  shall  reconvey 
the  premises  unto  the  said  Augustin,  his  heirs  and  assignes 
or  to  whomcsoever  hee  or  they  shall  appoint  upon  reasonable 
demand.    In  witnesse  etc.     Witnesses  as  aforesaid.     [Clement 
it  Tinker  3s.  4ti 


8  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Me  Johafn  Tinker  de  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  plantatorem 
tcne'r  et  firmitcr  obligari  Augustino  Clement  in  80  *,  datm  18? 
8.  lidem  testes. 

The  Condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  above- 
boundcn  John  Tinker  his  heires  executors,  administrators 
and  assignes  shall  from  tyme  to  tyme  and  at  all  tymes  here 
after  fullfill,  pcrforme,  keepe  and  observe  all  such  Articles, 
covenants,  declaracons  and  [4]  agreements,  on  his  and  their 
par'te  to  be  fullfilled,  performed,  kept  &  observed,  wch  are 
mentioned  &  conteyned  in  certaine  Articles  of  agreement  in 
dented  bearing  date  w"1  these  presents,  made  betweene  the  said 
Augustin  of  the  one  parte  &  the  said  John  of  the  other  parte, 
then  this  obligation  shall  be  voyd  &  of  none  effect,  or  els  it 
shall  be  and  remaine  in  full  force,  strength  and  vertue.  [Is.] 

Me  Augustin  Clement  de  Dorchester  in  Nova^Anglia,  plant- 
atore  tener  etc  Joh'i  Tinker  in  80  *  Datm  18.  8.  lidem  testes. 

Condiconed  for  himselfe  &  his  wife  ut  supra,  mutatis  mu 
tandis.  [Is.] 

To  my  loving  Sister  Anne  Clement  at  SJwnfield  these  deliver']. 

Loving  Sister,  I  and  my  wife  doe  both  remember  our  loves 
unto  you,  hoping  that  you  are  well,  as  praised  be  God  we  are. 
These  are  to  entreat  you  to  deliver  my  deeds  and  writings 
concerning  my  Tenement  in  Wock  unto  this  bearer  John 
Tinker  my  ffricnd,  unto  whome  I  have  conveyed  the  same, 
and  the  deeds  &  writings  thereto  belonging  I  have  granted 
unto  him,  in  trust  to  make  sale  thereof  for  me  with  my  Sister 
Margarctt :  my  wife  hath  also  joyncd  in  the  conveyance  wth 
me  to  him  to  that  purpose,  as  by  the  conveyance  may  appeare 
wch  hee  will  shew  you  if  you  please  or  reade  the  same  unto  you. 
Wherefore  I  earnestly  pray  and  require  you  not  to  delay  or 
fayle  to  deliver  them  unto  him  accordingly.  Soe  I  commend 
you  to  God's  tuition  and  rest. 

Yor  loving  Brother,  A.  C. 

BOSTON  IN  N.  E:  18.8. 

[84] 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

To  my  loving  freinds,  Mr.  John  Batcman  minister  at   Woclc,  and 
Wm  Ridkin  there  dwelling,  or  cither  of  them,  these  d: 

Worthy  Mr.  Batcman  <t  my  good  frcind  Willm  Rutkin,  my 
loving  salutations  to  you  &  yors  rcmembred  in  the  Lord. 
These  are  to  let  you  understand  that  I  have  conveyed  my 
Tenement  in  Wock  wherein  my  sister  Margaret  Mathew 
dwclleth  unto  this  bearer  my  frcind  John  Tinker,  in  trust 
to  sell  the  same  for  me  &  her  as  you  may  perceive  by  the 
conveyance  and  agreements  between  us,  if  you  please  to 
reade  the  same.  Now  whereas  I  left  my  writings  concern 
ing  this  land  wth  my  brother  John  Clement,  who  is  dead,  & 
they  are  now  in  the  hands  of  my  sister-in-law,  his  wife  and 
executrix,  and  as  I  hearc  Edward  Baker  of  Reading  is  over 
seer  of  my  brother's  will,  I  shall  intrcate  you  two  to  use  yor 
best  cndcvours  wth  my  sister  Clement  &  Mr.  Baker  to  deliver 
those  deeds  and  writings  to  this  my  ffricnd,  that  hoc  and  my 
sister  Margaret  may  goe  on  to  finish  the  sale  thereof  accord 
ing  to  trust  I  have  put  in  him,  and  wherin  I  pray  you  to  assist 
and  further  him  what  you  can.  My  wife  hath  also  joyncd  wth 
me  in  the  sale,  as  you  may  perceive  by  it,  and  I  hope  the 
conveyance  is  good ;  if  it  be  not  I  will  pcrfit  it  as  the  buyer 
shall  be  advised.  Herein  1  doubt  not  but  you  will  bcfreind 
mo.  Soc  wth  my  owne  <fe  my  wife's  due  respects  rcmembred 
unto  you  both,  I  recommend  you  &  yours  and  all  the  faithfull 
wth  you  to  God's  tuition  and  rest. 

Yor  loving  freind 

A.  C. 
FFROM  BOSTON  IN  N.  E.  18.  8. 

[8,7.] 

To  my  loving  Sister  Margaret  Matluw  at  Wock,  these  d : 

Good  Sister,  I  and  my  wife  both  remember  our  loves  to  you, 
hoping  that  you  arc  well  &  in  good  health,  as  praised  be  our 
good  God,  we  arc.  Since  we  understood  of  yor  willingncsse 
to  come  over  to  us,  whereof  we  are  glad  and  shall,  God 
willing,  give  you  the  best  entertainment  we  can,  we  have 


10  LECHFORD' S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

entrusted  this  bearer,  our  freind  John  Tinker,  to  joyne  w01 
you  in  sale  of  the  house  and  that  belongs  to  it,  for  wch  pur 
pose  wee  have  made  him  a  good  conveyance  of  our  right 
theriu ;  wherefore  if  you  are  willing,  set  forward  the  sale  of 
the  land  <fc  house,  that  it  be  effected  w"1  convenient  speed 
[5]  and  then  we  have  taken  order  wth  him  to  help  you  &  advise 
for  yor  passage  <fc  the  bringing  over  of  yor  goods  &  what  you 
have,  if  you  are  willing  to  come  to  us.  I  pray  give  &  provide 
for  our  ffriend  the  best  entertainment  you  may.  Soe  the 
Lord  God  guide  you  &  keepe  you  &  us. 

Yor  very  loving  brother  &  sister, 

A.  C.        E.  C. 

FFROM  BOSTON  IN  N.  E.  18.  8. 

[8*] 

A  Letter  to  Mr.  Prince  &  another  to  Mr.  Clendan  in  my  owne 
affairs,  p  John  Tinker,  18.  8.  in  the  Mary  Anne. 

Other  letters  sent  to  Sr  G.  G.,  Mr.  Dr  G,  Mr  B,  R.  Ellis,  & 
my  M.  by  Henry  Grey's  freind  in  the  same  ship.1 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall 
come,  I  John  I  Food,2  late  of  Ilalsted,  in  the  County  of  Essex, 
weaver,  and  now  of  Cambridge  in  New  England,  planter, 
send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting  &c.  Knowe  yee, 
that  I  the  said  John  Hood  for  divers  good  considerations  me 

1  Henry  Grey,  a  tailor,  was  of  Bos-  idence   Island    (Bahamas),  from  which 

ton  in  1638,  but  removed  to  Fairfield,  company  Lechford   elsewhere   mentions 

Conn.,   about    1640,    with   his   brother  that   ho   had   received   the   offer  of  an 

John,  and  their  father-in-law,  William  advantageous  position.      [T.  ] 
Frost.    Lechford,   in   his  Plaine  Deal-          2  John  Hood,  a  weaver,  at  this  time 

iny,  mentions  his    "old   acquaintance,  of  Cambridge,  is  found  in  Lynn  in  1650; 

Master  Frost,  sometime  of  Nottingham,  Kittery,  1652  (tiavar/c).     Ilalsted  is  in 

and  his  sonncs,  John  Grey  and   Henry  Hinckfonl    Hundred,  —  on   the    Kiver 

Grey  "  (3  Muss.  Hist.  Coll.,  iii.  98).  Colne,  forty-six  rniles  from  London,  and 

The  initial  letters,  which    Lechford  six  miles  from  Brain  tree,  —  whence  a 

gives,  leave  wide  scope  for  conjecture  as  number  of  Thomas  Hooker's  congrega- 

to  the  names  of  his  correspondents.     Sir  tion   or   company   had   come    to    Cam- 

G.  G.  was,  possibly,  Sir  Gilbert  Gerard,  bridge  (and  Mount  Wollaston)  in  1632. 

deputy-governor  of  the  Company  of  Prov-  [T. ] 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  11 

thereunto  moving  have  demised,  granted  and  to  f urine  Ictlen, 
and  by  these  prsents  doe  demise,  graunt,  and  to  farme  lett, 
unto  Willm  Dinelcy,1  of  Boston  in  New  England,  planter,  all 
those  my  houses,  mesuages,  outhouses  and  gardens  and  back 
sides  thereunto  belonging,  lying  in  Halstcd  aforesaid,  now  or 
late  in  the  tenure  or  occupation  of  John  Beard 2  my  ffather- 
in-law  and  of  Anne  his  wife,  my  mother,  or  their  assignes,  be 
the  said  messuages  or  houses,  backsides,  gardens,  one  or  two 
or  three  tenements  or  more,  by  what  name  or  names  soever 
they  be  called  and  howsoever  bounded  or  described,  To  have 
and  to  hold  the  said  houses,  messuages,  and  all  and  singulare 
the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances,  unto  the  said  William 
Dineley  his  executors  administrators  and  assignes,  for  and 
during  the  space  of  six  daycs  from  the  day  of  the  date  hereof 
fully  to  be  compleate  and  ended.  In  witnesse  — 

Dat.  20.  8.     Witnesses,  Gregory  Stone,  Barnaba  Lamson 

&  T.  L.       [Is.  Hood  &   (blank).'] 

This  Indenture  made  the  twentie  second  day  of  October  in 
the  fourteenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Softaigne  Lord 
Charles  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of  England,  Scotland, 
France  &  Ireland  &c.  Annoque  Dmi.  1G38,  bctweene  John 
Hood  late  of  Halsted  in  the  County  of  Essex  weaver  and  now 
of  Cambridge  in  New  England  Planter  of  the  one  partc  and 
Thomas  Parish,3  of  Cambridge  aforesaid,  planter,  of  the  other 
parte,  Witnesseth,  that  the  said  John  Hood  for  and  in  con- 

1  William  Dinely  is  perhaps  remem-  Working  Providence,  Book  II.  chap,  xv.) 

bored  by  most  people  rather  through  his  to  draw  a  tooth,  he  went  forth  with  the 

son,  Fathcrgone  Dinely,  than  in  his  own  maid  who  had  summoned  him,  and  there 

personality.     He  was  a  barber-surgeon,  being  a  violent  snow-storm,   they  both 

and   combined  with    this  vocation  the  lost  their  way  on  going  over  the  Neck, 

art  of  drawing  teeth,  as  was  then  cus-  and  died  in  the  snow.     His  son,  born 

tomary.     lie  was  a  favorer  of  the  heret-  shortly  after  this  event,  was  baptized  with 

ical  doctrines  advanced  by  Mrs.  Anne  the   name  of  Fathergone.     His  widow 

Hutchinson,  and  on  account  of  his  pecu-  subsequently  married  Richard     Critch- 

liar  calling  had  a  very  great  opportunity  ley;  for  whom  see  note  at  p.  143,  post. 
to  instill  these  doctrines  into  the  minds          2  Thomas,  not  John.     See  deed  next 

of  his   patients.      But   being   sent   for  following. 

on  a  winter's  night  by  one  of  Roxbury          8  Thomas     Parish,    of     Cambridge, 

(as  may  be  read  in  Johnson's    Wonder-  "  came  in  the  '  Increase,'  1635,  aged  22  ; 


12  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

sidcracon  of  the  sumo  of  five  shillings  to  him  in  hand  payd 
hcfore  the  sealing  and  delivery  of  these  presents,  and  for 
divers  other  good  causes  &  considerations  him  thereunto 
moving  hath  granted,  bargained  &  sold,  enfeoffed  and  con 
firmed  and  by  these  presents  doth  grant  bargaine  &  sell 
enfeoffc  &  confirme  unto  the  said  Thomas  Parish  all  those 
houses,  messuages  outhouses  and  gardens  and  backsides  there 
unto  belonging  lying  in  Ilalsted  aforesaid  now  or  late  in  the 
tenure  or  occupation  of  Thomas  Beard  and  Anne  his  wife, 
mother  of  the  said  John  Hood  or  their  assignes  be  the  said 
mesuages  or  houses  backsides  gardens  one  or  two  or  three  or 
more  tenement  or  tenements,  by  what  name  or  names  so  ever 
they  be  called  and  howsoever  bounded  &  described  together 
with  all  wayes  profits  easments  lights  commodities  &  emolu 
ments  thereto  belonging  or  therewthall  used  &  enjoyed  or 
reputed  to  belong  and  all  rents  revercons  services  &  other 
hereditaments  therunto  belonging  whatsoever  and  all  deeds 
evidences  writings  escripts  <fc  minimcnts  whatsoever  concern 
ing  the  same  [6]  in  whose  custody  soever  they  be  And  also 
all  the  right  title  claime  interest  and  demand  of  the  said  John 
Hood  of  in  and  to  the  premises  &  every  partc  therof  To  have 
<fc  to  hold  the  said  houses  mesuages  outhouses  gardens  back 
sides  &  all  other  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances  whatso 
ever  unto  the  said  Thomas  Parish  his  heires  and  assignes  for 
ever  to  the  only  use  and  behoofe  of  the  said  Thomas  Parish 
his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever.  To  be  holden  of  the  cheife 
Lord  or  Lords  of  the  ffee  or  ffees  of  the  premises  by  the 
rents  &  services  therefore  due  &  of  right  accustomed.  And 
the  said  John  Hood  for  himselfe  his  heires  executors  adminis 
trators  £  assignes  Doth  covenant  promise  &  grant  to  and  with 
the  said  Thomas  Parish  his  heires  and  assignes  by  these  pres 
ents  that  he  the  said  Thomas  his  heires  &  assignes  shall  or 

was  a  physician,  though  in  the  custom-  from  these  papers  that  he  was  expecting 

house  record  called,  possibly  for  decep-  to  sail  for  England  in  the  autumn   of 

tion,  a  clothier.  .  .   .   Probably  he  went  1638.    (There  is  an  interval  of  more  than 

home,   living   at    Nayland,    county   of  three  years  between  the  recorded  birth  of 

Suffolk,  as  his  attorney,  Thomas  Dan-  his  children  :  Mary,  born  April  3,  1638, 

forth,  calls  him"  (Savage).     It  appears  and  Thomas,  July  21,  1641.)     [T.] 


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may  lawfully  from  time  to  time  &  at  all  times  hereafter  have 
hold  tt  enjoy  the  premises  &  every  parte  therof  freed  &  dis 
charged  of  and  from  all  judgments  statutes  merchant  &  of 
the  staple,  recognizances  bargaincs  sales  gifts  feoffmcnts 
Leases  joyntures  dowers  <fc  all  other  titles  troubles  &  charges 
incumbrances  whatsoever  except  only  such  estate  as  the  said 
Anne  hath  therin  without  the  let  trouble  or  eviction  of  the 
said  John  Hood  his  heircs  or  assignes  or  any  other  person  or 
persons  whatsoever  lawfully  clayming  from  from  by  or  under 
him  them  or  any  of  them.  And  that  he  the  said  John  Hood 
his  heires  &  assignes  shall  and  will  at  any  tyme  within  the 
space  of  scaven  yearcs  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  at 
the  reasonable  request  &  at  the  cost  &  charge  in  the  law 
of  the  said  Thomas  Parish  his  heires  or  assignes  make  doc 
&  execute  or  cause  to  be  made  done  £  executed  all  such 
further  &  other  assurance  &  assurances  in  the  law  whatsoever 
for  the  better  <fe  more  sure  making  £  conveying  the  premises 
unto  the  said  Thomas  his  heircs  &  assignes  as  by  the  said 
Thomas  his  heires  or  assignes  or  his  or  their  Counccll  learned 
in-  the  law  shalbc  reasonably  advised  or  required  soe  that  for 
the  doing  &  making  therof  the  said  John  Hood  his  heires 
and  assignes  shall  not  be  compelled  to  travcll  out  of  the  juris 
diction  of  the  Massachusetts  in  New  England.  And  the  said 
John  Hood  dotli  hereby  constitute  &  make  my  wclbclovcd 
George  Grissall  and  Roger  Marrct a  his  lawfull  attorneys 
ioyntly  or  severally  for  him  <fe  in  his  name  to  enter  into  and 
upon  the  prmiscs  &  possessions  therof  to  take  &  afterwards 
possession,  livery  &  seizin  thereof  to  deliver  over  unto  the 
said  Thomas  Parish,  his  heires  or  assignes  according  to  the 
Law  &  the  tenor  hereof  ratifying  and  allowing  whatsoever 
my  said  Attorneys  or  either  of  them  shall  lawfully  doc  in  the 
premises.  In  witncsse  whereof,  the  parties  abovesaid  have 

1  Roger  Marret  was  perhaps  a  rela-  distant.    Marrct,  Maryet,  Maryot,  Mar- 

tivc  and  townsman  of  Deacon  Thomas  riot,  and  perhaps  Marryatt,  arc  different 

Marrett,    of  Cambridge.      About    17G5  forms  of  the  same  original  surname,  and 

James  Harriot,  LL.D.,  owned  the  man-  are  all  now,  or  were  recently,  in  use  in 

or  of  Twinstead  Hall,  in  the  same  Hun-  England.     [T.] 
dred  with  Halstead,  and  about  six  miles 


14  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

hereunto  interchangeably  set  their  hands  &  scales  the  day  & 
yeare  first  abovewritten.     In  prncia:   [5s.  Hood  &  Parish.] 

Me  Johem  Hood  imp  de  Halsted  in  Com  Essex,  Textorcm, 
&  nunc  de  Cantabrigia  in  Nova  Anglia  plantatorem  tener'  &c. 
Thome  Parish  in  sexaginta  libris.  Dat.  22°  8. 

The  condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  said  John 
Hood  his  heires,  executors,  administrators  and  assignes,  shall 
from  time  to  time  and  at  all  tymes  hereafter,  observe,  kcepe, 
fiillfill  &  performe  all  and  every  such  covenants,  grants,  arti 
cles  &  agreements  on  their  parte  to  be  performed,  fulfilled, 
kept  &  observed,  as  they  [7]  are  menconed  and  conteyned  in 
one  paire  of  indentures  bearing  date  wth  these  prnts,  made 
betweene  the  said  John  Hood  of  the  one  parte  and  the  said 
Thomas  Parish  of  the  other  parte,  then  this  obligation  shall  be 
voyd  and  of  none  effect,  or  els  shall  be  and  .remaine  in  full 
power,  strength  <fc  vertue.  In  presencia.  [Is.  Hood  &  Parish.] 

Articles  of  agreement  indented  made  the  xxijth  day  of  October  in 
the  fourteenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord 
Charles  King  of  Engl.  etc.  Annoq  Dni  1038.  L'ctwcene  John 
Hood  <t'c.  of  tlie  one  parte  &  Thomas  Parish  &c.  of  the  other 
parte. 

Whereas  the  said  John  Hood  by  his  deed  indented  bearing 
date  herewith  hath  granted  &  conveyed  certaine  lands  &  tene 
ments  in  the -County  of  Essex  unto  the  said  Thomas  Parish 
his  heires  and  assignes  as  by  the  said  Deed  indented  more  at 
large  it  Doth  &  may  appearc  Now  it  is  covenanted  concluded 
declared  &  agreed  by  and  betweene  the  parties  aforesaid  that 
the  said  grant  &  conveyance  is  &  shall  be  upon  .this  speciall 
trust  &  confidence  that  the  said  Thomas  Parish  shall  sell  the 
said  Lands  &  Tenements  for  the  said  John  Hood  to  some 
person  or  persons  in  England  for  as  much  money  as  hee  by 
his  best  skill  and  endevours  can  get  for  the  same  &  rcturne 
the  said  money  unto  the  said  John  Hood  his  executors  ad 
ministrators  or  asss.  Itiii  that  the  said  John  Hood  his  heires 
executors  administrators  or  assignes  shall  <fc  will  from  tyme 
to  tyme  and  at  all  tymes  hereafter  save  &  keepc  harmclcsse 


LECJIFOnn'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  15 

the  said  Thomas  Parish  his  heires  executors  and  administra 
tors  of  and  from  all  accons  suits  troubles  charges  &  demands 
well  shall  any  waycs  arise  &  come  upon  or  be  brought  against 
the  said  Thomas  Parish  his  heires  executors  or  administrators 
for  or  by  reason  of  any  reasonable  coveiits  grants  articles 
agreements  bonds  conditions  assurances  &  conveyances  well 
the  said  Thomas  shall  enter  into  or  make  unto  the  purchaser 
or  purchasers  of  the  premises  according  to  the  true  meaning 
of  the  said  Peed  indented  <fc  of  these  presents.  Itiii :  that  the 
said  John  shall  give  unto  the  said  Thomas  for  his  labour  and 
charges  in  &  about  the  premises,  the  summc  of  twenty  shil 
lings,  if  he  effect  the  same  well  and  trustily ;  but  if  the  said 
Thomas  after  all  his  best  endcvours  cannot  effect  the  sale 
aforesaid  then  he  shall  have  only  tonne  shillings  for  his 
charges  thereabout.  Itfii :  that  if  the  premises  shall  not  be 
sold  as  aforesaid  that  then  the  said  Tlio :  his  heires  and  as- 
signes  shall  rcconvey  the  premises  unto  the  said  John,  his 
heirs,  and  assignes  or  to  whomesocver  he  or  they  shall  ap 
point  upon  reasonable  demand.  In  witnesse  whereof  the  par 
ties  abovcsaid  have  hereunto  interchangeably  set  their  hands 
&  sealcs  the  day  &  ycarc  first  above  written,  hi  prncia. 
[Hood  &  Parish  3s.] 

Me  Johciii  Mood  £c.  tenor'  Thome  Parish  in  scxaginta 
libris  etc.  Dat.  22?  8. 

The  condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  said  John 
Hood  his  heires  executors  administrators  and  assignes  shall 
from  time  to  time  and  at  all  tymes  hereafter  observe  kccpe 
fulUill  &  performe  all  and  every  such  Covenants  articles  decla 
rations  and  agreements  on  their  parts  to  be  observed  kept 
fullfilled  &  performed  as  are  mcnconcd  <fc  conteyncd  in  cer- 
taine  Articles  of  agreement  indented  Dated  we.h  these  presents 
made  betwcene  the  said  John  of  the  one  parte  &  the  said 
Thomas  Parish  of  the  other  parte  then  this  obligation  shall 
be  voyd  and  of  none  effect  or  els  shall  be  &  remaine  in  full 
power  strength  &  vcrtue.  [Hood  &  Parish  Is.] 

Me  Thoma  Parish  do  Cantabrigia  in  N.  A.  plantatorem, 
tcncr.  Join  Hood  in  GO1  Dat.  put  script0.  Condiconcd  ut 
supa,  mutatis  mutandis.  [1.] 


16  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[8]  Be  it  Knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I 
Samson  Shotton  J  of  Mount  Woollaston  in  New  England, 
planter,  doe  hereby  acknowledge  that  I  have  received  of  my 
brother  Anthony  Shotton  of  Cropston  in  the  county  of  Lei 
cester,  yeoman,  the  summe  of  fower  score  and  tenne  pounds 
of  lawfull  money  of  England,  given  and  bequeathed  unto  me 
as  a  legacy  by  the  last  will  &  testament  of  Thomas  Shotton 
late  of  Cropston  aforesaid,  our  father,  deceased,  and  thereof 
and  of  every  parte  thereof  I  doe  hereby  remise,  release,  and 
for  ever  quitt  clayme  the  sayd  Anthony  Shotton,  his  heires, 
executors  and  administrators,  And  also  I  doe  remise,  release 
and  for  ever  quitt  clayme  unto  the  said  Anthony  Shotton  all 
and  all  manner  of  accons,  suits,  debts,  iudgments,  statutes, 
recognizances,  trespasses  and  demands  whatsoever,  that  I 
have  or  may  have  against  him  or  them  for  any  cause,  matter 
or  thing  whatsoever  from  the  beginning  of  the  world  to  this 
present  day,  In  witnesse  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my 
hand  &  scale  the  twentie  second  day  of  October,  in  the  foure- 
tcenth  ycare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles 
King  of  England  Scotland  France  &  Ireland  <fcc.  Annocp. 
Dm.  1638. 

In  prsencia,  Thome  Savage,  Johis  Moore,  &  mei  Tho.  L. 
[Shotton  &  Shotton  8d.] 

In  the  Name  of  the  Lord  God  and  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
I  John  Newgate  2  of  Boston  in  New  England,  Planter,  being 
by  God's  grace  and  goodnesse  in  perfect  health  of  body  and 
soundncsse  of  judgment  in  minde  and  memory  cleare  and 
perfect,  doc  hereby  make  and  constitute  my  last  will 3  and 

1  One  of  the  partners  of  Gorton,  in  and   order   of  his  children   more  fully 
the  purchase  of  Shaomet  from  the  In-  than  his  last  will,  made   twenty-seven 
dians,  in  January,  1643  (  WintJi.,  ii.  121,  years  later,  which  is  printed  in  the  Hist. 
note);  Newport,  1638;  freeman,   1640,  and  Geneal.  Rcg.t    xiii.    333-335.     His 
but  disfranchised,  1641.     [T.]  eldest  son,  John,  and  third  son,  Joseph 

2  John  Newgate,  hatter,  of  Boston,  [Joshua  ?],  are  not  named  in   the   last 
had  been  a  London  merchant  but  came  will,  and  both  died  probably  before  their 
to  New  England  in  1632.     He  was  a  father.     Nathaniel, —who   was  one  of 
man  of  influence,  once  a  representative,  the  principal  men  of  Boston  in  1659, — 
and  many  times  selectman.  "  went  home,  probably  before  marriage," 

8  This  will,  made  in  contemplation     as  Mr.  Savage  thought.     [T.] 
of  a  voyage  to  England,  gives  the  names 


LECllFORirS   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  17 

testament  in  manner  and  forme  following  :  First,  I  doe  desire 
to  give  up  my  sonic  and  body  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  to  be 
disposed  according  to  his  good  will  and  pleasure  And  1  desire 
in   his  fearc  and   name   and   according  to  his   guidance  and 
direction  to  dispose  of   those  outward    good  tilings  that  the 
Lord  hath  given  and  possessed  me  of,  unto  the  children  that 
God  of  liis  grace  hath  given  me:  ffirst,  1  give  unto  my  eldest 
Sonne  .John  Newgate,  all  those  mv  Lands  and  Tenements  lying 
in  llorningerth   in   the   County  of   Suffolke  in   England   our 
native  country,  To  have  and  to  hold  the  same  to  him  and  his 
heires  for  ever.  But  my  will  is  that  my  wife  Anne  Newgate 
shall  have  the  rents,  profits  and  revenues  of  the  said  Lands 
&  Tenements  untill  my  said  sonnc  shall  attainc   the  age  of 
Twenty  and  foure  yeares,  for  and  towards  the  educating  and 
bringing  up  of  him  and  the  rest  of  my  Children,  And  also  that 
my   said  sonne  shall  pay  out  of  the  said  Lands  flifty  pounds 
unto   my   daughter    Sarah   and   flifty  pounds    more    unto  my 
daughter  Hannah,  at    her  age  of  twenty  one  yeares  or  daye 
of   marriage,  wch    it   shall    please    God   to   be   first,   for  wch 
payments  to  be  made  unto  them  when  my  said  sonne  shall 
come  to  his  age  of  Twenty  foure  yeares  hee  shall  cither  pay 
the    same   or   give   bond   to  my  said   daughters   for  payment 
thereof  as  soonc  as  he  can  make  sale  of  the   said  Lands  and 
Tenements   or   by  any  meanes   raise   the   moneys  out   of  the 
same.     But,  if  he  the  said  John  Newgate  my  sonne    [9]  shall 
refuse  to  give  such  bond   and  to  make  the  said   paymtH,  then 
the  said  lands  shall  be  sold  by  my  Executors  and  only  one 
hundred  and  flifty  pounds  shall  be  payd  unto  my  said  Sonne, 
and  the  rest  of  the  money  that  it  shall  be  sold  for  shall  be 
equally   divided   betwccno   my   other  children   and   my   wife. 
And  yet  if  my  said  sonnc  shall  be  stubborne  and  rebellious 
against  God   or   his  Church   or  his  mother   and  will  not  be 
reclaymed,  then  he  shall   have  but  thirty  pounds  of  the  said 
money    &   the   rest  to   be  divided   as  aforesaid.      Itm,   I    give 
unto  my  sonne  Nathanael  Newgate  my  house  in  Boston  afore 
said  wherin  1  now  dwell,  wth  that  little  ground  belonges  to  it, 
to  enter  upon  the  same  &  enjoy  it  to  him  and  his  heires  for 
ever  when  he  shall  accomplish  the  age  of  twenty  foure  yeares. 

2 


18  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

And  to  my  sonnc  Joseph  Newgate,  I  give  and  bequeath  those 
my  house  &  grounds  in  the  country  called  Rumney  Marsh  l  in 
N.  E.,  wch  hee  shall  likewise  enter  upon  <fe  enjoy  when  he  shall 
come  to  the  age  of  twenty  fourc  yeares.  Their  mother  shall 
have  the  use  &  profitt  of  these  last  mentioned  houses  in  Boston 
and  ut  Rumney  Marsh  untill  their  said  respective  ages,  for 
and  towards  their  education.  But  if  their  mother  dye  before 
either  of  those  times,  then  the  same  shall  presently  be  in  the 
hands  of  my  said  sonnes  Nathanael  &  Joseph  respectively 
according  to  my  true  meaning  herein  expressed.  Itm,  I  give 
and  bequeath  unto  my  daughter  Elizabeth  Oliver  tennc  pounds 
wcu  my  wjfe  s]iaii  jjay  m  moncy  or  moneys  worth  wtliin  twelve 
months  after  my  decease.  Item,  furthermore  my  will  is  that 
if  any  of  my  children  dye  before  they  come  to  enjoy  or  have 
right  to  these  legacyes  aforesd  then  their  &  every  of  their 
respective  porcons,  lands  &  legacyes  to  be  equally  divided  to 
and  among  my  said  other  children  surviving.  Itm,  all  the  rest 
of  my  estate  1  give  &  bequeath  unto  my  loving  wife  Anne 
Newgate  for  the  payment  of  my  debts  and  the  bringing  up 
of  my  children,  and  I  leave  it  to  her  discreation  to  give  to 
any  of  my  children  more  then  I  have  given  &  appointed  as 
she  shall  see  cause  and  when  she  shall  please.  Provided  all- 
waycs,  and  my  will  is,  that  if  it  shall  please  God  that  I  live 
to  sell  off  those  lands  in  Suffolke  aforesaid,  Then  I  give  it  to 
my  eldest  daughter  Elizabeth  Oliver  twenty  pounds  to  be  payd 
her  at  the  tyme  appointed  before  for  payment  of  the  said 
tenne  pounds,  and  I  give  my  said  eldest  sonnc  John  Newgate 
one  hundred  and  1'iifty  pounds,  and  to  my  daughter  Sara  three 
score  and  tenne  pounds,  and  to  my  daughter  Hannah  three 
score  <fc  tenne  pounds,  to  be  payd  unto  them  when  they  shall 
respectively  attainc  the  age  of  twenty  one  yeares  or  be  mar 
ried,  wch  of  them  shall  be  first.  And,  if  any  of  my  said  children 
become  stubborne  and  rebellious  against  God,  or  his  Church, 
or  their  mother,  then  such  child  or  children  shall  have  only 
the  fourth  parte  of  their  respective  legacyes  aforesd,  wch  I 
have  given  &  bequeathed  to  them  as  aforesaid,  and  the  other 

1  For  tliis  land  at  Rumney  Marsh,  sec  Boston  Town  llccords,  i.  '27,  and  also 
the  Note-book,  \>.  141,  post. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  19 

three  parts  the  rest  thereof  to  be  divided  among  my  other 
children.  And  all  the  rest  of  my  estate  be  it  more  or  lessc  I 
bequeath  unto  my  said  loving  wife  [10]  for  and  towards  the 
educating  and  bringing  up  of  my  children.  Provided  also 
that  if  I  shall  be  cast  away  at  sea  and  all  that  estate  that  I 
shall  bring  with  me  out  of  England  then  I  intreate  the  Church 
to  dispose  of  that  estate  I  have  heere  in  New  England  accord 
ing  to  their  wisedome  &  discreation,  unto  and  amongst  my 
children  and  my  wife,  as  they  shall  thinke  fitt,  anything 
hereinbefore  conteyned  to  the  contrary  thereof  in  any  wise 
notwithstanding.  Also  my  will  is  that  if  the  said  estate  wch 
1  shall  have  in  England  come  over  into  these  parts  of  New 
England,  then  I  give  &  bequeath  unto  Theodore  Athinson  l 
my  servant  twenty  pounds,  but  if  it  shall  be  lost  by  the  way 
by  sea  or  otherwise,  then  only  tcnne  pounds,  to  be  payd  him 
when  his  tyme  of  service  shall  be  expired.  And  I  make  and 
ordaine  my  said  wife  Anne  Newgate  and  John  Oliver2  my 
executors  of  this  my  will.  And  lastly,  I  doe  hereby  revoke 
and  annull  all  former  Avills  &  testaments  by  me  heretofore 
made  whatsoever.  In  witncsse  whereof  I  have  hereunto  sett 
my  hand  &  scale  the  xxiijfch  day  of  October  Anno  Dili  1638. 
Signed,  scaled,, published  <fc  declared  to  be  the  last  will  and 
testament  of  the  said  John  Newgate,  in  the  presence  of  us. 
Thomas  Savage  &  mci  T.  L.  [5s.  Newgate.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come 
I  William  Wilson3  of  Boston  in  New  England  planter  send 

1  "Theodore  Atkinson, Boston,  1634,  Thomas  Oliver,  and  son-in-law  of  New- 
felt-maker,  came  in  the  employment  of  gate,    having    married    Elizabeth,    his 
John  Newgate,  from  Bury,  in  Co.  Lan-  daughter.      "  1646,  April  11,  died  Mr. 
caster"    (Savage).     A    lot    at    Muddy  John  Oliver,"  says  Hull,  in  his  Diary, 
River  (Brookline),  for  two  persons,  was  "  one  of   choice  parts,   endued  with  a 
granted  him  by  the  town,  Aug.  31,  1640  ;  variety  of  able  gifts  for  the  generation  ; 
and  he  was  a  constable  in  1649,  and  clerk  but  God  took  him  away  in  his  youth,  to 
of  the   market  in    1655    (Drake's  Bos-  the  saddening  of  very  many  godly  hearts, 
ton,  pp.  253,  318,.  341).     His  first  wife  and  threatening  the  rising  generation." 
was  Abigail  (surname  unknown),  and  his  He  was  not  quite  thirty  years  old  at  the 
second  was  Mary,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  time  of  his  death. 

John  Wheelwright.     [T.]  8  William  Wilson,  a  joiner  by  trade, 

2  John    Oliver,    son    of    the    Elder     was  admitted  to  the  church  in  1635.     He 


20  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting  Knowe  yce  that  I  the 
said  William  Wilson  for  divers  good  causes  and  considera 
tions  me  thereunto  moving  have  demised  granted  &  farme 
letten  and  by  these  presents  doc  demise  grant  and  to  farme 
let  unto  William  Dinclcy  of  Boston  aforesaid  barber  all 
those  my  three  acres  «fc  halfo  of  meadow  or  pasture  ground 
more  or  lessc  called  Marshtoftc  lying  in  Dunnington  in  the 
County  of  Lincolne  abutting  upon  the  north  end  of  the  (Jop- 
pihold  land  of  my  brother  Thomas  Wilson  there  wch  said 
meadow  or  pasture  ground  my  ffather  William  Wilson  pur 
chased  of  one  Avis  ills  1  Ilavyo  of  Dunnington  Northrop  afore 
said  husbandman  deceased  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said 
meadow  or  pasture  ground  wth  the  appurtences  unto  the 
said  Willm  Dincloy  his  executors  administrators  and  as- 
signcs  from  the  day  of  the  date  of  these  presents  for  and 
during  the  space  of  seaven  dayes  from  thence  forth  fully 
to  be  coinpleat  and  ended  Tn  Witncsse  wherof  A:c.  22?  8. 
In  presencia  Mr  Richard  Waite  Willm  Pell  &  mei  Tho.  L. 
[1*.  Wilson  &  Dinclcy.2] 

This  Indent ure  made  the  T\venty  fourth  day  of  October  in 
the  fourcteenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord 
Charles  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of  England  Scotland  France 
&  Ireland  etc.  Anncxp  Dili  1038,  Uetwccnc  William  Wilson 
of  Boston  in  New  England,  Planter,  and  Patience  his  wife,  of 
the  one  partc,  and  John  Tinker  of  Boston  aforesaid,  planter, 
of  the  other  partc,  Witnesseth  that  the  said  William  Wilson 
[11]  and  Patience  his  wife  for  and  in  consideration  of  the 
summc  of  five  shillings  in  hand  payd  before  the  sealing  & 
delivery  of  these  presents  by  the  said  John  Tinker,  and  for 
divers  other  good  causes  &  Considerations  them  thereunto 

was  afterwards  deputy-marshal,  and  kept  -    This  short  lease,  like  that  of  Clem- 

the  prison,  wherein,  it  would  seem,  he  cut  to  Sailer,  and  of    Hood  to    Parish 

lived,  or  ;it    any  rate    Ids   widow   after  (pp.  1,  7,  ante),  was  made  only  for  the 

him  (lie  died  in  lG4t>).     The   General  purpose  of  facilitating  the  conveyance  of 

Court  was  forced  to  bribe  her  to  leave  the  fee,  by  interposing  a  fictitious  "  es- 

ijuietly,  as  she  imagined  that  it  belonged  tate  for  years,"  thereby  avoiding  livery 

to  her  by  right.  and  seizin  to  the  grantee  (in  trust)  or  to 

1  Avis,  alias  llavye.  the  future  purchaser.     [T.] 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  21 

moving  have  granted,  bargained,  sold,  enfcoffed  £  confirmed 
unto  the  said  John  Tinker,  All  those  three  acres  and  halfe  of 
meadow  or  pasture  ground  more  or  lesse,  called  Marshtofte, 
lying  in  Dunningtoii ]  in  the  County  of  Lincolne,  abutting 
upon  the  north  end  of  the  Coppihold  land  of  Thomas  Wilson 
brothci*  of  the  said  "William  Wilson  there,  wch  said  meadow 
or  pasture  ground  William  Wilson,  ffathcr  of  the  said  William 
Wilson  party  to  those  presents,  purchased  of  one  Avis  als 
Ilavyc  of  Duimington  Northrop  aforesaid,  husbandman,  de 
ceased,  Together  with  all  waves,  profits  &  commodities  there 
unto  belonging  or  reputed  to  belong  And  all  rents  rcvon-ons 
services,  and  other  hereditaments  thereunto  belonging  what 
soever  And  all  deeds  evidences  writings  escripts  and  minii- 
ments  whatsoever  concerning  the  same  in  whose  custody 
soever  they  be  And  also  all  the  right  title  claimc  interest 
and  demand  whatsoever  of  them  the  said  William  Wilson 
and  Patience  his  wife  of  iu  and  to  the  premises  and  every 
or  any  parte  thcrof  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  meadow 
or  pasture  ground  rents  rcvercons  services  and  all  and  sin 
gular  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unlo 
the  said  John  Tinker  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever  To 
the  only  use  &  proper  bchoofe  of  the  said  John  Tinker  his 
heires  and  assignes  for  ever  To  be  holdcn  of  the  chcife  Lord 
or  Lords  of  the  iTee  or  ffees  of  the  premises  by  the  rents 
and  services  therefore  due  tfe  of  right  accustomed.  And  the 
said  William  Wilson  and  Patience  his  wife  doe  for  them 
selves  their  heires  executors  administrators  and  assignes 
Covenant  promise  &  grant  to  and  with  the  said  John  Tinker 
his  heires  and  assignes  by  these  presents  that  he  and  they 
shall  or  may  lawfully  have  hold  and  enjoy  the  premises  and 
every  parte  thcrof  freed  and  discharged  of  all  Judgments 
Statutes,  merchant  &  of  the  Staple,  recognizances  bariraincs 
sales  gifts  grants  fcoffments  wills  ioyntures  dowers  titles 
troubles  charges  &  incumbranccs  whatsoever  from  time  to 

1  Dunnington,  or  Donnington,  about  Northrop  was  crossed  out  by  Lechford, 

six  miles  southwesterly  from  Boston,  iu  both  in  the  short  lease  and  (at  its  first 

Lincolnshire.     The  name  was  originally  occurrence)  in  this  deed  to  John  Tinker, 

written  Dunnington  Northrop,  but  the  [T.j 


22  LECUFOllD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  without  the  lett  trouble  or 
eviction  of  them  the  said  William  Wilson  &  Patience  their 
lieires  or  assignes  or  of  any  other  person  or  persons  what 
soever.  And  that  they  the  said  Willm  Wilson  &  Patience  their 
heires  and  assignes  shall  &  will  from  time  to  time  and  at 
all  times  hereafter  at  the  reasonable  request  and  cost  and 
charges  in  the  law  of  the  said  John  Tinker  his  heires  or 
assignes  make  and  acknowledge  or  cause  to  be  made  & 
acknolcdged  any  further  assurances  or  conveyances  in  the 
law  whatsoever  for  the  better  &  more  sure  setling  <t  con 
veying  the  premises  unto  &  upon  the  said  John  Tinker  his 
heires  [12]  and  assignes  according  to  the  true  intent  & 
meaning  of  these  presents  so  as  the  said  William  Wilson 
and  Patience  his  wife  or  their  heires  or  assignes  be  not 
compelled  to  travell  out  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Massa 
chusetts  in  New  England  for  the  making  or  acknowledging 
thereof  And  the  said  William  Wilson  and  Patience  his 
wife  doe  hereby  constitute  and  make  their  welbeloved  Richard 
Tunnard,  and  Thomas  Wilson,  brother  of  the  said  William, 
their  true  and  lawful  Attorneys,  joyntly  or  severally  for  them 
the  said  William  and  Patience  and  in  their  names  to  enter 
into  and  upon  the  premises  and  quiet  &  peaceable  possession 
thereof  to  take  and  afterwards  quiet  and  peaceable  possession 
livery  and  seizin  thcrof  to  deliver  over  unto  the  said  John 
Tinker  his  heires  and  assignes  according  to  the  purporte 
and  true  meaning  of  these  prsents  ratcfying  and  allowing 
whatsoever  their  said  Attorneys  shall  lawfully  doe  in  the 
premises.  In  witnesse  whereof  the  parties  above  sayd  have 
hereunto  interchangeably  sett  their  hands  and  scales  the 
day  and  yeare  first  above  written.  In  prncia  nril.  dcor 
Testin  ore  Attornem*  V  Willm  Dynely  indorse  sur  le  fait,  fact 
20°  8,  &c.  coram  nobis.  [5s.  Wilson  &  Tinker.] 

Me  Willm  Wilson  Do  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  Plantatorcm 
tener  &c.  JohT  Tinker  in  Centum  libris  &°.  dat.  24.  8.  In 
prncia  nrn.  dcor  Testin.  The  Condicon  of  this  Obligation 
is  such  that  if  the  said  William  Wilson  and  Patience  his 
wife  their  heires  executors  administrate  and  assiimcs  shall 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  23 

from  lime  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  observe  keepe 
fulliill  and  performe  all  such  articles  agreements  grants  & 
Covenants  on  their  parte  to  be  observed  kept  fullfillcd  and 
performed  as  they  are  mentioned  and  contcyncd  in  one 
pairc  of  Indentures  bearing  date  wth  these  presents  made 
bctweenc  the  said  William  Wilson  of  the  one  parte  and  the 
said  John  Tinker  of  the  other  parte  Then  this  obligacon 
shall  1)0  voyd  and  of  none  effect  or  els  shall  remaine  &  be 
in  full  power  strength  and  vertnc.  [Is.  Wilson  &  Tinker.] 

Articles  of  agreement  indented  made  the  twenty-fourth  day  of  Octo 
ber,  in  the  four  ctecnth  yeare  of  the  Raiane  of  our  Sovcraifl-nc  Lord 
Charles  Inj  the.  grace-  of  God  King  of  England  Scotland  France  and 
Ireland  tfo.  Annoy  Dni  1638  flctwccnc  WILLIAM  WILSON  of 
Boston  in  New  England  Planter  of  the  one  parte  and  JOHN 
TINKER  of  Boston  aforesaid  planter  of  the  oilier  parte. 

Whereas  the  said  William  Wilson  and  Patience  his  wife 
have  by  their  deed  indented  bearing  date  wth  these  presents 
granted  <fc  conveyed  certaino  meadow  or  pasture  ground  lying 
in  Dunnington  in  the  County  of  Lincolne  unto  the  said  John 
Tinker  [13]  his  hcires  and  assigncs  for  ever  as  more  at  large 
by  the  said  deed  indented  it  dotli  &  may  appearc  Now  it  is 
Covenanted  concluded  declared  and  agreed  by  and  betwecne 
the  parties  aforesaid  that  the  said  grant  and  conveyance  is  and 
shall  be  upon  this  spcciall  trust  and  confidence  that  the  said 
John  Tinker  shall  sell  the  premises  for  them  unto  some  per 
son  or  persons  in  England  for  as  much  money  as  he  by  his  best 
skill  and  endevours  can  get  for  the  same.  Item,  that  the 
moneys  the  premises  shall  be  sold  for  shall  be  disposed,  first 
of  all  towards  the  payment  of  the  debts  of  the  said  William 
Wilson's  father,  and  next  towards  the  bringing  over,  passage 
and  provisions  of  Alice  Wilson,  mother  of  the  said  William 
into  these  parts  of  New  England,  if  she  please  to  come,  wherein 
the  said  John  shall  well  and  faithfully  help  and  advise  the 
said  Alice. 

Item,  that  the  said  John  shall  receive  five  pounds  and  tenne 
shillings  thereof  for  his  labour  and  charges  thereabout ;  and 
the  residue  of  the  said  money  to  be  to  the  said  Alice  Wilson. 


24  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Itiri  that  the  said  William  Wilson  &  Patience  and  their 
hcircs  execute  admors  and  assignes  shall  from  time  to 
tyme  and  at  all  tymcs  hereafter  save  &  keepe  harmelesse 
the  said  John  his  hcircs  executors  &  administrators  of  and 
from  all  actions  suits  troubles  charges  &  demands  wch 
shall  any  wayes  arise  and  come  upon  or  be  brought  against 
him  or  them  for  or  by  reason  of  any  reasonable  grants  cove 
nants  agreements  bonds  condicons  or  other  assurances  wch 
the  said  John  shall  be  required  to  enter  into  or  make  unto 
the  purchasor  or  purchasors  of  the  premises  according  to  the 
purport  of  the  said  Deed  indented  &  of  these  presents. 

Itm  if  the  said  Lands  cannot  be  sold  after  all  the  best 
endevours  of  the  said  John  therein  to  that  purpo'se  then 
the  'said  John  shall  have  only  fforty  shillings  for  his  paynes 
&  charges  thereabout  and  shall  upon  reasonable  demand 
rcconvey  the  premises  to  the  said  William  Wilson  his  heircs 
and  assignes  or  to  whomsoever  lice  or  they  shall  appoint. 
Iii  witnesse  whereof  the  parties  aforesaid  have  to  these 
presents  interchangeably  sett  their  hands  and  scales  the 
day  and  year  first  above  written  In  prncia  nrii.  dcor 
Tcstin.  [3s.  4iZ.  Wilson  £  Tinker.] 

Me  Johciii  Tinker  de  Boston  in  N.  A.  Plantat.  tener  Will 
Wilson  in  1001  Dat.  24.  8.  In  prncia  nrn.  dcor  Testin. 

The  condicon  &°.  to  kecpc  Covents  &c.  in  the  said  articles 
put  <fc? 

[Is.  Tinker  &  Wilson.] 

Me  Willm   Wilson  De  Boston   in  N.  A.  Plantat.  tener  &° 
John    Tinker  in    100H    Dat.    24.     8.      In    prncia   mTi.   dcor 
Tcstin. 

Condiconed  ut  sup?  Rec.  pfc.  in  garden  fruits.  [Is.  Wilson 
&  Tinker.] 

[14]  To  all  Christian  People  to  whomc  these  presents  shall 
come  I  Thomas  Dexter  of  Lynnc  in  New  England,  yeoman, 
send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting,  Knowe  Yce  that 
for  my  naturall  love  and  good  affection  that  I  beare  unto  my 
sonne  &  heire  apparent  Thomas  Dexter  &  for  other  good 


LECHFORD'S   MAXi'SCRIPT  XOTE-BOOK.  2;"> 

causes  <fc  considerations  me  thereunto  moving,  1  have  given 
and  granted  and  by  these  })resenis  doe  give  <fc  grant  unto  the 
said  Thomas  Dexter  my  sonne,  One  mansion  house  and  all 
outhouses,  barncs,  stables,  cowhouses  &  the  appurtenances, 
and  one  water  mill  wth  the  appurtenances,  and  six  hundred 
acres  of  land  meadow  and  pasture  to  the  said  mansion  house 
belonging,  lying  and  being  in  Sandwich  by  the  Indians  here 
tofore  called  Shawine,  wthin  the  Jurisdiceon  of  the  Pal  cut  of 
Plymouth  in  New  England,  and  all  woods,  underwoods,  com 
mons  &  appurtenances  to  the  same  pcrteyning  whatsoever,  To 
have  and  to  hold  the  said  Mansion  house  &  premises,  wth  all 
it  siugularc  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Thomas  Dexter 
my  sonno  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever,  to  the  only  use 
it  proper  behoofe  of  the  said  Tho :  Dexter  my  sonne  his  heires 
and  assignes  for  ever.  And  also  I  doe  for  the  considerations 
aforesaid  give  &  grant  unto  the  said  Thomas  Dexter  my 
sonnc,  one  plough  or  teamc  \vth  fourc  oxen  it  one  horse  or 
mare,  wth  all  necessaries  to  the  same,  To  have  it  to  hold  to 
him  my  said  sonne,  his  executors,  administrators  and  assignes 
for  ever.  And  I  grant  it  hereby  promise  to  my  said  sonne 
that  if  he  shall  not  think  good  to  accept  of  the  premises 
hereby  granted,  that  I  will  pay  him  the  summe  of  live  hundred 
pounds  upon  reasonable  demands.  In  witnessc  whereof  I 
have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  scale,  the  twenty  fourth  day 
of  October  in  the  fourctecnth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our 
Soueraigne  Lord  Charles  King  of  England  etc.  Annocp  Dili 
1638. l  In  prncia  nrn.  Anthonij  fcwiinmer  ct  mci  T.  L. 
[2s.  Qd.  Dexter  &  Dexter.] 

[15]  This  Indenture  made  the  thirtieth  day  of  October  in 
the  fouretcenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Sovcraignc  lord 
Charles  by  the  grace  of  Cod  King  of  England  Scotland 

1  On  a  subsequent  page  will  lie  found  returne  into  these  parts  of  New  Eng- 
a  bond  given  by  Thomas  Dexter,  the  l;md,  or  not  lie  well  advanced  in  mar- 
son,  in  consideration  of  this  deed,  for  riage  according  to  the  good  likeing  of 
the  payment  of  £100  to  each  of  his  the  said  Thomas."  One  of  the  daugh- 
sisters,  Mary  and  Frances  Dexter,  in  ters  of  Thomas  Dexter,  Sr.,  married 
case  the  said  Thomas  (junior)  "should  John  Friend,  of  Boston,  October,  1639 
marry  a  wife  and  dye  at  sea  before  lus  (see  pp.  20,  21,  j)ost).  [T.] 


26  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

France  &  Ireland  &c.  Annocp  Dili  1038,  Betweene  Katherine 
Coytmorc,1  late  of  Wapping  in  the  County  of  Middlesex], 
and  now  of  Charles  Towne  in  New  England,  widdowc,  In 
crease  Nowell2  of  Charles  Towne  aforesaid,  Esqr,  &  Parnell 
his  wife,  Thomas  Graves  of  Wapping  aforesaid,  mariner,  & 
Katherine  his  wife,  and  Mary  Eaglesfeild  daughter  &  hcirc 
of  Susanna  Eglesfeild  deceased,  sister  of  the  said  Parnell  & 
Katherine  Graves,  all  three  daughters  of  Thomas  Grey,  late 
of  Harwich  in  the  county  of  Essex  mariner,  deceased,  &  of 
the  said  Katherine  Coytmorc  sometimes  his  wife,  of  the  one 
parte,  and  Robert  Kidd  of  Sutton  in  the  county  of  Suffolke, 
yeoman,  of  the  other  parte,  witnesseth,  that  the  said  Kather 
ine  Coytmore,  Increase  Nowell  &  Parnell  his  wife,  Thomas 
Graves  &  Katherine  his  wife,  and  Mary  Eaglesfeild,  for  and 
in  consideration  of  the  somme  of  flive  hundred  &  fiifty  pounds 
of  lawfiill  money  of  England  to  them  in  hand  payd  before  the 
sealing  and  delivery  of  these  presents  by  the  said  Robert  Kidd, 
whcrof  and  wherewith  the  said  Katherine  Coytmore  Increase 
&  Parnell  Thomas  Graves  &  Katherine  his  wife  &  Mary  doe 
acknowledge  themselves  to  be  satisfied  &  payd  &  therof  and 
of  every  parte  therof  doe  remise  release  &  for  ever  quitt 
clayme  the  said  Robert  Kidd  his  heires  executors  adminis 
trators  and  assignes  by  these  presents  Have  aliened,  granted 
and  cnfcoffed,  and  by  these  presents  doe  alien  grant  and  cn- 
feofi'e  unto  said  Robert  Kidd,  the  one  moity  and  halfendeale 

1  This  indenture  supplies  some  addi-  fluous  to  remark  that  this   Airs.  Coyt- 

tional  information,  respecting  the  family  more  was  not,  at  a  later  period,  Gov- 

of   Airs.  Coytmore,  to  that  which    has  ernor  Winthrop's  wife,   but   his   wife's 

been    gathered    by   Mr.    Froth inglmm  mother-in-law. 

(History  of  C'hnrlcstown,  p.  86)  and  2  Increase  Nowell  came  with  Win- 
Mr.  Savage,  showing  that  she  was  the  throp  in  1630  ;  and  was  one  of  the  found- 
daughter  of  Robert  Myles,  of  Sutton,  er.s  of  the  church  at  Charlestown.  He 
County  Suffolk,  and  had  by  her  first  was  at  first  Ruling  Elder  ;  but  it  being 
husband,  Thomas  Grey,  of  Harwich,  thought  that  he  could  not  hold  this 
County  Khsex,  three  daughters  :  Par-  oflice  together  with  that  of  assistant, 
nell  (married  Increase  Nowell),  Kath-  he  gave  it  up.  He  was  for  many  years 
erine  (married  Thomas  Graves),  and  Secretary  of  the  Colony,  and  was  as- 
Susanna  (married  —  Eaglesfield),  who  sistant  from  1629  to  his  death  in  1G55. 
died  before  the  making  of  this  inden-  His  wife  was  Parnell  Grey,  daughter  of 
ture,  leaving  one  daughter,  Mary  Ka-  Katherine  Coytmore  by  Thomas  Grey, 
glesticld.  [T.]  It  is  probably  super-  as  here  shown. 


LECffFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  27 

of  all  and  singulare  those  freehold  lands  and  tenements  late 
of  Robert  Myles,  of  Sutton  aforcsayd,  yeoman,  deceased, 
fl'ather  of  the  said  Kathcrine  Coytmore,  now  or  late  in  the 
tenure  or  occupation  of  the  said  Robert  Kidd  or  his  assignes, 
situate,  lying  <fc  being  in  Sutton  aforesaid,  and  in  the  manners 
or  towncs  or  villages  of  Sutton  Storkerland  <fc  Campscy, 
Houslyc,  Setleburgh,  Ufford,  Blacksall,  or  any  other  towncs, 
villages,  hamlets  or  mannors,  wthin  the  county  of  Stiff, 
wheresoever,  wth  all  and  singulare  the  appurtenances  thereof, 
And  all  deeds,  evidences  writings  escripts  &  minuments 
whatsoever  concerning  the  same  in  whose  custody  soever 
they  be  that  they  the  said  Katherine  Coytmore  Increase  £ 
Par  noil  Thomas  Graves  and  Katherine  his  wife  &  Mary  or 
any  of  them  caii  or  may  come  by  wthout  suit  of  law.  And 
all  their  &  every  of  their  right  title  clay  me  interest  and  de 
mand  of  in  and  to  the  premises  and  every  parte  &  parccll 
thereof  To  have  &  to  hold  the  said  moity  &  halfendealc  of 
the  said  ffreehold  Lands  &  Tenements  &  all  &  singulare  the 
premises  wth  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Robert  Kidd 
his  hoi  res  &  assignes  for  ever  To  the  only  use  &  proper  be- 
hooi'c  of  the  said  Robert  Kidd  his  heircs  £  assignes  forever 
To  be  holdcn  of  the  cheife  Lord  or  Lords  of  the  flee  or  ffccs  of 
the  premises  by  the  rents  &  services  therefore  due  &  of  right 
accustomed.  And  they  the  said  Katherine  Coytmore  In 
crease  <fe  Parncll  Thomas  Graves  &  Katherin  his  wife  [16] 
and  Mary  doe  for  themselves  their  heircs  executors  and  ad- 
ministrat"  Covenant  promise  and  grant  to  and  wth  the  said 
Robert  Kidd  his  heires  and  assignees  by  these  presents  that 
hee  it  they  shall  or  may  lawfully  from  tyme  to  tyme  &  at 
all  tymes  hereafter  have  hold  &  enjoy  the  premises  hereby 
granted  and  every  parrte  thereof  freed  &  discharged  of  & 
from  all  former  <fc  other  grants  bargains  sales  fcoffments 
iudgmcnts  statutes,  merchant  £  of  the  Staple,  Recognizances 
(lines  issues  amcrciamcnts  Joynturcs  dowers  titles  of  dower 
and  of  and  from  all  other  titles  troubles  charges  &  incum- 
brances  whatsoever  had  made  done  or  suffered  or  to  be  had 
made  done  or  suffered  by  the  said  Katherine  Coytmore  In 
crease  and  Parncll  Thomas  Graves  &  Katherine  his  wife  & 


28  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Mary  their  heircs  or  assignes  or  any  of  them  or  hy  their  or 
any  of  their  assent  meanes  or  procurement  wthout  the  let 
trouble  or  eviccon  of  them  or  any  of  them  or  of  any  other 
person  or  persons  lawfully  clayming  from  by  or  under  them 
or  any  of  them  And  Also  that  they  &  every  of  them  their 
and  every  of  their  heircs  and  assignes  shall  &  will  from 
time  to  tyme  and  at  all  tymes  hereafter  wthin  the  space  of 
twenty  ycarcs  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  at  the  reasonable 
request  and  at  the  cost  &  charges  in  the  law  of  the  said 
Robert  Kidd  his  heircs  or  assignes  make  doe  acknowledge 
levy  &  suffer  or  cause  to  be  made  done  acknowleged  Icvyed 
&  suffered  all  and  every  such  farther  &  other  lawfull  &  rea 
sonable  act  &  acts  thing  &  things  assurances  &  conveyances 
in  the  law  whatsoever  for  the  more  better  &  sure  conveying 
&  sure  making  of  the  premises  hereby  granted  &  every  parte 
thcrof  unto  the  said  Robert  Kidd  his  heircs  ancl  assignes  as 
by  him  or  them  or  his  or  their  Councell  learned  in  the  Lawe 
shall  be  reasonably  advised  devised  or  required  soe  that  for 
the  making  doing  acknowledging  levying  or  suffering  thcrof 
the  said  Katherinc  Coytmore  Increase  &  Parnell  Thomas 
Graves  and  Katherine  his  wife  &  Mary  their  heires  and 
assignes  or  any  of  them  be  not  compelled  to  travcll  out  of 
the  Jurisdiccon  of  the  Massachusetts  in  New  England.  And 
the  said  Katherine  Coytmore  Increase  &  Parnell  Thomas 
Graves  &  Katherine  his  wife  &  Mary  have  constituted  and 
ordained,  ct  in  their  place  have  put,  &  by  these  p'scnts  do  con 
stitute  &  ordaine  &  in  their  place  put  their  welbeloved  &  hon 
oured  friends  Sr  William  Wiseman  of  Canfeild  Hall1  in  the 
county  of  Essex,  Knight  and  Baronet,  Robert  Mather  of  Sutton 
aforesaid,  gent.,  and  Henry  llalfin  of  the  same,  yeoman,  their 
true  and  lawfull  atturneys,  ioyntly  &  severally  for  them  <fc  in 
their  names  to  enter  into  &  upon  the  premises  hereby  grated 

1  Sir    William   Wise-man,    created  a  He  was  born  in  1GOO,  and  succeeded  to 

baronet  in  1628,  and  appointed  she* riff  the  family  estates  on  the  death  of  his 

of  the  County  of    I-^sex  in  IGoS,  was  elder  brother,   Robert,  April  21,   1028. 

the   second   son   of  Thomas  Wiseman,  He    had   three    sisters,    named    Mary, 

"  who  married  Alice,  daughter  and  heir  Susan,    and  Parnell  (Morant's   History 

of  Robert  Mylcs  of  Sutton,  in  Suffolk,  of  Essex,  ii.  283,  4G2).     [T.] 
ES<I.,"   and   sistiT   of    Mrs.    Coytmore. 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  29 

&  possession  tlicrof  to  take,  and  after  such  possession  thcrof 
liad  <fc  taken  for  thorn  <fc  in  thoir  names  full  <fc  peaceable  pos 
session,  loving  and  Seizin  tlicrof  unto  the  said  Robert  Kidd 
or  his  eertaine  Atturney  in  this  behalfe  to  deliver  according 
to  the  tenor  force  forme  <t  effect  of  these  presents  Ratefying 
tt  allowing  all  &  whatsoever  their  said  Attorney  or  Attor 
neys  or  any  or  cither  of  them  shall  doe  in  the  premises  In 
witnessc  whereof  the  partyes  aboucsaid  have  hereunto  inter 
changeably  sett  their  hands  and  scales  the  day  and  yearc  first 
abovcAvritten,  In  prncia  nrii.  Johis  Wintrop  &  me  T.  L.  Signed 
sealed  <fc  dd.  by  Kathcrine  Coytmorc  Increase  N.  &  Parncll  his 
wife  &  Mary  B.  in  prncia  nrii.  [6s.  Sd.  5s.  0.  Mrs.  Coytmorc 
&  others  &  Ividd.] 

[17]  To  all  Christian  people  to  whomc  these  presents  shall 
come  Wee  Katherine  Coytmorc  late  of  Wapping  in  the  County 
of  Midd  and  now  of  Charles  Townc  in  New  England  Widdow 
Increase  Nowcll  of  Charles  Townc  aforesaid  Esqr.  &  Parnell  his 
wife  Thomas  Graves  of  Wapping  aforesaid  Mariner  &  Kather 
ine  his  wife  and  Mary  Eaglesfeild  Daughter  &  hcirc  of  Susanna 
Eaglesfcild  deceased,  Sister  of  the  said  Parnell  &  Katherine 
Craves  all  three  daughters  of  Thomas  Grey  late  of-IIanvich  in 
the  County  of  Essex  Mariner  &  of  the  said  Katherine  Coytmorc 
sometimes  his  wife  send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlast 
ing,  Kuowe  yee  that  AVO  have  made  constituted  ordained  and 
appointed  and  by  these  presents  do  make  constitute  ordaine  & 
appoint  our  Avelbelovcd  and  honoured  ffriends  Sr  William  Wise 
man  of  Canfcild  Hall  in  the  County  of  Essex  Knight  &  Baro 
net  Robert  Mather  of  Sutton  in  the  County  of  Suff.  gent  and 
Henry  Ilalfin  of  the  same  yeoman  and  every  of  them  severally 
our  sufficient  and  lawfull  Atturnoy  and  Atturnevs  at  some 
Court  or  Courts  holdcn  for  the  Mannor  or  severall  Mannors  of 
Sutton,  Sutton  Storkerland  &  Campsey  Ilouslye,  Setleburgh, 
Ul'ford,  Blacksall  or  any  other  Mannor  or  Mannors  \vthin  the 
County  of  Suffolk e  or  for  any  the  said  Mannors  for  us  or  any  of 
us  and  in  our  names  steads  &  places  or  in  the  name  stead  or 
place  of  any  of  us  to  surrender  into  the  hands  of  the  Lord  or 
severall  Lords  of  the  said  Mannor  or  Mannors  the  one  moity  and 


80  LECll FORD'S  MAX  l>  SCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

halfendoalc  of  all  those  our  Coppihold  or  Customary  lands 
mcsuagcs  or  Tenements  late  of  Robert  Mylcs  of  Sutton  afore 
said  yeoman  deceased  ffathcr  of  the  said  Katlierine  Coytmorc 
now  or  late  in  the  tenure  or  occupation  of  Robert  Kidd  of  Sutton 
aforesaid  yeoman  or  his  a$ss  and  all  our  or  any  of  our  Coppy- 
liold  or  Customary  lands  tenements  &  hereditaments  whatso 
ever  in  the  said  Manner  or  Manners  [18]  holden  of  the  said 
Maimor  or  Mannors  or  any  of  them  by  Coppy  of  Court  Roll  to 
the  only  use  &  hehoofe  of  the  said  Robert  Kidd  his  hcircs  and 
assignes  according  to  the  custome  &  sevcrall  customes  of  the 
said  Maimor  or  Mannors  And  further  for  us  and  every  or  any 
of  us  and  in  our  names  &  places  and  in  the  name  or  place  of 
every  or  any  of  us  to  doc  execute  and  suffer  or  cause  to  be  done 
executed  &  suffered  all  and  every  such  further  lawfull  act  and 
acts  tiling  &  things  whatsoever  whereby  the  said  moity  and 
halfendeale  of  the  said  Coppihold  or  Customary  mcsuagcs  lands 
Tenements  &  hereditaments  late  of  Robert  Mylcs  aforesaid 
now  or  late  in  the  tenure  or  occupacon  of  the  said  Robert  Kidd 
may  be  lawfully  surrendered  sctlcd  estated  assured  and  con 
veyed  upon  him  the  said  Robert  Kidd  his  heires  and  asss  accor 
ding  to  the  custome  or  severall  customes  of  the  said  Maimor  or 
Mannors  as  to  them  our  said  Atturneys  or  any  or  either  of  them 
shall  secmc  nicctc  fit  or  expedient  Ratcfying  allowing  approv 
ing  and  confirming  all  and  every  such  thing  and  tilings  as  our 
said  Attorney  or  Attorneys  or  any  or  cither  of  them  shall  doe 
execute  or  suffer  touching  and  concerning  the  execution  and 
performance  of  this  their  power  and  authority  to  them  and 
every  of  them  herein  and  hereby  granted.  In  witnesse  where 
of  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  and  scales  the  thirtieth  day 
of  October  in  the  fourteenth  ycare  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Sover- 
aigne  Lord  Charles  by  the  grace  of  God  of  England  Scotland 
France  &  Ireland  Arc.  KingAnnocp  Dili  1638.  In  prncia  nrii. 
Johis  Wintrop  &  mci  T.  L.  [Mri.3  Coytmorc  &  others  and  Sr 
Williii  Wiseman  &  others  3s.  4d.  3*.  4cZ.] 

Me  Kathcrinam  Coytmorc  imp  de  Wapping  in  Com.  Mi  etc?  et 
mine  dc  Villa  Caroli  in  Nova  Anglia  viduam  tencr  &c.  Willo 
Wiseman  De  Aula  de  Canfeild  in  Com  Essex  Militi  et  Baronetto 


LECUEomrs  MAxuscnirr  NOTE-KOOK.          "1 

in  inillo  libris  <tc.  Dat.  oO.S.  enram  nobis  .lobe  AVinlrnp  £  me 
T.  L. 

Tlic  Condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  whereas  the 
said  Kathoriuc  Coytmorc  together  wth  Increase  Nowell  Esqr 
and  Parnell  his  wife  and  Thomas  Graves  Mariner  and  Kath- 
crinc  his  wife  &  Mary  Eaglcsfcild  have  by  their  deed  indented 
made  bctwccnc  them  of  the  one  partc  <fc  .Robert  Kidd  of  the 
other  purte  for  the  snmme  of  live?  hundred  and  nifty  pounds 
of  lawful  I  money  of  England  aliened  granted  tt  enfcoffcd 
and  made  their  letter  of  Attorney  for  the  surrendring  the  one 
moity  and  lialfcndeale  of  ccrtainc  ffrechold  and  Coppihold 
mesuages  lands  tenements  &  hereditaments  late  of  Robert 
Mylcs  deceased,  ffather  of  the  said  Kathcrine  Coytmorc  <fc 
nov,r  or  lahi  in  the  occ.upaiion  or  possession  of  the  said 
Robert  Kidd  lying  &  being  in  the  sevcrall  Mannor  or  Mau- 
nors  Towncs  villages  or  hamlets  of  Sutton,  Button  Storker- 
laml  and  Campsey  Ilouslye  Sctleburgh  Ufford  Blacksell  or 
[19]  any  other  Maimor  or  Mannors  Towncs  villages  or  Ilam- 
blets  wtliin  the  County  of  Suffolke  whatsoever  unto  tlu^  said 
Robert  Kidd  his  heires  and  assignes  and  unto  his  juid  their 
use  for  ever  as  by  the  said  deed  indented  and  Letter  of 
Attorney  both  bearing  date  wth  these  prnts  more  at  large  it 
doth  and  may  appcarc  And  by  the  last  will  and  testament 
of  Thomas  Orcy,  sometimes  husband  of  the  said  Katherine 
Coytmore  it  is  appointed,  willed  &  devised  that  when  the 
said  hinds  &  tenements  should  be  sold  by  the  said  Kathcrine 
Coytmore,  slice  should  enter  into  one  bond  of  a  thousand 
pounds  condiconed  that  she  should  with  the  said  moneys 
raised  by  sale  of  the  said  lands  and  tenements,  buy  tt  pur 
chase  lands  for  the  use  £  bchoofe  of  hcrselfe  for  her  life 
and  afterwards  for  the  use  and  bchoofe  of  the  said  Parnell 
and  Katherine  Graves  and  Susanna  Eaglcsfcild,  and  their 
hcircs  or  woh  said  Susanna  dying  left  the  said  Mary  her 
daughter  and  heirc,  If  therefore  the  said  Kathcrine  Coytmorc 
shall  accordingly  wth  the  said  five  hundred  and  fifty  pounds 
purchase  ct  buy  land  to  and  for  the  use  &  bchoofe  of  her- 
sclfc  for  her  life  and  afterwards  for  the  use  and  behoof c 
of  the  said  Parnell  <fe  Kathcrine  Graves  £  Mary  and  their 


32  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

heires,  Then  tins  obligation  shall  be  voyd  and  of  none  effect, 
or  els  shall  rcmaine  &  be  in  full  power  strength  and  vertuc. 
[Mr.3  Coytniore  &  Sr  Williii  Wiseman  2s.  Gd.  2.6.  Is.  0.] 

To  all  Christian  people  Unto  whome  these  presents  shall 
come,  I  John  Cotton,1  Teacher  of  the  Church  at  Boston  in 
New  England   send  greeting  in   our  Lord   God  everlasting : 
Whereas  Edmund  Diggle,  laic  of  Sutterton2  in  the  parts  of 
Holland  in  the  County  of  Lincolnc,  Clerke,  deceased,  by  his 
last  will  &  testament  made  &  ordained  me,  the  said  John 
Cotton,  Overseer  of  his  said  last  will  &  testament,  Now  Knowe 
yce,  that  because  I  rcmaine  by  the  good  providence  of  God  in 
these  parts  of  New  England,  &  for  divers  good  causes  <fc  con 
siderations  me  thcrimto  moving,  1  have  constituted,  made  & 
ordained.,  &  by  these  presents  doe  constitute,  make  &  ordaine 
<fe  in  my  place  put  my  wclbeloved  &  respected  freind  John 
Browne  late  of  Boston  in  the  said  county  of  Lineolne  and  now 
of  Poynton  or  Horbling  in  the  same  county,  gent.,  my  true  & 
faithfnll  deputy,  Attorney,  and  Proctor,  for  me  and  in  my 
name  to  oversee  the  said  last  will  &  testament  &  the  perform 
ance  thereof,  and  all  and  every  lawful!  &  reasonable  thing  or 
things,  motion  or  motions,  suit  or  suits,  for  me  &  in  my  name 
concerning  the  same,  and  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  said 
last  will  &  testament,  to  make,  doe,  promo vc,  &  follow,  or 
cause  to  be  made,  done,  promovcd  or  followed,  for  the  due 
execution  of  the  said  trust  in  me  reposed,  as  effectually  to  all 
intents  &  purposes  as  if  I  myselfe  Avcre  there  present  in  Eng 
land,  Ratefying,  allowing,  &   approving  whatsoever  my  said 
deputy,  Attorney   and  Proctor    shall    lawfully  or  reasonably 
doc  or  cause  to  be  done  in  the  premises.     In  witnessc  whereof, 
I  have  hereunto  sett  my  hand   &  scale  the  thirtieth  day  of 
October  Anno  Dili,  1G38, 14  Car.     Coram  nobis.     [Mr.  Cotton 
&  Mr.  Browne  2s.  0.] 

1  John    Cotton,  Lorn  at  Derby  Doc.  Boston  in  New  England  from  1633  until 

4,    15S5;    died,    Dor.    23,    1652.      Ho  his  (loath. 

was   entered   at  Trinity  College,  Trim-  -  Sutterton  parish  is  about  six  miles 

bridge,  and  was  afterwards  a  Fellow  of  from      Boston,      where      Mr.      Cotton 

Emmanuel,      lie  preached  at  Boston  in  preached  before  coming  to   New   Eng- 

Lincoliiohire  from  1G12  to  1G03,  and  at  land.     [T.] 


LECTIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  33 

[20]  To  all  to  wliome  these  presents  shall  como  greeting, 
Knowc  ycc,  tliat  I  Thomas  Paynter  l  of  Boston  in  New  Eng 
land,  joyner,  for  twenty  eight  pounds  of  good  &  lawfull  money 
of  England  to  mo  in  hand  satisfyed  and  ])ayd  before  the  scal 
ing  &  delivery  hereof,  Doe  by  this  present  writing,  grant, 
bargaine,  &  sell  unto  George  Barrcll  of  Boston  aforesaid, 
Cowper,  my  dwelling  house  and  garden  lying  in  Boston  afore 
said  wth  Ihe  appnrtenees  thereunto  belonging,  To  have  A*  to 
hold  the  said  dwelling  house  tv  garden  and  all  the  premises 
wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever,  unto  the  said  George  l)ar- 
rell  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever.  And  1  grant  for  me  <t 
my  heires  that  we  will  warrant  unto  the  said  George  <\  his 
heires  the  tenements  aforesaid  against  me  the  said  Thomas 
and  my  heires  for  ever.  Tn  witnesse  wherof,  I  have  hereunto 
set  my  hand  A'  seale  the  thirty  one  day  of  October,  Anno  Dili 
1038,  Annocp  Regis  Carol i  decimo  quarto.  Oorani  nobis. 
[Pay ntcr  &  Barrel!.] 

Me  Georgium  Barrcll  de  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  Cowp. 
tener  etc.  Thome  Pnynter  in  sexdeeim  libris  ete.  Dat.  81.  8. 
Coram  nobis. 

The  (•ondicon.  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  above- 
bounden  George  Barrcll  his  heires  executors  administrators  or 
assignes  shall  well  £  truly  pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the 
abovcnamed  Thomas  Paynter  his  executors  or  assignes  the 
soinme  of  eight  pounds  of  lawfnll  money  of  England  upon 
the  twenty  fourth  day  of  the  fourth  moncth  next  ensuing  the 
date  hereof  if  it  be  not  the  Lords  Pay,  if  it  be,  then  the  next 

1  Thomas  Paynter  of  Boston  left  town.  He  had  a  houso  in  Boston  (down 
traces  throughout  Now  England, —  at  in  the  fio')k  of  Possessions,  O,  20),  near 
Providence,  where  he  had  a  lot  of  land,  Dock  Square,  r.eorge  Barrel!  in  the 
at  llingham  (1G37),  then  at  Charles-  7*Wj  of  Fowwin-ns  is  given  a  lot  directly 
town,  New  Haven,  Rowley,  and  Ming-  north  of  Paynter's  ;  from  which  I  infer 
liam  again  (before  ]643,  .says  Savage  ;  that  Paynter  retained  some  of  his  prop- 
but  under  this  date,  1038,  lie  calls  erty.  It  was  on  tin;  purchase  of  this 
himself  of  Boston).  In  Hingham  he  property  by  Barrcll  that  he  was  admit- 
got  into  trouble  for  his  religious  views,  ted  a  townsman,  on  condition  of  "inof- 
aml  moved  thence  to  Providence,  then  fen  si  ve  carry  age"  (Boston  Town  Records, 
to  Newport,  and  lastly,  in  1661,  to  p.  36). 
Westerly,  with  the  first  settlers  of  that 


34  LECIIFORD'S  .MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

day  after,  at  or  in  the  now  Dwelling  house  of  the  said  Thomas 
this  day  by  him  passed  to  the  said  George  then  this  obligation 
shall  be  voyd  &  of  none  effect  or  els  shall  be  &  rcmaine  in 
full  force  strength  <fc  vertue.  [Barrell  &  Payntcr.] 

Me  Thomii  Dexter  do  Sandwich  in  Nova  Anglia,  agricola, 
tcncr  <tc.  Thome  Dexter  patri  suo,  in  quadringent.  libris  <tc. 
dat.  30.  8.  coram  me  T.  L. 

The  Condicon  of  this  obligation  is,  that  whereas  the  said 
Thomas  Dexter  the  ffathcr  by  his  deed  poll  under  his  hand 
&  seale  bearing  date  the  Twenty  fourth  Day  of  this  instant 
moneth  of  October,  hath  given  and  granted  unto  the  above 
bouudcn  Thomas  Dexter  ccrtaiuc  lands  tt  tenements  in  the 
precincts  <fe  bounds  of  Sandwich  aforesaid  in  New  England 
together  wth  one  plough  or  teamc  wth  fourc  oxen  and  an  horse 
or  marc  &  the  appurtenances  and  if  the  said -Thomas  Dexter 
above  boundcn  shall  not  accept  the  said  Land  &  premises  then 
the  said  Thomas  Dexter  the  [21]  ffathcr  granted  to  pay  unto 
the  said  Thomas  Dexter  above  boundcn,  the  some  of  live  hun 
dred  pounds  upon  reasonable  demand  as  more  at  large  by  the 
said  deed  poll  it  doth  and  may  appcarc.  And  whereas  the  said 
bouuden  Thomas  Dexter  hath  agreed  to  and  wth  his  said  t'father 
Thomas  Dexter  in  Consideration  of  the  said  grant  &  grants,  to 
pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  Mary  Dexter  &  Frances  Dexter 
his  daughters,  for  and  towards  their  porcons  the  summe  of 
one  hundred  pounds  to  each  of  the  said  daughters  at'  such 
time  as  the  said  Thomas  Dexter  abovcbounden  shall  enter  into 
&  upon  the  said  lands  and  tenements  after  his  marriage,  or 
at  such  time  as  he  or  his  executors  administrators  or  assignes 
shall  demand  &  receive  the  said  five  hundred  pounds,  in  case 
the  said  Thomas  Dexter  above  boundcn  should  marry  a  wife 
and  dye  at  sea  before  his  returne  into  these  parts  of  New  Eng 
land,  or  not  be  well  advanced  in  marriage  according  to  the  good 
likeing  of  the  said  Thomas  Dexter  the  ffathcr.  If  therefore 
the  said  Thomas  Dexter  above  bounden,  his  heirs  executors 
administrators  or  assignes  shall  well  &  truly  perform  fulliill  <fc 
kcepe  the  said  agreement  or  cause  the  same  to  be  well  and 
truly  performed  fulllilled  &  kept  then  this  obligation  shall 


LECHFQRD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  35 

be  vovcl  and  of  none  effect  or  els  shall  rciuainc  <fc  be  in  full 
power  strength  &  vertue.     [Dexter  &  Dexter  2s.  Gd.] 

To  all  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come  greeting  Knowe 
yee  that  I  Kathcrine  Coytmore  late  of  Wapping  in  the 
county  of  Midd  and  now  of  Charles  Towne  in  New  England 
Widdow,  for  divers  good  considerations  me  thereunto  moving 
have  hereby  ordained  appointed  and  in  my  place  put  my 
wellbelovcd  ffrcinds  William  Bates  of  Wapping  aforesaid 
Shipwright  George  Philips  of  the  same  Mariner  and  Ellen 
his  wife  my  attorneys  baylics  and  receivers  joyntly  or  sever 
ally  to  receive  my  rents  out  of  my  lands  in  Sutton  in  Suf- 
folke  for  me  ct  in  my  name  &  to  make  &  give  acquittances 
for  the  sumo  and  to  bring  or  cause  to  be  brought  any  ac<?6ns 
thereabout  for  me  &  in  my  name  witnessc  my  hand  &  scale 
the  xxxjth  day  of  October  Anno  Dni  1088.  Coram  nobis 
Johe  Wintrop  &  me  T.  L.  [Is.  4d.]  " 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come, 
I  John  Wintrop1  Esqr,  Governor  of  the  Massachusetts  in  New 
England  send  greeting:  Knowc  yce  that  Whereas  Thomas 
Ewer2  late  of  Charles  Townc  in  the  Massachusetts  aforesaid 
Deceased,  had  divers  goods  &  debts  due  to  him  in  the  Realmc 
of  England,  I  have  hereby  given  power  and  Authority  soe 
farro  as  in  me  lycth,unto  Anthony  Dyaper  Citizen  and  Draper 
of  London  and  Andrew  Blake  of  Strowdc  in  the  County  of 
Kent,  gent.,  ioyntly  or  severally,  to  gather  up  the  said  goods 
&  debts  and  to  use  all  lawfull  ineanes  for  the  same  and  being 
soe  gathered  to  pay  out  of  the  same  unto  William  Woodcocke3 
of  Soapcr  lane,  London,  merchant,  the  somme  of  forty  pounds 

1  John  "\Vinthrop,  the  son  of  Adam  of  the  years  1634,   1640,    10  \ 5,   when 

\Vinthrop,   Lorn   at   Edwardstonc,   near  Thomas   Dudley  was  elected,   and  the 

Croton,  in  Suffolk,  Jan.  12,  lf.88,  died,  years  1035,  10:56,  1641,  and  1044,  when 

March  26,  1649.      He  was  chosen  gov-  Haynes,  Vane,  Bellingham,  and  Kndi- 

ernor  of  the  Company  of  Massachusetts  cott  respectively  licld  the  office. 
Hay,    Xov.    20,   1629,    and  set  sail  for          2  Thomas    Ewer   came   in   the   ship 

New  England,  March  29,  1630,  arriving  ". Tamos"   from  London   in  1635,   and 

at   Salem,    June  12  of  the   same  year,  died  in  1638    (Jf'ifman). 
He  was  governor  of  the  colony  from  his          3  For   more    concerning  Woodcock, 

arrival  until  1648,  with  the  exception  see  pp.  204  ct  snj.,  pout. 


36  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

and  to  one  M?  Williams  of  London,  eight  pounds,  and  all 
other  debts  owing  by  the  said  deceased  party  and  the  rest  of 
the  said  goods  and  debts  Due  to  the  deceased  to  returnc  hither 
into  the  Court  heere,  to  be  disposed  of  to  the  wife  and  chil 
dren  [22]  of  the  said  Thomas  Ewer  according  to  Lawe.  In 
witnesse  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  the  pub- 
lick  scale  of  or  Colony,  Dated  at  Boston  in  the  Massachu 
setts  aforesaid,  the  Thirty  one  Day  of  October  Anno  Dni 
1G38,  Anncp  RR.  Caroli  Angliue  <fcc.  decimo  quarto.  [Mf 
Govern?  Dyaper  &  Blake  for  Ewers  goods.  2s.  0.] 

Be  it  knowno  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  we  Ralfe 
Sprague,1  sometimes  of  Fordington  in  the  County  of  Dorset, 
ffuller,  and  now  of  Charles  Towne  in  New  England,  Planter, 
and  Joane  Sprague  wife  of  the  said  Ralfe,  one  of  the  daugh 
ters  of  Richard  Warren  late  of  Fordington  aforesaid,  yeoman, 
deceased,  Doe  by  these  presents  constitute,  ordaine  &  appoint 
our  welbeloved  ffreinds  William  Derby  of  Dorchester  in  the 
County  of  Dorset,  gentleman,  our  true  and  lawiull  Attorney 
for  us  &  in  our  names  and  to  our  use  to  demand  &  receive  all 
such  porco*ns  &  porcons,  summc  &  summes  of  money  and 
childs  parte  of  the  goods  &  chatties  reall  or  pcrsonall,  late  of 
the  snid  Richard  Warren,  that  is,  are,  or  may  be  due  or  be 
longing  unto  us  or  either  of  us,  by  any  right  whatsoever,  of 
and  from  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever  that  ought  to  pay 
or  render  the  same  unto  us  or  either  of  us :  And  further,  for 
us  &  in  our  names  to  commence  &  followe  or  cause  to  be 
commenced  &  followed  any  suit  or  suits  accon  or  accons  in 
any  Court  or  Corts  Temporall  or  Ecclesiasticall  wthin  the 
Realme  of  England  for  the  same  against  any  person  or  per 
sons  that  are  or  shall  be  lyablc  therunto  &  the  same  of  them 
to  recover  levy  and  receive  by  due  processc  of  lawe  unto  our 
use :  And  also  to  doe  &  performe  any  act  or  thing  requi 
site  therunto  or  touching  the  performance  of  his  power  & 

1  Ralph  Sprague,  of  Up\vay,  in  Dor-  own  request  dismissed  from  the  Boston 

setshire,  came  to  New  England  in  1G29,  church.    Of  these  Thomas  James  was  the 

as  is  generally  agreed.     He  was  one  of  pastor,  and  Increase  Nowell   the  most 

the  thirty-three  original  members  of  the  prominent  man.  Sprague  became  captain 

church  at  Charlestown  who  were  by  their  shortly,  and  was  often  representative. 


LKCUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  -'7 

authority  hereby  given  unto  him  for  us  &  in  our  names  as 
effectually  and  fully  to  all  intents  and  purposes  as  if  our 
selves  were  there  present  &  llatcfying,  allowing,  &  conlirm- 
inf  whatsoever  our  said  Attorney  shall  lawfully  doe  in  the 

O  •'  " 

premises.  In  witncsse  whereof  we  have  hereunto  set  our 
hands  <fc  scales,  the  eighth  day  of  November,  Anno  Dfii  1G-38, 
Anntp  RIl.  Carol!  Anglian,  CYC.  decimo  quarto,  eoram  nobis, 
Johe  Wintrop,  Governor  of  the  Massachusetts  in  N.  E.  &  inei 
T.  L.  [Spraguc  &  ux.  &  Derby  2*  GcZ.] 

To  »?;/  rrry  worthy  and  good  ffrcind  Mr.  William  Derby  at  his 
house  in  Dorchester  or  at  his  lodging  in  Terme  tyme  at  the 
Suyerloafe  in  Sheerelane,  London,  these  d  [diver], 

Worthy  Sr,  I  heare  that  my  wife's  i'father  is  Deeeased,  and 
that  he  leaft  a  fairc  estate  behindc  him.  I  knowc  not 
whether  lice  made  a  will  or  no:  my  wife  and  I  hope  that 
there  is  a  child's  par  to  due  unto  us,  because  that  she  had  noo 
porcon  as  yet  from  her  (Tat her  in  his  life  tyme.  These  are 
therefore  to  cntrcate  you  to  bo  pleased  to  dcalc  for  us  as  ef 
fectually  &  circumspectly  in  this  businesse  as  you  can  and  to 
take  all  advantages  for  us  in  the  thing,  and  that  you  would 
receive  what  is, due  to  us,  pay  yorselfe  for  all  charges  A;  labour 
in  it  out  of  what  you  receive,  &  retunio  us  the  rest,  by  my 
Sister  Alice  Eamcs  at  Po  ml  jerry  mills.  We  thank  the  Lord 
we  are  heere  [23]  well  &  in  health,  and  we  hope  you  arc  so 
also,  and  that  worthy  and  godly  man  M^  White  yor  Pastor, 
to  whome  my  wife  £  I  remember  our  service  and  vorsclfe  & 
M?  Pealc,  beseeching  the  Lord  (>od  to  keepe  you  &  defend 
you  ct  his  Churches  all  in  this  evill  tyme.  So  1  rest 

Yor  very  loving  ffreind 

HALFE  SPUAOUE. 
BOSTON  iii  N.  E.  8.  9.  1038. 

Wee  have  sent  you  here-inclosed  a  letter  of  Attorney  sealed 
before  our  worthy  Governo'  to  the  purpose  in  this  letter 
menconed.  The  writer  hereof  wbo  hath  given  bis  advise 
in  this  businesse  salutes  you  in  the  Lord.  And  1  leave  all 
to  vor  wiscdomc  and  discreation. 


38  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


To  my  Loving  Sister  Alice    Eames  at  Pomberry  milles  neare 
Dorchester,  these  d. 

Loving  Sister,  my  love  to  you  &  or  frcinds  wth  you  remcm- 
bred,  whereas  I  sent  you  a  letter  formerly  to  treate  wth  my 
wife's  ffathers  executors  about  our  porcon,  I  doe  hereby 
rcvoakc  those  letters  &  yor  power  by  them  committed  to  you, 
&  desire  you  would  goe  to  Mr  Derby  whome  we  have  made 
our  Attorney,  &  knowe  of  him  what  is  or  can  be  done  in  the 
matter,  &  if  he  shall  recover  any  thing  then  you  are  to  re 
ceive  it  &  send  it  to  me  <fc  dispose  of  it  according  to  my  for 
mer  direccons,  but  howsoever  I  pray  let  us  heare  what  is  or 
shall  be  done  in  the  businesse.  Soe  the  Lord  keepe  you  & 
yo™ 

Yor  loving  Brother 

RALFE  SPRAGUE. 
BOSTON  in  N.  E.  8.  9.  1638. 

Mr.  Throgmorton  a  draught  of  an  Assignment,  23.  9.  1638. 


To  all  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come  greeting,  Knowe 
yee  that  I  John  Graves  l  of  Roxbury  in  New  England,  Cow- 
leech,  gardian  of  Sarah  Graves  my  Daughter  under  age,  Doe 
hereby  constitute  and  make  my  wellbeloved  freinds  Robert 
Wood  of  Harlowe  in  the  County  of  Essex,  shoemaker,  and 
Nicholas  Campo  of  Nasing  in  the  said  County,  husbandman, 
my  true  and  lawfull  Attorneys  joyntly  and  severally  for  me 
&  in  myne  name  and  my  said  daughters  name  to  demand  and 
receive  and  by  suit  of  law  if  need  be  to  recover  of  Lydia  Ford 
late  of  Nasing  aforesaid,  widdow,  my  Sister,  the  summe  of 
scaven  pounds  and  tenne  shillings,  for  six  yeares  rent  of  a 
certainc  peicc  of  meadow  in  Nasing  aforesd,  to  be  ended 
the  Twenty  list  day  of  March  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof, 
being  parte  of  my  said  daughter's  legacy,  according  to  the 

1  John  (Intvos  AV;IS  a  friend  of  John  from  the  town  of  Nosing,  in  Essex,  and 
Eliot  the  Apostli-,  coming,  as  did  Eliot,  living  in  Roxbury.  IIo  died  in  1044. 


LKCIIFOUD'S   MAXrxriUPT  NOTE-BOOK.  80 

last  will  cv  Testament  of  Thomas  Finch '  lute  of  Hertford 
in  the  county  of  Hertford,  yeoman,  deceased.  And  acquittance 
or  acquittances  therefore  in  my  name  and  my  said  Daughters 
name  to  make  upon  such  receipt,  and  the  same  money  re 
ceived  to  returne  unto  my  wclhelovcd  freind  Nicholas  Parker2 
of  Boston  in  New  England,  Planter,  whome  1  have  appointed 
to  receive  the  same,  llatefying  [24]  and  allowing  all  and 
whatsoever  my  said  Attorneys  or  either  of  them  shall  law 
fully  Doc  in  the  premises.  In  witnesse  whereof  I  have  here 
unto  set  my  hand  it  scale,  the  twenty  third  day  of  Novemb1" 
Anno  Put  1G-38,  Annoup  HR.  (la roll  Anglitc  tte.  decimo  quarto. 
Corain  nohis,  Tho  :  Savage  et  mei  T.  L.  scr  hujus.  [1.  0] 

To  all  to  whome  these  presents'  shall  come,  I  John  Win- 
trop  Esqr  (Governor  of  the  Massachusetts  in  New  England' 
send  greeting  in  our  Lord  (Jod  everlasting,  Knowe  yce  that 
Elizabeth  Woolcott  and  Mary  Woolcott,  Daughters  of  John 
Woolcott3  heretofore  of  Glaston  in  the  County  of  Somerset, 


1  This    provision    for     one     of    the 
daughters    of    John    Graves    may    ac 
count  lor  the  omission  of  her  name  in 
his  will,  made.  Nov.    1,  1014,  by  which 
his  estate  was  lefb  to  his  wife,   mother, 
and  children,    except    Sarah.       Perhaps 
she.  was    the    only   surviving   child  by 
a   .second    wife    (daughter    of    Thomas 
Finch),   who  died  shortly  after  his  ar 
rival    in    Xew  England    in  May,   1033, 
or  of  Judith  Alward,  or  Allan),  whom 
he    married    in    December,     1G35,    his 
third  wife   (compare  Savage;    see  Jlox- 
b u  ry  La n  d  lice  >rds,  p.  81).     [T.  ] 

2  Nicholas    Parker,   of  whom    much 
will,   be   seen   from  time  to  time  in  the 
Note-look,     had     been    a    merchant    of 
lloxbury,     where     he     lived     at     first, 
but     soon     removed     to    Boston.       lie 
was  probably  brother  of  Richard  Park 
er,  who  also  appears  frequently  in  the 
Note-look ;   but  I    believe   there    is    no 
direct  evidence  to  show  that   this   was 
the  case. 


8  "John  Wolcott,  Cambridge  or 
Watertown,  freeman,  4th  March,  1G35  ; 
representative,  May  following  ;  died  in 
July,  1033.  His  inventory,  taken  17th 
of  that  month  by  three  of  the  chinch 
members, — Ilev.  George  Philips  being 
one, — and  the  prefix  of  respect,  show 
that  lie  was  a  man  of  esteem"  (Suv- 
«<j<').  His  first  wife  died  probably 
before  his  coming  to  New  England. 
He  left  a  widow,  Winifred,  who  after 
wards  married  Thomas  Allen,  of  1  Jam- 
stable  (Bond's  IVatcrtown,  p.  G(>S. 
On  p.  97o  Bond  refers  to  a  notice  of 
John  Wolcott  in  History  of  JJronkfidd, 
pp.  37,  38).  Tho  memorandum  to 
"write  to  Henry  Wolcott,  of  Wind 
sor,"  to  inform  him  of  the  choice  of 
guardians  by  Hie  daughters,  indicates 
the  relationship  of  John  Wolcott  to  the 
Windsor  family.  The  elder  daughter 
bore  the  .same  name  with  the  wife  of 
Henry  Wolcott,  Elizabeth  [Saundersl. 
May  not  John  have  been  the  eldest 


40  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

yeoman,  and  laic;  of  Watertowne  in  New  England,  planter, 
deceased,  and  of  Mary  sometimes  his  wife  also  deceased,  are 
at  the  tyme  of  the  making  hereof  in  full  life  and  good  health, 
and  further  they  have  before  me  chosen  and  intreated  their 
Uncles  Richard  Yaylo  of  Glaston  aforesd,  yeoman,  and  Chris 
topher  Atkins  of  the  same,  mercer,  to  be  their  guardians 
joyntly  and  severally  for  them  and  in  their  names  to  take  up, 
occupy  and  enjoy  all  those  their  Goppihold  Lands  and  Tene 
ments  lying  in  or  neare  Glaston  aforesaid,  in  whatsoever 
maimor  or  mannors  in  the  said  County  until  they  shall  re 
spectively  be  of  full  age  or  married,  and  then  to  render  them 
an  account  of  the  issues  and  profits  of  the  same  Lands  A: 
Tenements,  and  also  the  possession  thereof  according  to  their 
right.  And  that  in  the  meancwhile  they  their  said  uncles 
would  for  them  and  in  their  names  do  or  cause  to  be  done 
all  such  suit  &  service  to  the  Court  or  Courts  of  the  Lord 
or  Lords  of  the  premises,  and  all  other  things,  as  shall  be 
requisite  according  to  the  Law  and  cnstome  or  customes  of 
the  Maimor  or  Mannors  where  the  said  lands  &  tenements 
doe  lye,  for  the  better  obteyning,  holding  and  enjoying  the 
premises  accordingly.  In  witnesse  whereof  I  have  hereunto 
set  my  hand  and  the  publiquc  scale  of  our  Colony.  Dated 
at  Boston  in  the  Massachusetts  aforesaid,  the  2u'th  Day  of 
November,  Anno  Dili,  lu'oS,  Annocp  R  R  Caroli  Angliie 
etc.  14.  [Is.  (M.  Wooleott.] 

[  The  folloiviny  noted  in  the  mar<jin.~\     Write  to  Henry  Wool- 
cott  of  Windsor  in  N.  E.  at  M.  George  Scarle  mercer  in  Tanton 

son   of  Henry  and    Elizabeth,    born    in  ily  record  makes  no  mention  of  him." 

1607,  who  did  not  accompany  his    pa-  The.sc    daughters   of  John    Wolcott,   of 

rents  to  New  England,  hut  was  living  Wutertown,  probably  returned  to  Kng- 

in  Wellington,  Somersetshire,  in  1(531  ?  land  to  the  care  of  their  guardians,  — 

In   a   notice  of   "Henry  Wolcott   and  which,  on  the  supposition  of  the  iden- 

his    Children "    in   the    Congregational  tity    of   the    father    with    the    son    of 

Qa<(ii(  •/•///  for  April,  1859  (vol.  i.  p.  149).  Henry,    would   account   for   the   disap- 

the   writer,  l!ev.  Samuel   Wolcott,   says  pearanre  of  their  names  from  the  fam- 

tliat  the  eldest  son,  John,  "apparently  ily   record.       (This   is    not    noticed    in 

never  emigrated  to  America.     He  had  the  recently  published    Wolcott  Family 

died  without  issue  previous  to  the  date  Memoirs,  1881.)      [T.] 
of  his  father's  will,  in  1G55.     The  fain- 


LEClll-ORirS    MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  41 

&  Edward  Woolcott  of  Axbridgc  in  Sonlsct  mercer  tliesc  to 
1)0  miidc  gardians. 

[25]  Be  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  we 
Elizabeth  Woolcott  and  Mary  Woolcott  daughters  of  John 
W^oolcott  heretofore  of  (Jlaston  in  the  County  of  Somerset 
yeoman  and  late  of  Watertowne  in  New  England  planter 
deceased  and  of  Mary  sometimes  his  wife  also  Deceased 
being  at  this  time  respectively  &  severally  under  the  age  of 
twenty  and  one  ycarcs  and  here  rcmayning  beyond  the  seas 
in  the  parts  of  New  England  doe  hereby  choose  and  intreate 
our  welbeloved  Uncles  Richard  Yaylc  of  Glaston  aforesaid 
yeoman  and  Christofer  Atkins  of  the  same  mercer  to  be  our 
gardians  joyntly  and  severally  for  us  and  in  our  names  to 
take  up  occupy  and  enjoy  all  those  our  Coppihold  Lauds  and 
Tenements  lying  in  or  nearc  Glaston  aforesaid  in  whatsoever 
Mannor  or  Manners  in  the  said  County  untill  wee  shall  re 
spectively  bo  of  full  ago  or  married  and  then  to  render  us  an 
account  of  the  issues  and  profitts  of  the  same  Lands  &  Tene 
ments  and  also  the  possession  thereof  according  to  our 
right  and  that  in  the  mcanc  while  they  our  said  Uncles 
would  for  us  and  in  our  names  doe  or  cause  to  bo  done  all 
such  suit  and,  .service  to  the  Court  or  Courts  of  the  Lord  or 
Lords  of  the  premises  and  all  other  things  as  shall  be  requi 
site  according  to  the  Law  and  customc  or  customes  of  the 
Mannor  or  Mannors  where  the  said  Lands  and  Tenements 
doe  lye  for  the  better  obteyning  holding  and  enjoying  the 
premises  accordingly.  In  witucsse  whereof  we  have  hereunto 
set  our  hands  <fc  scales  the  Twenty  sixth  day  of  November 
Anno  Dili  1638.  Annocp  R  Ra  Caroli  Anglic  £c.  decimo 
quarto.  Coram  nobis  Joh°  Wiuthrop  Gubr  et  T.  L.  [2s.  6ci] 

A  Bond  drawen  for  Mr5s  Woolcott  to  M*    [>W,-.]      [Is.] 

A  writing  for  John  Poolc  l  concerning  the  [death,  erased^] 
correction  &  examination  of  John  England,  4.  10.  1688. 


1   "John  Poolo,  for  abusing  his  scr-     Boston,     Dec.     4,     1638    (Mass.     Coll. 
vant,    was    fined  £5  "  by  the  court    at     lice.  i.  247).     Mr.  Poolc  had  before  this 


42  LECHFORD^S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[26]  To  all  xxian  [Christian]  people  to  whome  these 
presents  shall  come  Wee  James  Cade  l  late  of  Northam  in  the 
County  of  Devon  and  now  of  Boston  in  New  England  ship 
wright  and  Margaret  his  wife  send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God 
everlasting  Knowc  yee  that  we  the  said  James  and  Margaret 
for  and  in  divers  considerations  us  thereunto  moving  Doe  by 
these  presents  grant  a  lien  and  cnfeorle  unto  George  Stranire 
gent  All  that  one  dwelling  house  lately  erected  and  four- 
tcenc  acres  of  land  lying  in  severall  places  in  the  parish  of 
Northam  aforesaid  now  or  late  in  the  tenure  or  occupation 
of  Mary  Busvyne  widdow  or  her  assignes  and  all  rents  ser 
vices  and  revercons  therof  and  all  deeds  and  evidences  only 
concerning  the  same  in  whose  custody  soever  they  be  To 
have  and  to  hold  the  said  Dwelling  house  &  land  wth  all 
and  singulare  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  G.  S.  his 
hcircs  and  assignes  for  ever  To  the  only  use  and  proper 
behoofe  of  the  said  G.  S.  his  hcires  and  assignes  for  ever 
And  Whereas  I  the  said  James  Cade  have  interest  and 
right  unto  one  rent  charge  or  annuity  of  five  pounds  per 
annu  going  or  coining  out  of  three  mesuagcs  and  tene 
ments  and  fowcr  acres  of  land  lying  in  Northam  aforesaid 
lately  purchased  by  William  Lee  of  the  same  Esqr  of  Chris- 
tofer  Cade  ffather  of  me  the  said  James  or  by  the  said 
William  Lee  his  heires  or  a555  to  be  payd  unto  me  the  said 
James  or  my  assignes  after  the  death  of  Mary  Hopper  my 


removed    from    Boston  to  Lynn.      This  in    England.      It    offers   an    important 

John  England,  his  servant,  is  probably  contribution   to  the  Cade  (Cady)  gene- 

the   same   who  was   at   New  Haven  in  alogy.     James  Cade,  of  Hinghum,  1685, 

1645  and  1G47,  and  afterwards  of  Bran-  "came,   it  is  .said,  from   Wales,   or  the 

ford,    where    he    died    in    1655    (New  "West   of  England,  which,"  as  Mr.  Sav- 

ILn-cii  Cut.  liccords,  i.  1(53,  294;  ii.  186).  ngu    thought,    "is    very    loose."      This 

[T.]  draught  shows   him  to  have  come  from. 

1  This     conveyance      was     probably  Xortharn,    County    Devon,     where     his 

made,  or  designed  to  be  made  (for  the  father,     Christopher     Cade,     had     held 

omission    of   the    names    of    witnesses,  laud,    which   he   sold,    charged  with  an 

ami  of  the   usual  articles  of  agreement  annuity  to  his  wife  Margaret,    and  died 

creating  the   trust,  make  it  doubtful  if  before    the    date    of    this    instrument, 

it  was  ever  executed),  in  trust,   to  en-  leaving    sons,    James    and    John,     and 

able  Mr.  Strange  to  sell  and  give  eon-  probably  a  daughter,    Thomasine,    wife 

veyance  of  the  premises  to  a  purchaser  of  John  Roe.     [T.] 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  43 

mothr  for  and  during  the  lives  of  mo  tho  said  James  John 
Cade  my  brother  and  Thomasin  Roe  wife  of  John  line  of 
Abbotsliani  in  the  said  County  Mariner  and  the  longest  liver 
of  us,  I  The  said  James  doc  hereby  grant  alien  assigne  and 
convey  unto  the  said  [Wtm/,-]  the  said  rent  charge  and  all 
the  right  title  and  interest  of  me  the  said  James  of  in  and  to 
the  same  and  every  parcell  thereof  To  have  and  to  hold  the 
said  rent  charge  or  annuity  wth  all  and  singularc  [27]  the 
last  mentioned  premises  wth  the  appurtcnccs  whatsoever 
unto  the  said  G.  S.  and  his  assigncs  during  the  tearmc 
aforesaid  And  Whereas  also  wee  the  said  James  and  Mar 
garet  hold  for  the  life  of  the  said  Margaret  one  mcsuagc  or 
tenement  wth  the  appurtenances  lying  in  Uiddei'ord  in  the 
said  County  wee  doc  hereby  grant  and  assigne  unto  the  said 
[&/«M&]  all  our  and  each  of  our  right  title  interest  <fc  pos 
session  of  and  in  the  said  last  mentioned  mesuage  or  Tene 
ment  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  last  mentioned  premises 
wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said  G.  S.  &  his 
assigncs  for  and  during  the  tearmc  aforesaid.  And  Wee 
the  said  James  and  Margaret  doe  for  ourselves  our  hcircs 
executors  administrators  and  assigncs  promise  <fc  grant  to 
the  said  G.  S.  his  hcircs  and  assigncs  by  these  presents  that 
wcc  the  saiil  James  and  Margaret  our  heircs  executors  ad 
ministrators  and  assigncs  shall  and  will  from  time  to  tymc 
and  at  all  tymcs  hereafter  within  twenty  yeares  next  ensu 
ing  the  date  hereof  at  the  reasonable  request  and  at  the 
costs  &  charges  in  the  law  of  the  said  G.  S.  his  heircs  and 
assigncs  make  doc  execute  levy  acknowledge  and  suffer  or 
cause  to  be  made  done  executed  levycd  acknowledged  and 
suffered  all  and  every  such  further  and  other  reasonable  act 
and  acts  thing  and  things  assurances  and  conveyances  in 
the  Law  whatsoever  for  the  more  sure  conveying  and  sure 
making  of  all  and  singulare  the  scverall  premises  and  every 
partc  and  parcell  thereof  unto  the  said  G.  S.  his  hcires 
and  assignes  according  to  the  true  meaning  of  these  pres 
ents  be  it  by  fline  or  flincs  rccovcrie  or  recoveries  ffeoff- 
mcnts  grants  bonds  or  other  assurances  whatsoever  as  by 
the  said  G.  S.  his  hcircs  or  assignes  shall  be  reasonably 


44  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

advised  devised  or  required  soc  that  for  the  doing  suffering 
or  acknowledging  thereof  the  said  James  and  Margaret 
their  hcires  executors  administrators  or  assignes  shall  not 
he  compelled  to  travell  out  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the  Massa 
chusetts  in  New  England  And  we  the  said  James  and  Mar 
garet  [28]  doe  hy  these  presents  nominate  constitute  & 
appoint  our  wclhelovcd  frcinds  Walter  Lawrence  of  Abbots- 
haiu  in  the  said  County  yeoman  and  Philip  Gibh  of  Northam 
aforesaid  our  true  &  sufficient  Attorneys  ioyntly  and  sever 
ally  for  us  and  in  our  names  to  enter  into  and  upon  the  sev- 
crall  premises  hereby  granted  or  any  of  them  &  possession 
thcrof  to  take  and  afterwards  full  quiet  &  peaceable  pos 
session  livery  and  seisin  thcrof  to  deliver  over  unto  the  said 
CT.  S.  according  to  the  purporte  and  true  meaning  of  these 
presents  Ratcfying  and  allowing  whatsoever  our  said  Attor 
neys  or  either  of  them  shall  lawfully  doc  in  the  premises  In 
witnessc  whereof  Wee  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  &  scales 
the  fourth  day  of  Deccmbr  Anno  Dili  1638  And  in  the  foure- 
tecnth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles 
by  the  grace  of  Cod  King  of  England  &°.  Coram. 

To  my  loving  Freind,  Mr.  Edmond  Browne,1  at  Plymouth, 

these  d. 

MR.  BROWNE.  I  was  somewhat  grcivcd  [when  I  was  told 
of ;  crossed  out]  at  a  bitter  scoffe  you  put  upon  me  when  you 
were  in  the  Bay  last,  about  the  Howe.  I  confessc  1  did  not  at 
the  present  well  heare  what  you  said,  or  not  apprehend  your 
meaning,  but  afterwards  I  understood  it.  I  have  not  seen  you 
since.  1  use  not  to  flatter  or  mock  at  those  I  respect,  or  others, 
and  I  cannot  but  tell  you  it  was  a  signe  of  little  charitic  <fe 
respect  in  you  towards  me,  wth  a  biting  jest  to  add  to  the  at'flic- 

1  This   must  be   the    Ilcv.    Edmund  show   that   they   arrived  in  New  Eng- 

IJrown,  first  minister  of  Sudlmry,  where  laud  hy  the  samo  vessel,  June  27,  1G38, 

he  was  ordained  in  August,  1610.     Mr.  which    Lechford  notes  as  "the   day  of 

Savage     says    that    he     "came     over,  his   landing."      In   his    first    draught, 

1GU7  ; "   but    Lechford' s   reference  to  a  Lechford  addressed  him,  with  the  famil- 

discussion     "on     shipboard"     (though  iarity  of  old  friendship,  as  Ned  Browne, 

subsequently     crossed    out)    smiis    to  but  subsequently  crossed  this  out.     [T.] 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  45 

tion  of  the  afflicted  wlioine  ratlicr  you  should  have  comforted  : 
so  much  for  that.  1  tookc  you  for  my  ffreind  and  therefore  did 
freely  open  my  mind  to  you  from  lime  to  time,  ever  since  we 
came  acquainted.  I.  shewed  you  therefore  my  writings  on  the 
Apocalyps  and  other  scriptures,  whereon  you  tookc  notes  and 
promised  you  would  write  me  somewhat  in  answerc,  to  rectify 
me  if  .1  were  mistaken  in  any  thing,  wch  yet  you  have  not 
done.  It  may  be  you  have  not  had  leasure  [hut  I  shall  ex 
pect  it,  because  by  yor  contrary  opinion  some  have  been  car 
ry  oil,  I  conceive,  not  only  against  me,  but  against  the  truth, 
wth  some  prchtdice ;  crossed  out~\.  I  hope  you  will  not  deny 
me  that  freimlly  office  of  love,  but  give  me  yor  opinion  as 
soone  as  you  can.  Also,  you  knowe  you  and  I  differing  about 
the  point  of  prophesying  in  the  Churches,  we  agreed  [on  ship 
board  ;  cmsscd  out]  to  set  downc  our  opinions  therein  under 
our  hands.  I  for  my  part  did  so,  and  delivered  the  sam<-  to 
Mr.  Downing,1  whome  1  intrcatcd  to  [29]  communicate  the 
same  to  you,  and  so  1  belcivc  he  did;  however  [for  feare  of 
failure  ;  crossed  out']  out  of  respect  to  you  <fc  in  performance 
of  inv  word,  1  have  sent  you  here  a  coppy  of  the  propositions. 
Now  I  desire  that  yon  would  also  pcrformc  yo1'  word  and  send 
me  your  opinion  in  this  thing,  when  you  can  finde  loasuro  and 
opportunity,  that  I  may  be  advised  and  rectifycd  by  you  if  L 
mistake,  or  els  that  if  you  agree  to  me  I  may  be  confirmed  in 
the  truth.  I  pray  let  us  not  be  strangers  one  to  another. 
You  may  perceive  I  doe  not  forget  you ;  though  you  never 
came  to  visit  me,  I  visit,  you  by  letter:  but  when  you  come 
hither,  if  you  please  1  shall  be  glad  to  see  you,  that  we  may 
come  to  a  better  understanding  of  each  other.  I  pray  prscnt 
my  service  to  Mr.  Winslowe  and  to  Mr.  Chancey <J  and  his 

1  Em  ami  el    Downing,    the    brother-  ford  I  am  inclined  to  Ix-Hove  that  they 

in -law    of    Governor     \Vinthrop.      Mr.  were    fellow-passengers    from    Kngland. 

Savage  supposed  that   he  arrived  with  [T.] 

Captain  Peiree  early  in  October,  1638.  2  Rev.  Charles  fhauncy,  afterwards 
lie  and  his  wife  were  admitted  mem-  president  of  the  college  at  Cambridge, 
bers  of  the  Salem  Church,  November  4  Avas  at  this  time  preaching  at  Ply- 
following  (  JFintJi.,  i.  330,  note).  But  mouth  as  the  colleague  or  assistant  of 
M'uss.  licrord^,  i.  230,  show  that  he  was  R,ev.  John  Ileyner  (see  irinfh.,  i.  330). 
here  at  least  as  early  as  September  4  ;  [T.] 
and  from  this  reference  to  him  by  Lech- 


46 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


wife.  Soc  I  pray  God  to  blesse  you  in  all  yor  good  proceed 
ings,  and  notwtbstanding  [all  former  offences  and  jeeres ; 
crossed  out~\  anything  herein  seeming  to  the  contrary,  I 

remainc  v  _  ,,,    . 

I  or  lire  in  u  to  doe  you  any 

offices  of  love  very  ready, 

T.  L. 

BOSTON,  10.  10.  1G;J8. 

1Virtute  Ilaru  Patent'  Sercnissimi  Dili  nFi  Caroli  Regis 
Anglise  etc.  Ego  Joh09  Winthrop  Ar'  Gubiiator  Coloniai  De 
Massachusctt  in  Nova  Anglia,  Licentiam  Dedi,  et  per  prscntes 
potcstatcm  concede  Stephano  Winthrop2  mcrcatori  et  Will0 
Goose  Rectori  sivc  Nauclero  navicula)  vocata3  le  Sparrowe  De 
Boston  oncris  quinquaginta  dolioru  vcl  circiter  cum  septcm 
personis  cisdein  adjunctis  ad  Insulas  vocat'  SiuTiers  Hands 


[  "  By  virtue  of  these  Patents  of  our 
Most  Serene  Lord  Charles,  King  of  Eng 
land,  etc.,  I,  John  Winthrop,  Esquire, 
Governor  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts 
in  New  England,  have  given  License, 
and  by  these  presents  I  allow  power,  to 
Stephen  Winthrop,  merchant,  and  Wil 
liam  Goose,  commander  or  master  of  the 
vessel  called  the  'Sparrowe,'  of  Boston, 
of  fifty  tons'  burden,  or  thereabouts,  with 
seven  persons  joined  to  them,  to  sail  to 
those  Islands  called  the  Summers  Islands, 
otherwise  Bermudas,  and  there  to  do  busi 
ness  with  the  inhabitants  of  that  region. 
And  if  it  shall  come  to  pass  that  on  ac 
count  of  adverse  winds  you  shall  not  be 
able  to  reach  the  said  islands,  then  it 
shall  be  allowable  for  you  to  travel  to 
other  islands  inhabited  by  subjects  or 
allies  of  our  King,  to  the  peaceful  accom 
plishment  of  your  business.  And  I 
therefore  ask  from  all  Governors  and 
other  Kulcrs  having  any  jurisdiction  or 
authority  whatsoever  in  places  of  the 
kind  aforesaid,  that  the  said  vessel  may 
be  received  with  men  and  goods  into 
your  ports,  and  may  be  permitted,  hav 
ing  finished  their  business,  to  go  thence 


quietly  ;  and  so  may  your  men  expect 
and  find  the  same  kindness  from  us  if 
occasion  should  offer.  Provided  always 
that  by  virtue  of  this  Commission  it 
shall  not  be  allowed  the  said  Stephen 
and  William  or  their  men  to  inflict  any 
hurt  or  injury  upon  any  one,  or  to  do 
business  with  any  men  in  islands  or 
places  prohibited  to  the  commerce  of  our 
King  of  England,  except  by  urgent  neces 
sity,  on  account  of  provisions  or  safety. 
In  testimony  of  this  thing  I  have  caused 
the  public  seal  of  the  said  Colony  to  be 
allixed  to  these  presents,  to  remain  good 
for  six  months,  and  no  longer.  Given 
on  the  twentieth  day  of  December,  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  1638." 

2  Stephen  Winthrop,  fourth  son  of 
John  Winthrop,  but  first  by  his  third 
wife,  Margaret,  born  1G19,  and  died  in 
England,  1G52,  or  thereabouts.  He  held 
certain  offices  in  New  England,  but  in 
1(545  or  1616  went  back  to  take  part  in 
the  Civil  War,  where  he  acquired  dis 
tinction,  both  civil  and  military.  Of 
his  partner,  William  Goose,  nothing  to 
speak  of  is  known. 


LECIIFOUD'S   MAXUSCRirr  NOTE-BOOK.  47 

alias  Bermuda  navigaro  ei  il>i  ronimcrf  ia  Inhere  cinn  incolis 
illius  loci.  Et  si  contingat  quod  oh  ventos  adversos  insuias 
pra?dictas  attingcrc  non  possitis,  tune  licobit  vobis  ad  aliquas 
alias  insulas  a  Regis  im  subditis  vel  confoedcratis  inhabitatas 
applicarc  ad  nogotia  vcstra  pacificc  peragcnda.  Pcto  itaqtic 
ab  omnibus  Gubernatorib"  ct  aliis  Jurisdiccbncm  vel  Authori- 
tatcm  quacunquc  in  huiusmodi  locis  habentib*1  lit  navicula 
praxlca  cum  lio'ibus  ct  bonis  suis  in  portus  vras  recipiatur  et 
ncgotiis  pcractis  illinc  quictc  solvcrc  pcrmittatur,  ct  sic  can- 
deni  a  nobis  gratiani  (occasione  oblata)  hoYes  vestri  semper 
cxpectarc  possint  ct  invcnicnt.  Proviso  semper  quod  favoro 
buius  Commissionis  non  liccbit  pra>fat'  Hteplfo  ct  (»ulielmo 
vel  lu/ibns  suis  dainnii  vel  gravamen  aliquod  alicui  inferre, 
nee  ComnuTcia  habcrc  cum  ullis  bo'ibus  in  insulis  sivc  locis 
T*  liege  nrii  Angliae  morcaturii  probibitis  nisi  urgcntc  neces 
sitate  ob  victa  vel  salutcm.  In  cuius  rci  tcstimoniu  sigillu 
publicfl  Colonioj  pracdictus  prosscnti  scripto  apponi  fcci  f  sex 
menses  ct  non  ultra  in  virttito  mancro.  Dat'  viccsimo  Die 
Dccembris  Anno  Dm  1G38. 

[Letter  from   Thomas  Lccliford  to  Ilugli  Peters1 ;] 

WORTHY  MB.  PETERS.  My  service  remembered  to  you,  tbese 
are  to  let  you  (as  a  friend  in  tbe  Lord,  upon  whom  my  heart 
much  did  and  doth  depend  for  counsel  and  ayde,)  vndcrstand 
some  of  my  affaires  ;  wherein  I  presume  upon  [w^i/,-]2  and 
your  wisdom  and  gracious  disposition  which  I  have  ever 
observed  in  you  since  I  was  your  auditor  and  hung  upon  your 
Ministry  at  the  Graves  or  Sepulchres.3  You  may  easily  con 
ceive  how  it  is  with  me,  touching  my  estate  or  livelihood, 
being  thrown  out  of  my  station  in  England,  and  [desirous  to 

1   Hugh    Fetors,   liorn   1599,   came    to  from  the  short-hand  copy  in  the  Note- 

New  Kngland  in  the.  "  Abigail,"  as  it  is  look  (see  Introduction  to  Plainc  Dc.al- 

thought,  in  1635,  was  settled  the  fourth  iny,  pp.  xiv  and  xvii). 

minister  of  Salem,  Dec.  21,  1636.     He  2  Some   word   or    words    were    here 

went  back    to    England,    in    the    same  omitted   by   the   writer   when    making 

ship  with  Lech  ford,    in   1641,   and  en-  his  short-hand  copy.     [T.] 

g-iged  vigorously  in  the  Civil  War.     lie  3  St.  Sepulchre's,  in  London,  where 

was  executed  at  the  return  of  Charles  II.,  Hugh  Peters  was  for  some  time  a  much- 

Oct.  1C,  1660.     This  letter  is  deciphered  approved  preacher. 


48  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

make  a  virtue  of  necessity?],  in  joyning  to  the  people  and 
Churches  of  God  here,  1  forsook  preferment  in  a  Prince's 
court,  that  was  offered  to  me,  who  of  Christian  Princes  is  the 
chief  for  godlynesse  (as  I  was  assured)  Gcorgius  Ragotzki,1 
Prince  of  Transylvania  and  Lord  of  Lower  Hungary,  successor 
to  Bethlem  Gabor ;  likewise  the  Lords  of  Providence  2  offered 
me  place  of  preferment  with  them,  which  I  will  not  name: 
Hither  I  have  come,  and  the  Lord  knows  my  heart,  faine 
would  I  joync  with  your  Churches,  hut  first  I  desired  to  open 
my  mind  in  some  matcriall  things  of  weight  concerning  our 
profession,  even  the  Christian  faith  ;  which  I  did.  so  God  is  my 
witncsse,not  lightly  or  hastily  take  up,  but  upon  good  grounds 
and  mature  (as  I  hope)  deliberation,  long  before  I  resolved  to 
betake  myself  into  these  parts  of  the  world :  therefore  farrc 
was  it  from  mo,  and  shall  ever  be,  to  raise  purposely  any 
stirro  here;  for  I  love  quictncsso  and  ease  too* well,  and  am 
quickly  discouraged.  My  strength  is  but  small  and  my  judge 
ment  young  and  slender  in  great  affaires  of  State.  I  showed 
you  my  books:  you  had  not  leisure  to  peruse  them.  I  like 
wise,  long  before,  showed  my  inainc  book  to  Air.  Cotton.  He 
had  not  leisure  to  read  it;  and  the  first  draught  of  that  Of 
Prophesie,  it  lay  in  his  house  at  least  five  wcckes :  After  the 
Court  here  ended,  I  delivered  that  Of  Prophesie  to  Air. 
Deputy  [Thomas  Dudley]  3  to  advise  thereof  as  a  private 

1  Gcorgollakoczy  (orRagotzki),  born  the  defeat  of  the  Turks  ut  tho  buttle 

1591,    was   elected    Prince  of   Transyl-  of   Sclmlonta    in    1636,    prosecuted    the 

vania   (Siebenbiirgen)    in    1G31,    about  war    against    Ferdinand    II.     and    the 

t\vo   years   after   the   death  of  Bethlen  Roman  Catholic  party,  until  the  rights 

Gabor,    whose   daughter    he    had    inar-  of    the    Protestants    were    for    a    time 

rie  1.     lie  was  a  zealous  champion  of  the  secured  by  the  treaty  of  peace  of  Lintz 

Protestants  of  Hungary  and  Bohemia,  in  16-15.     He  died  Oct.  14,  1648  (Zed- 

who    had    suffered    bitter     persecution  ler's  Lexicon,   art.  "  Kagoezy,  George  ; " 

under  the  reign  of  Ferdinand  II.  and  Moreri ;  Encyc.  Lrit.,  art.  "  Hungary  "). 

his    successor    (1637),    Ferdinand    III.  [T.J 

The    Bohemians   had   elected    as    their  2  See  Trumbull's  note,  Plainr.   Dctcl- 

prince  Frederick  of  the    Pl'alx,  son-in-  in</,  p.  17. 

law     of    James    I.    of    Kngland,    with  3  See  Dudley's  harsh  judgment  of 

whom     Botlileu     and     his    successor,  book  and  man,  in  letter  to  Winthrop, 

George    Kakoe/cy,    maintained    a     firm  2  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Proc.,  pp.  311-312, 

alliance.       The    latter,    having    estab-  and  also  in  another  letter,  4  Mass.  Hist. 

lished   himself  in   his   principality    by  Soc.  Coll.,  vii.  111. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  49 

friend,  as  a  godly  man  and  a  member  of  tho  Church,  whether 
it  were  fit  to  be  published.  The  next  news  1  had  was,  that  at 
first  dash  he  accused  me  of  heresy  and  wrote  to  M?  Governor 
[Winthrop]  that  my  book  was  litter  to  be  burned.  Wot  you 
what  that  heresy  was  ?  Why  a  thing  1  never  intended,  neither 
did  you  see  when  you  read  it ;  that  I  said  the  Apostles  of 
churches  had  not  power  of  to  command,  and  I  thought 
the  Apostles  of  Christ  claimed  no  other  power  than  according 
to  the  word  and  will  of  Christ ;  therefore,  (say  he  and  some 
other,)  I  implied  the  Apostles  of  Christ  might  erre :  and 
indeed  my  words  might  have  been  so  strained.  But  the  truth 
is,  Apostles  ought  to  rcmainc  in  the  Churches,  likewise  Evan 
gelists  and  Prophets,  as  well  as  Pastors  or  Teachers,  else  we 
must  be  beholden  to  the  sins  of  men  for  the  propagation  of 
the  Cospell :  we  must  stay  at  home  till  they  persecute  us 
abroad,  and  then  we  may  preach  the  Gospell.  Not  that  I  hold 
myself  (the  Lord  knows  my  heart  and  my  insufficiency!)  fit 
for  any  of  these  great  workes.  Likewise,  Prophcsie  is  as  I 
have  said,  as  I  verily  believe;  and  also  Tongues  ought  to  be 
learned  and  spoken,  as  1  have  proposed.  1  speake  according 
to  my  light,  and  dare  do  no  otherwise.  If  hotly  pursued  me 
Master  Deputy,  I  impute  it  to  his  zealc  against  errors:  I  am 
not  angrie  witli  him  for  it :  but  when  I  saw  seven  shepherds 
and  eight  principall  men  called  out  against  me,  as  if  1  were 
an  Assyrian,1  I  thought  there  might  be  something  in  me  to 
bee  reproved,  and  that  it  concerned  mce  to  lookc  about  mcc. 
I  dealt  plaiuely :  I  told  that  I  held,  and  so  doe  from  my  heart, 
the  Apostles  neither  did  nor  could  crrc,  because  infallibly  in 
spired  by  the  Holy  Ghost.  Thereupon  my  book  was  referred 
to  the  consideration  of  the  Elders.  Having  intimated  a  word 
of  my  other  mainc  taskc  to  M1!  Deputy,  they  all  now  press 
me  to  produce  that:  1  told  them  it  was  not  ready  for  theire 
view;  1  must  fa  ire  write  it,  and  alter  some  things;  yet  at 
length,  upon  promise  that  I  should  have  it  againe  (for  if  it  be 
no  error,  I  will  not  part  with  it  for  £100.)  I  promised  to  let 
them  see  it.  I  have  accordingly  left  it  to  Mr.  Deputy  and  the 

1  The  allusion  is  to  Micah  v.  5.    [T.] 
4 


50  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK, 

Governor  (who  also  desired  to  see  it).  Now  the  reason  I 
open  these  things  to  you  so,  is  this :  First,  that  if  you  hearc 
of  some  of  these  things,  you  may  from  me  understand  the 
truth  itselfe :  Secondly,  that  I  may  not  he  judged  upon  [im 
perfections  ?]  in  my  writings,  hy  your  ayde  and  counscll  to 
the  contrary :  Thirdly,  that  the  assembly  of  the  Elders  may 
he  full  when  you  undertake  to  sifte  the  maine  matters ;  and 
that  you  shall  be  one,  M*  Warde  l  another,  and  M?  Parker  of 
Newbury ;  and  that  M^  Norton  and  M^  Phillips  may  likewise 
be  called,  for  it  will  concerne  you  all.  The  maine  question 
will  be,  whether  the  hierarchy  of  Rome,  or  papacie,  although 
antichristian,  be  that  Man  of  Sin  [etc.]  ?  I  meane  the  maine 
that  will  trouble  either  mee  or  the  churches :  the  other  things 

O 

I  confessc  arc  also  of  great  consequence,  but  they  all  concerne 
the  day  of  Judgment  and  things  [after  ?]  in  the  great  and 
excellent  Kingdom  of  our  Lord :  and  I  wrote  you  this  letter 
(because  of  some  receipt  of  injury  that  hereof  is)  to  let  you 
know  that  I  appeal  to  all  the  teaching  Elders  of  the  Churches 
within  this  Jurisdiction,  et  vos  omnes  testor  per  nomen  caris- 
simum  Domini  nostri  Jesu  Christi,  that  you  soundly  and 
maturely  would  advise  and  consult  of  the  matter ;  and  regard 
with  all  lawfull  favour 

Your  unworthy  servant, 

THOMAS  LECHFORD, 
BOSTON,  3.  11?  1G38. 

[  31]  Let  all  men  knowc  by  these  presents  that  whereas  I 
Richard  Walker2  of  Lynnc  in  New  E.,  planter,  upon  the 
special  instance  and  request  of  [Wanfc]  Howes,3  late  of  Lynne 
aforesd  and  now  of  Mattachecs,  pltr,  became  suerity  for  him 
for  a  certaine  debt  of  his  lately  owing  unto  one  Samuel  Smith, 

1  These     are     evidently     Nathaniel  for  some  years,  and  then  afterwards  for 
Ward  and  John   Norton,    of  Ipswich,  Reading,    whither    he    removed    aliout 
Thomas  Parker,  of  Newbury,  and  George  1050;   he  returned,  however,  to  Lynn, 
Phillips,  ofWatertown.  where  he  died,  very  aged,  in  1G87. 

2  Richard  Walker,  of  Lynne,  thought  8  Two  of    the    name,    Samuel    ami 
to  have  come  in  1630,  was  an  officer  in  Thomas     Howes,    were    at     Yarmouth 
the  militia,  so  called,  and  a   represen-  (Mattachces,    or   Mattakrese)    in    1G38. 
tutive  for  Lynn  in   the   General   Court  [T.] 


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the  said  Howes  promising  and  undertaking  to  save  me  harmc- 
lesse  of  the  sayd  suertiship  and  all  Daimnagcs  that  sliould 
arise  and  eomc  upon  me  by'reason  of  the  same,  and  the  said 
Samuel  Smith  presented  his  accon  for  the  said  Debt  against 
both  me  and  the  said  Howes,  before  the  Governor  Councell 
and  Assistants  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the  Massachusetts  in 
New  E.  in  the  Court  there  holden  before  them,  the  fourth  day 
of  the  tenth  moncth  of  this  present  yeare  and  thcrtipon  re 
covered  against  me  and  the  said  Howes  the  siimmc  of  thirty 
bushells  of  corne  and  tenne  shillings  for  costs  of  suit  in  dis 
charge  whereof  I  was  compelled  to  pay  the  summc  of  nyne 
pounds  and  tennc  shillings,  the  said  Howes  not  having  payd 
any  parte  thereof,  and  also  I  have  ben  put  to  other  charges 
in  travcll  &,  expcnces  hereabout,  to  the  summe  of  twelve  shil 
lings.  Now  I  the  said  Richard  Walker  doe  hereby  authorize 
and  appoint  my  wclbeloved  frcind  Edward  Dillingham  of 
Sandwich  in  N.  E.  gent,  my  true  &  lawfull  Attorney  to  sue 
the  said  [Wc/«fc]  Howes  for  me  <fc  in  my  name  upon  this  my 
accon  of  trespas  upon  the  case,  and  my  Dammagcs  thereupon 
to  recover  of  and  against  him  the  said  [blank']  Howes,  to  my 
use,  before  the  Governor  and  Court  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  New 
Plimouth  or  elsewhere,  Witnesse  my  hand  and  scale  hereunto 
set,  the  Twenty  nynth  day  of  the  eleventh  moncth,  Anno  Dni 
1G38.  In  prncia  mei  T.  L.  [Is.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  last  Day  of  February,  in  the  foure- 
tecnth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  by 
the  grace  of  God  King  of  England  £c.  Annocp  Dm  1638, 
Betwecnc  Samuel  Cole  of  Boston  in  New  England,  Inholder, 
of  the  one  parte,  and  Captaine  Robert  Sedgwicke  1  of  Charlcs- 
towne  in  New  England  aforesaid,  of  the  other  parte,  Witncss- 
eth,  that  the  said  Samuel  Cole2  for  and  in  consideration  of 

1  Robert   Sedgwick,*  a  man  of  groat  2  "Samuel    Cole    set    up    the    first 

consequence,  came  in   lf>35  to  Charles-  house    for   common    entertainment"   in 

town  ;  died  in  .Jamaica,  1650.     He  was  Boston  in  1633  or  1634  (  JJ'infh.,  i.  124- 

ii  prominent  military  man,  captain  of  the  125).     Tie  was  licensed  by  the  General 

artillery  company  in  1640,  commander  Court,  September,  1635,  under  the  Act 

of  the  Castle  the  next  year,  and  after-  for  the  Regulation  of  Ordinaries  passed 

wards  major-general  of  the  Colony.  the  year  previous  (Mass.  Rccords/i.  159)  ; 


52  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

the  sumine  of  two  hundred  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  Eng 
land  to  him  in  hand  satislied  &  payd  by  the  said  Captainc 
Sedgwicke,  before  the  sealing  and  delivery  hereof ,  whereof  and 


and  his  was  the  principal,  if  not  the 
only,  inn  of  Boston  until   September, 
1638,  when,  as  appears  by  this  convey 
ance,  and  the  articles  of  agreement  which 
follow,  he  sold  it  to  Captain  Robert  Sedg- 
wick.     The  position  of  the  inn  has  al 
ways  been  supposed  to  have  been  "on 
the  west  side  of  Merchants'  Row,  mid 
way  from  State  Street  to  Faneuil  Hull  " 
(Whitman's  Hist.  Ancient  and  Hon.  Ar 
tillery  Co.,  2d  ed.,  p.  45  ;  see  also  Drake's 
Boston,    pp.    232,    240,    and   Memorial 
History  of  UostoH,  vol.   ii.  p.  xx.).     It 
seems,  however,  from  this  deed  that  its 
position  was  immediately  to  the  north 
of  Edward  Hutchinson's  estate,  whereon 
the  Old  Corner  Bookstore  now  stands. 
The  grounds  for  this  opinion  are  as  fol 
lows  :  Cole  kept  an  inn   and  sold  beer 
and   wine,   suffering  various   fines   and 
punishments,    until    March    12,     1G38, 
when  he  received  leave  to  sell  his  house 
for  an  inn.     This  deed  in   the  text  is 
dated  the  last  day  of  February,  1638  ; 
there  is   nothing  to  show  that  it  was 
immediately  executed.     The  last  men 
tion  of  Cole  as  an  innkeeper  is  May  2, 
1G3S.     In  1042,  "whereas  Capt.  Sedg- 
wick    hath    before    this  time  set  up  a 
brew-house  at  his  great  charge,  &  very 
commodious  for  this  part  of  the  country, 
he  is  freely  licenced  to  brew  beer  to  sell," 
etc.  (Muss.  Records,  i.   214).     Thus   it 
would  seem  that  Sedgwick,  having  pur 
chased  the  inn,  took  up  the  business  of 
innkeeping  as  Cole  dropped  it.     It  seems 
that  the  business  was  carried  on  upon 
the  spot  named  above  rather  than   by 
the  waterside,  from  the  fact  that  Srdg- 
wiek  is  given  this  piece  of  ground  alone 
in    the   Hook  of  Possessions,    and   that 
nlthough  the  land   in  the  text  is  not 
accurately  described,  the  idea  to  be  got 


therefrom  is  that  it  was  to  the  north  of 
Mr.  Hutchinson's  estate.  That  Cole 
kept  his  inn  on  this  spot  seems  clear 
from  the  fact  that  ho  is  said  in  the  deed 
to  have  lately  dwelled  there,  and  also 
from  his  having  at  this  time  no  other 
land  (known  to  us),  except  perhaps  a 
piece  which  he  sold  in  1645  to  George 
llalsall,  a  blacksmith  and  ferryman, 
who  had  no  license  to  sell  beer  or  keep 
an  inn  ;  from  which  it  would  seem  that 
none  had  been  kept  there. 

[For  this  reasoning  I  am  indebted  to 
Mr.  George  Lamb,  who  was  kind  enough, 
upon  iny  application^  *to  look  up  all  the 
property  held  by  Cole  and  by  Seilg- 
wick,  and  to  send  me  his  opinion  upon 
the  subject.  —  E.  E.  H.,  Jr.] 

In  June,  1637,  the  young  Lord  Ley, 
son  of  the  Earl  of  Marlborough,  arriving 
at  Boston  when  Governor  Winthrop  was 
absent,  "took    up  his   lodging   at    the 
common  inn  ;  "  and  afterwards  declined 
the  Governor's  invitation  to  become  his 
guest,  "saying,  that  he  came  not  to  be 
troublesome  to  any,  and  the  house  where 
he  was,  was  so  well  governed   that  he 
could  be  as  private  there  as  elsewhere  " 
(}Viuth.,  i.  230).     A  few  months  after 
wards  (Nov.  15,  1637)  Mr.  Cole  "  being 
convented  for  having  had  much  disorder 
in  his  house,  selling  wine  contrary  to 
order,    and   beare   above   the  price   or 
dered,"  was  fined  £'30  ( Mass.  Records,  i. 
208).     At  the  same  Court  his  name  ap 
pears  among  those  of  "  Boston  men  to 
be  disarmed"  for  their  sympathy  with 
Mr.  Wheelwright  and  Mrs.  Ilutchinson. 
In  March,  1638,  his  fine  Avas  "respited 
till  the  next  Court,  and  hce  hath  lib 
erty   to   sell   his   house,  for   an    inne " 
(Ibid.,  p.  226).    And  after  he  had  effected 
the   sale,  his  fine  was  again  remitted, 


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wherewith  the  said  Samuell  Doth  acknowledge  himsclfe  sat 
isfied  &  paid,  and  thereof  and  of  every  purtc  thereof 
doth  acquitc,  release  &  forever  discharge  the  said  Captaine 


and  finally  "  discounted,"  by  a  grant 
of  £10,  iu  November,  1639  (Ibid.,  pp. 
245,  279).  Subsequently  Mr.  Cole  lived 
at  I'umney  Marsh  (Chelsea),  where  he 
had  a  "great  allotment"  of  laud, 
laid  out  in  1037.  He  was  one  of  the 
constables  of  Boston  in  16-48  ;  select 
man,  1653,  and  for  several  years  after 
(Drake's  Boston,  pp.  235,  312,  333,  etc.). 

It  appears  by  this  conveyance  and 
the  accompanying  articles  of  agree 
ment,  that  in  September,  1638,  or 
shortly  before,  he  was  living  in  the 
south  half  of  a  new  house,  adjoining 
the  old  (which  was  yet  standing),  the 
north  part  of  which  was  sold  to  Thomas 
Marry ott  (or  Marrett)  and  others  ;  and 
that  Mr.  William  Hutchinson  and  his 
wife  were  his  next-door  neighbors  un 
til  the  removal  of  Mr.  Hutchinson  to 
Khode  Island. 

Whether  Captain  Sedgwick  occu 
pied  for  a  time  the  house  purchased 
of  Mr.  Cole,  or  let  it  to  some  other 
person  as  an  ordinary,  does  not  ap- 
penr.  In  November,  1637,  he  had 
"  set  up  a  brew  house,"  and  was  li 
censed  by  the  Court  to  brew  and  sell 
beer  (Mans.  Records,  i.  214).  In  No 
vember,  1639,  he  "was  admonished 
to  take  heede  of  oppression"  (Ibid.,  p. 
279),  but  of  what  kind,  the  record  does 
not  inform  us.  A  few  months  later 
(April  30,  1640)  William  Hudson  — 
having  been  chosen  by  the  town  of 
Boston  to  keep  an  ordinary  —  was 
allowed  by  the  Particular  Court,  and 
by  the  General  Court  in  May  follow 
ing  (Iltid.,  pp.  287,  290). 

Josselyn  says:  "In  1637  there  were 
not  many  houses  in  the  Town  of  Bos 
ton,  amongst  which  were  two  houses 
of  entertainment,  called  Ordinaries  " 


(Second  Voyage,,  p.  173;  3  Mass.  Hi  fit. 
Coll.,  iii.  337).  Mr.  Drake  thought 
that  "if  Josselyn  meant  that  there 
were  two  inns  in  1637,  he  probably 
included  the/  one  in  Charlestown,"  as 
there  is  nothing  in  the  records  to  show 
that  there  was  more  than  one  in  Bos 
ton  (Hist,  of  Boston,  p.  240,  note). 
But  it  is  certain  that  William  Baulstou 
(or  Balstone)  was  "licensed  to  keepo 
a  house  of  intcrtainment  and  ...  to 
sell  such  claret  and  white  wine  as  is 
sent  for,"  in  June,  1637  (Mass,  Rec 
ords,  i.  199).  Balstone,  like  Samuel 
Cole,  was  an  adherent  of  Mrs.  Hutch 
inson  ;  like  Cole,  he  was  lined  —  prob 
ably  for  "disorder  in  his  house"  —  in 
November,  1637,  and  disarmed,  with 
other  Boston  Antinomians,  the  same 
month  ;  having  been  previously  fined 
and  disfranchised  for  signing  the  peti 
tion  in  favor  of  Mr.  Wheelwright. 
The  following  March  he  was  licensed 
to  depart  the  jurisdiction  of  Massa 
chusetts  (with  Coddington,  Coggeshnll, 
and  others),  and  not  long  afterward? 
removed  to  Portsmouth,  II.  I.  (.l/ii-w. 
Records,  i.  207,  208,  212,  223  ;  Sav 
age,  Gcneal.  Diet.,  s.  n.).  In  August, 
1638,  the  town  of  Boston  authorized 
Mr.  Thomas  Cornnell  to  "buy  brother 
Willyam  Balstone's  house,  and  to  be 
come  an  inhabitant"  (Town  Records, 
p.  35)  ;  and  in  September  the  General 
Court  licensed  Cornnell,  or  Cornhill  [or 
as  I.eohford  once  writes  the  name,  far 
ther  on,  Cornish],  "  to  kcepe  an  inn,  in 
the  roome  of  William  Banlston  "  (Muss. 
Records,  i.  238).  Cornhill  was  not  more 
fortunate  than  were  his  predecessors  in 
retaining  the  favor  of  the  Court.  In 
June,  1639,  after  having  been  fined 
"for  several  offences,"  he  was  "alowed 


54  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Sedgwickc,  his  [32]  heircs,  executors  and  administrators  and 
every  of  them  by  these  presents,  Hath  granted,  bargained  & 
sold,  and  by  these  prsents  doth  grant,  bargaine  &  sell  unto  the 
said  Captaine  Sedgwicke,  all  that  parte  of  one  new  mansion 
house  in  Boston  aforesaid  wherein  the  said  Samuel  [yet  dwell- 
eth,  crossed  out,]  lately  dwelled  [together  with  the  old  house 
and  leanetoos  and  stable,  hogstyes,  and  house  of  ollicc,  yard 
and  garden,  betwixt  the  house  &  garden  of  Mr.  Williu  Ilutch- 
inson  on  the  south  parte  and  that  other  parte  of  the  said 
mansion  house,  of  the  said  outhouses — crossed  out,]  wch  lyes 
to  the  south  end  of  the  said  house  beyond  the  sommer  or 
beanie  wch  lyes  overthwart  the  great  chamber,  and  up  and 
downe  by  the  said  beame  from  the  bottome  of  the  seller  to 
the  top  of  the  house,  and  in  breadth  from  cast  to  west  the  full 
extent  of  the  said  house  and  shcdds  adioyning  (excepting 
roome  on  the  south  parte  of  the  said  bcame,  next  to  it,  for  the 
making  of  a  stacke  of  brick  chimneys  from  the  seller  to  the 
top  of  the  said  new  house,  for  that  part  of  the  same  house 
assured  to  the  said  Thomas  Murryot  &  others)  And  also  all 
that  parte  of  the  garden  belonging  to  the  said  house  wch 
lyes  from  the  north  parte  of  the  corner  post  of  the  new  gar 
den  pale  southward,  and  soe  through  the  garden  to  the  west 
end  of  it,  [And  also  the  northcrne  halfe  of  the  brew  house, 
and  all  that  parte  of  the  court  yard  lying  opposite  to  the  old 
house,  reaching  six  foote  from  the  corner  of  the  shedd  of  the 
new  house  to  the  corner  of  the  shedd  of  the  old  house  wch  is 
on  this  &  from  the  said  shedd  south  westward  to  the  end  of 
the  said  yardc —  crossed  out,]  And  also  the  old  house  and  leau- 
toos,  yard  &  garden  thereto  belonging,  and  all  wayes,  case 
ments,  lights  &  fences  to  the  premises  belonging,  except  as 
much  ground  of  the  said  yard  of  the  old  house  as  rcacheth 
straight  alonur  from  the  corner  of  the  shedd  of  the  new  house 


a  month  to  sell  of  his  Leare  \vch  is  upon  his   pi-tit  ion    for   the   remission   of  the 

his  huml,  and  then  to  cense  from  keep-  penalty,  June  6,  1639  (Xote-book,  p.  55, 

ing    intcrtaimnent,    and   the   towne   to  post).     Jan.  11,  1639-1640,  Cornell  sold 

provide  another"  (Ibiil.j  pp.  260,  266).  his  house  and   lands  to  Edward  Tyug 

The  offences  for  which  he  incurred  the  (Sit/.  Deeds,  ii.  26).     [T.J 
displeasure  of  the  Court  are  set  forth  in 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  55 

within  six  footc  of  the  corner  of  the  shedd  of  the  old  house, 
and  except  put  supra,  To  have  &  to  hold  all  and  singulare  the 
prmises  wth  the  appurtenances,  except  below  cxceptcd,  unto 
the  said  Captain  Scdgewick  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever 
To  the  only  use  and  proper  bchoofe  of  the  said  Captain  Sedge- 
wick  his  heiros  and  assignes  for  ever.  And  the  said  Samuel 
Cole  doth  for  himself  his  heires  executors  and  administrators 
Covenant  promise  and  grant  to  and  wth  the  said  Captain  Scdge 
wick  his  heires  and  assignes  hy  these  presents  that  he  and  they 
shall  or  lawfully  may  quietly  and  peaceably  hold  and  enjoy 
the  premises  and  every  part  thereof  hereby  mentioned  to  be 
granted  freed  and  discharged  of  all  incombrances  whatsoever 
for  any  thing  done  or  to  be  done  by  the  said  Samuel  Cole  his 
heirs  executors  administrators  or  assignes  to  the  contrary 
thereof  notwithstanding.  And  further  that  he  the  said  Samuel 
Cole  his  heires  and  assignes  and  his  wife  shall  and  will  do  and 
make  any  further  assurance  in  the  law  whatsoever  [33]  for 
the  more  sure  making  of  the  premises  hereby  mentioned  to 
be  granted  unto  the  said  Captain  Scdgewick  his  heires  and 
assignes  according  to  the  purport  of  these  presents,  wth  war 
ranty  against  him  the  said  Samuel  Cole  and  his  wife  and  their 
heirs  and  against  all  manner  of  persons  clayming  or  that  shall 
or  may  clay  me  from  by  or  under  him  them  or  any  or  either  of 
them  and  by  the  said  Captain  Sedgewick  his  heires  or  assignes 
shall  be  reasonably  advised  devised  or  required  any  time  wthin 
the  space  of  seven  yeares  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  so  that 
for  the  doing  or  making  thereof  the  said  Samuel  Cole  and  his 
wife  and  their  heires  and  assignes  shall  not  be  compelled  to 
travell  out  of  the  jurisdiccon  of  the  Massachusetts  bay  in  New 
England.  In  witncsse  &c.  [6s.] 


56  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Articles  of  agreement  indented  made  the  ffirst  Day  of  Septem* 
ber x  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1638,  Betiveene  Samuel  Cole 
of  Boston  in  New  England,  Inholder,  of  the  one  parte  and 
Captaine  Robert  Sedwicke  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England 
of  the  other  parte,  in  manner  and  forme  following  :  — 

1.  Imprimis  the  said  Samuel  Cole  for  himselfe  and  his  wife 
and  their  heires  shall  for  two  hundred  pounds  firmly  convey  & 
assure   unto   the    said    Captaine    Sedgwicke,  his   heires    and 
assignes  for  ever,  all  that  parte  of  the  new  house  wherein  the 
said  Samuel  lately  dwelled  in  Boston  aforesaid,  and  the  old 
house  adjoyning  wth  the  shedds,  court  yard,  garden  and  appur 
tenances,  to  be  divided  from  that  parte  of  the  said  new  house 
and  garden  wth  the  appurtenances  assured  to  Thomas  Marryot 
&  others,  and  the  old  house  and  leantoos,  yard   and  garden 
thereto  belonging,  wth  the  appurtenances. 

2.  It iii,  the  said  Captaine  Sedgwicke  is  to  find  one  hoggshcad 
of  lyme  and  the  said  Samuel  Cole  shall  therewith  cause  to  be 
mended  the  backe  of  the  chimney  of  the  leantoo  and  the  rough 
cast  of  the  outsydc  of  the  new  house,  the  said  Samuel  finding 
all  other  materialls  necessary  thereunto. 

3.  Itiii,  the  said  Captaine  Sedgwicke  shall  have  the  buildinges 
and  materialls  of  the  stable,  hogstyes  and  house  of  office  on 
that  parte   of   the  said  new  house,  yard  &   garden   assured 
to  Thomas  M.  &  others  now  standing,  to  be  removed  by  the 
said  Captaine  Sedgwicke  when  he  will,  or  when  he  shall  be 
required  so  to  doc  by  the  said  Thomas  M.  and  others  or  their 
assigncs. 

4.  It  in,  that  the  said  Captaine  Sedgwicke,  his  heires   and 
assignes,  shall  at  their  costs  &  charges  cause  the  premises  to 
him  and  them  to  be  granted,  to  be  divided  from  that  parte  of 
the  said  new  house  and  garden  and  yard  assured  to  Thomas 
Marryot  and  others  as  aforesaid,  and  remove  &  build  chim 
neys  &  doe  all  other  things,  as  the  said  Samuel  Cole  is  bound 
to  doe  by  a  ccrtaine  writing  under  his  hand  &  scale  made 
unto  the  said  Thomas  Marryot  and  others,  Dated  the  tenth  of 

1  First  written  (and  crossed  out),  "the  twentyeth  day  of  February."     [T.] 


LECHTORD'S   MAXUSCRJJ'T  NOTE-BOOK.  57 

Aprill  last  past,  whereof  the  said   Oaptaine   Sodgwicko   may 
take  a  coppy. 

5.  ItiTi,  the  said  Captaine  Scdgwickc  shall  at  his  cost  and 
charges  cause  to  be  clapboardcd  round  the  house  frame  of  the 
said  Samuel  Cole  now  in  rearing  next  M.  Grccnesmith's !  in  Bos 
ton  precincts,  and  cause  to  he  layd  two  floares  in  the  said  house 
wth  hoards,  and  shall  pay  for  the  thatching  of  the  said  house,  and 
lend  the  said  Samuel  Cole  a  lighter  to  fetch  the  thatch  for 
the  same.  [2s.  Qd.  and  a  coppy  of  M?  Marriotts  hargaine,  8d] 


[34]  This  indenture  made  the  sixteenth  day  of  March, 
Anno  Dili  1638,  Betweenc  Richard  Evcred  2  of  Dcdham  in  New 
England,  Pharier,  of  the  one  partc,  and  Thomas  Nelson3  of 
Boston  in  New  England,  gent,  of  the  other  partc,  Witnesseth, 
that  the  said  Richard  Evered  for  the  sumo  of  tcnnc  pounds  to 
him  in  hand  payd  by  the  said  Thomas  Nelson,  whereof  the 


1  This    was   probably  Steven  Green- 
smith,  who  had  incurred  the  displeasure 
of    the    Court    in    March,    1637,    "  for 
ailiniiing  that  all  the  ministers  (except 
Mr.    Cotton,    Mr.  Whcelright,  and  hee 
thought  Mr.  Hooker)  did  teach  a  cove 
nant  of  works."     For  this  he  was  fined 
£40,   and   required   to   give  satisfaction 
to  the  ministers  and  the  churches.     In 
August    following    he   was    committed 
for  non-payment  of  his  fine  (Mass.  Rec 
ords,  i.  189,  196,  200;    JfrintJi.,  i.  234). 
In  September,  1636,   Mr.  Cole  was  fined 
for  the  breach  of  a  town  order,  in  selling 
a   lot   to    Mr.    Greenfield   [Greensmith] 
without  consent  of  authority  ;  and  soon 
alter  "Mr.   (Jreensmyth  "  is   named   as 
the  proprietor  of  land  near  Mr.   Cole's 
ground  at  Huniney  Marsh  (Drake's  Uos- 
ton,  pp.  194,  195).     [T.] 

2  Mr.    Savage   says    this    name    "  is 
uniformly  given  Everard."     The  name 
of  Ezekiel   Rogers,  as  a  witness  to  this 
mortgage,  suggests  the  possible  affinity 
of   this    Richard    Everard    to    "  Sarah, 
daughter   of  John    Everard,    citizen   of 


London,"  who  became  the  second  wife  of 
the  Rev.  Daniel  Rogers,  of  AVethersficld, 
Essex  county,  son  and  successor  of  the 
Rev.  Richard  Rogers,  and  elder  brother 
of  the  Rev.  Ezekiel  Rogers  (Candlcr 
Manuscript,  corrected  rending  by  Colonel 
J.  L.  Chester,  in  Proc.  Mass.  Hist.  Soc., 
1860-1862,  p.  496).  This  instrument 
shows  Everard  to  have  been  a  pro 
prietor  and  householder  at  Cambridge, 
if  not  an  inhabitant,  before  his  set 
tlement  at  the  new  plantation  of 
Dedham.  [T.] 

3  Thomas  Nelson  came,  probably 
with  the  Rev.  Ezekiel  Rogers  [witness 
to  this  indenture],  in  the  summer  of 
1638,  and  was  living  at  Boston  until 
the  establishment  of  the  Rowley  Com 
pany  in  their  new  plantation  (see  p.  1, 
ante,  note).  In  his  will  of  Aug.  6,  1648, 
he  names  as  his  executors  his  "uncle, 
Richard  Dummer,"  and  Governor  Bel- 
lingham  (Hist,  and  Gcncal.  Jlcg.,  iii. 
267).  He  married  Joanna,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Dummer,  of  Salisbury,  and 
niece  of  Richard  (Savage}.  [T.] 


58  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

said  Richard  Evcrard  doth  hereby  acknowledge  the  receipt  and 
that  he  is  thereof  and  therewith  satisfied  hath  granted,  bar 
gained  &  sold  and  by  these  presents  doth  grant  bargaine  & 
sell  unto  the  said  Thomas  Nelson  All  that  his  house  and  lott 
lying  in  Cambridge  in  New  England  and  six  acres  of  arrable 
land  thereto  adjoyning,  and  five  acres  of  medowe  thereto  be 
longing,  wth  the  appurtenances,  To  have  and  to  hold  the  prem 
ises  with  all  an<^  singulare  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said 
Thomas  Nelson  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever  to  the  only 
use  and  proper  behoof  of  him  the  said  Thomas  Nelson  his 
heires  and  assignes  for  ever.  And  the  said  Richard  Evered 
doth  hereby  covenant,  promise  &  grant  to  and  wth  the  said 
Thomas  Nelson  his  heires  and  assignes  by  these  presents  that 
they  shall  or  may  lawfully  quietly  hold  the  premises  freed  of 
all  incumbrances  whatsoever  notwithstanding  any  thing  done 
or  to  be  done  by  him  the  said  Richard  Evered'  his  heires  ex 
ecutors  administrators  or  assignes.  Provided  always  that  if 
the  said  Richard  Evered  his  heires  or  executors  shall  truly 
pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the  said  Thomas  Nelson,  his 
heires  or  assignes,  the  summe  of  tenne  pounds,  at  the  house 
of  Richard  Bellingham  Esqr  in  Boston  aforesaid,  upon  the 
thirtieth  day  of  September  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof,  then 
this  grant  bargaine  &  sale  shall  be  voyd.  In  witnesse  <fcc. 
Ez.  Rogers,  Jacobi  Luxford,  &  mei.  [3s.] 

To  all  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come  greeting, 
Whereas  I  Richard  lies  1  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England, 
Carpenter,  did  heretofore  retcyne  one  servant  named  Ambrose 

1  His  name  is  here  written  as  it  ap-  accustomed  caution,  notices  this  Richard 

pears  in  the  record  of  his  will,  on  the  under  the  several  surnames  of  "lies  or 

first  page  of  the  Suffolk  Probate  Records,  Hills,"    "Hill  or  Hills,"  and  "  Eells, 

vol.  i.  (Hist,  and  Gencal.  Rcg.y  ii.  102,  Ells,  Eels,  orEales;"  but  finds  "much 

186).     Mr.  T.  W.  Harris,  in  notes  on  plausibility  "  in  the  argument  for  Hills 

this  will  (Ibid.,  p.  218),  said  that  Rich-  (Geneal.  Did.,  ii.  105,  419).     Elsewhere 

ard   Hills,    "  incorrectly  written   lies"  Lechford  writes,  "John  lies  of  Dorches- 

\vas  a  cooper  ;   admitted  an  inhabitant  tcr,"   whose  name    usually  appears  as 

of  Charlestowri  in   1638  ;  and  that  he  Hills,    or  Hill  (p.  90,   post).      But  he 

was  probably  a  younger  brother  of  Mr.  writes  "Joseph  Hills  of  Charlestown," 

Joseph  Hills,  who  became  an  inhabitant  as  in  deposition,  July  30,   1639  (p.  91, 

at  the  same  time.      Mr.  Savage,  with  post).     [T.] 


LE  C II FORD  'S   MA  XL' SCR  IP  T  NO  TE-BOOK.  50 

Sutton  to  serve  me  in  the  trade  of  Carpentry  by  the  space  of 
five  yearcs  from  the  last  day  of  May  last  past  to  be  fully  com- 
plcatc  and  ended,  for  certain  wages  agreed  on  betwccne  me 
and  the  said  Ambrose  by  Indenture  made  betwccne  me  & 
him,  and  whereas  I  appointed  him  to  worke  for  me  at  the 
Island  called  Aqueduct,  where  he  received  three  pounds  and 
t\velvc  shillings  for  his  workc,  wch  money  is  due  to  me,  being 
his  Master,  notwithstanding  the  sayd  Ambrose  contrary  to  his 
duty  is  departed  from  my  service,  carrying  wth  him  the  said 
money.  Therefore  hereby  I  doe  authorize  and  in  my  place 
put  my  [35]  much  esteemed  freind  M'  Isaackc  Allerton  my 
lawfull  Deputy  and  Attorney  for  me  and  in  my  name  to  pur 
sue,  findc  out,  apprehend  and  recover  my  said  servant  and  the 
said  money,  by  the  authority  of  any  magistrats  or  governors 
whatsoever,  either  Christian  or  heathen,  and  him  to  bring 
or  cause  to  be  brought  backc  to  me,  ratefying  and  allowing 
whatsoever  my  said  Attorney  or  Deputy  shall  lawfully  Doe  in 
the  prmises.  In  witnesse  <fcc.  19  Martii,  1688,  in  prncia  mci 
&  Thome  Yeowe.1 

The  description  of  the  said  Ambrose  Sutton.  He  is  aged 
26  yearcs,  of  browne  blacke  haire,  a  full  face,  a  black  eye,  a 
sharp  nose,  some  haire  upon  his  upper  lip,  of  middle  stature, 
well  sett.  His  cloathcs,  a  coloured  white  russet  hat,  a  sute  of 
kersy  home-made  cloath  neare  a  lead  colour.  And  he  was 
borne  in  Wcstwell  ncare  Burford  in  Oxfordshire.  [Is.] 

To  all  Christian  people  unto  whome  these  presents  shall 
come,  1  Nicholas  Parker  of  Boston2  in  New  England,  yeoman, 

1  Thomas  Yo\v  is  named  as  a  land-  supplies  yet  another,  in  his  mention  of 

holder  in  Boston  in  1648  (Look  of  Pos-  "Thomas  Yau,  master  of  a  vessel  clear- 

sessions,  p.  45) ;  and  I  have  not  met  with  ing  [from  Boston]  for  the  Kenebec,"  to 

the  name  earlier,   on  this   side  of  the  whom  the  Father  was   "very  particu- 

Atlantic,  except  in  this  instrument,  and  larly  commended"  by  "Sieur  Guebin," 

in  a  mortgage  by  Allen  Yewe,  of  Boston,  [Major  Gibbons]  (Coll.  N.  Y.  Hist.  Soc., 

mariner,   executed  in  1640  (and  copied  2d  ser.,  iii.  315,  310).     [T.] 

on   a  subsequent  page  from  Lechford).  2  Nicholas     and     Richard      Parker, 

Mr.  Savage  gives  Yow,  Yeo\v,  and  Yew  both   of   Boston    in    1639,    were  joint 

as  varieties  of  the  surname  Yeo  ;   and  owners  of   a  house  and   lot   (next  Mr. 

Father   Druillettes,   in   the   Journal   of  Thomas   Welde's)   in    Roxbury,    which 

his  embassy  to  New  England,  in  1650,  they   sold,   July    18,  1639,  to   William 


60  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting,  Know  yce  that  I 
for  the  summc  of  thirty  pounds  of  currant  money  of  England 
to  me  in  hand  payd  by  [Walter]  Blackborne  l  of  Roxbury  in 
New  England,  [gent.,]  Doe  hereby  grant,  bargaine  and  sell 
unto  the  said  [Walter]  Blackborne,  all  that  my  parccll  of 
meadow  or  pasture  ground  inclosed  lying  in  Roxbury  afore 
said,  conteyning  five  acres  or  thereabouts,  abutting  upon  the 
lands  of  M?  Welles,  pastor  of  Roxbury  on  the  east,  upon  the 
highway  leading  from  Boston  to  Roxbury  on  the  west,  upon 
a  foot  path  leading  from  Roxbury  to  Dorchester  on  the  north, 
and  upon  the  land  of  Mr  Samuel  Hagburne,  late  M.r  Pinchions, 
on  the  south,  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  parcell  of  meadow 
or  pasture  ground  wth  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  [Wal 
ter]  Blackbourne  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever  To  the  only 
use  and  proper  behoof  of  the  said  [Walter]  Blackbourne  his 
heires  and  assignes  for  ever.  In  witnesse  etc.'* 

To  all  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come  greeting,  Whereas 
Thomas  Beech  now  remayning  att  the  Dutch  Plantation  stand- 
cth  indebted  unto  me  Peter  Garland  of  New  England  Mariner 
the  sinnme  of  thirty  three  pounds  fourc  shillings  and  six  pence 
upon  account  between  me  and  him  in  writing  signed  with  my 
hand  the  day  of  the  date  of  these  presents  and  whereas  there  is 
due  to  me  also  divers  other  debts  amounting  [36]  to  the  sinnnie 
of  six  pounds  three  shillings  and  nyne  pence  from  sundry  per 
sons  as  by  the  particulars  at  the  foot  of  the  said  account  ap- 
pcareth  wch  I  have  authorised  the  said  Thomas  Beech  for  me 
and  in  my  name  to  collect  and  take  up,  Now  Know  yee  that 
I  have  hereby  appointed  £  in  my  place  put  my  trusty  ffriend 
Isaacke  Allcrton  of  New  England  mariner  my  lawful  Attorney 

Cheney,  of  Roxbury.     Richard  was  ad-  Hum  Cheney,  Sopt.  30,  1639,  describing 

niitted  an  inhabitant  of  Boston,   Sept.  himself  in  the  deed  as   "late   of  llox- 

30,  1639.     Nicholas  had  lived  at   Rox-  bury."     In  1640  or  1641  he  returned  to 

bury,  from  his  coming  to  New  England,  England  (Stiff.    Deeds,   i.  20),    whither 

in   1633,  until   1635  or  1636,  when  he  his   wife    Elizalxjth   probably  soon    fol- 

removed  to  Boston.      [T.]  lowed  him,  as  she  made  a  letter  of  at- 

"  Walter   Blackburne,  of    Boston,  torney  in  July,  1641,  to  Joseph  Wcldc 

1640,  had  perhaps  lived  at  Roxbury  "  and  John  Johnson,  of  Roxbury,  to  coi- 

(Savage,    in    Gcncal.    Did.).     He    sold  Icct  debts  due  her  husband  and   remit 

his  house;  and  land  in  Roxbury  to  Wil-  the  money  to  him.     [T.] 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  61 

for  me  &  in  my  name  to  demand  <fe  recover  the  said  surnmo 
of  the  said  Thomas  Beech  his  executors  and  administrators 
and  also  for  me  to  receive  the  said  six  pounds  three  shillings 
and  nync  pence  of  the  said  Thomas  Beech  from  whome  the 
same  is  due  to  me,  to  my  use ;  and  acquittances  sufficient  in 
my  place  thereupon  to  make  Ratcfying  and  allowing  whatever 
my  said  Attorney  shall  lawfully  doe  in  the  prmises.  In  wit- 
ncssc,  cvc.  nrn  :  Robto.  Scdgwickc  &  mci.  [Is.] 

A  coppy  of  the  Account  <f-  Dehts,  signed  lij  Peter  Garland. 

Thomas  Beech,  I  prny  you  pay  unto  my  good  ffrcind  Mf 
Isaacke  Allorton1  the  abovesaid  somme  of  thirty  three 
pounds  foil  re  shillings  and  six  pence.  And  1  further  desire 
you  to  demand,  recover  and  receive  for  me  the  abovesaid 
somme  of  6/.  3*.  9t7.  of  the  said  partycs  who  owe  the  same 
unto  me,  and  upon  payment  give  them  acquittances,  wch  when 
you  have  received  pay  over  to  my  said  ffrcind  M*  Isaacke 
Allcrton  according  to  my  Letter  of  Attorney  to  him  made  the 
Day  of  the  Date  hereof  in  that  behalfc.  Witnesse  my  hand 
the  twenty  nyneth  day  of  March.  Anno  Dili  1G39. 

At  the  foote  of  the  account  and  note  of  the  said  particulare 
Debts.  Coram  llbto.  Scdgwickc  tt  me.  [I*.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come, 
I  William  Coddington2  of  Aquedneckc  in  New  England,  gen- 

1  Isaac   Allerton,    formerly   of    Ply-  the   Massachusetts  Colonial  Records  in 

mouth,  came  in  the  "  Mayflower,"  and  regard  to  a  debt  of  his  for  £100.     In 

was  one  of  the  signers  (the  fifth  in  order)  Lechford  he  is  twice  mentioned  as  being 

of   the    Cape    Cod  Compact.       He   was  sued    for  debt.     His  fishing  operations 

Assistant  at   Plymouth  for  some  time,  at  Marblehead  wore  not  very  successful 

and  at  this  period  of  his  life  was   one  (see  3  Mnxs.  Hist.   Coll.,  vii.   249,  and 

of  the  richest  of  the  Pilgrims.     Subse-  Mass.    Records,   i.   1 10).     He  had  ivla- 

quently   his   affairs    became   disturbed,  tions  with  Virginia,   naturally  enough, 

He    was   embarrassed,   for  instance,   by  and  also  with  "  New  Holland,"  as  here 

the  loss  of  a  trading  wigwam  at  Machias  appears  (sec  also  p.  151,  footnote)  ;  but 

in  1633  ;   "  by  the  wreck  of  his  pinnace  lived   towards   the   end   of   his   life   at 

from  Port  Royal  in  1634;  and  still  further  New  Haven,    where   he  died   in   debt, 

impoverished  by  the  loss  of  his  bark  at  1659. 

Cape  Ann,  in  1635"  (3  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,          2  William   Coddington,    formerly    of 

vii.  241).     In  1634  he  is  mentioned  in  Boston,    at    this    time    of   Aquidneek. 


62 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


tleman,  send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting,  Knowe  yee 
that  I  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  summe  of  one  thousand 
and  three  hundred  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England,  to  me 
in  hand  satisfyed  and  pay'd  before  the  sealing  and  delivery 
hereof  by  William  Tynge  l  of  Boston  in  New  England,  mer 
chant,  Doc  by  these  presents  grant  [37]  bargaine  and  sell 
unto  the  said  William  Tynge,  all  that  my  Dwelling  house  situ 
ate  in  Boston  aforesaid  adjoyning  to  the  house  of  Richard 
Bellingham  Esqr,  wth  the  garden  and  the  orchard,  and  a  cer- 
tainc  parcell  of  land,  meadow  or  pasture,  thereto  adjoyning 
<fe  belonging,  and  all  outhouses,  yardcs,  wayes  &  easements 
thereunto  belonging,  And  all  my  land  in  the  Forte  Field 
in  Boston-neckc,  and  all  my  right  in  Spectacle  Island,2  and 
my  ffanne  house  at  Mount  Wollaston  and  all  outhouses, 
barncs,  stables,  yards,  gardens  and  orchards  thereto  belong 
ing,  as  well  on  the  one  syde  as  on  the  other  of  Mount  Wollas 
ton  river  there  and  two  acres  of  ground  be  it  more  or  lesse 
allrcady  marked  out  neare  adjoyning  to  the  barne  on  the 


Chosen  assistant,  in  1630,  in  England. 
He  was  Treasurer  of  the  Colony  from 
1633  to  1636,  and  was  then  left  out  of 
ofliee  on  account  of  his  religions  opin 
ions,  and  early  in  1638  went  to  Rhode 
Island,  where  he  was  first  made  judge 
of  the  settlement  at  Portsmouth  ;  but 
shortly  being  driven  thence  with  his 
supporters  by  some  faction,  he  removed 
with  them  and  settled  at  Newport. 
The  people  at  Portsmouth  desiring  to 
unite  again,  Coddington  was  chosen  the 
first  governor  of  the  Colony  in  1640. 
He  was  again  chosen  in  1678,  and  died 
in  the  same  year.  Articles  upon  him 
are  printed  in  the  Hist.  &  Gcncal.  Reg. 
for  January,  1874,  p.  13,  and  for  April, 
1882,  p.  138. 

As  for  this  land  at  Mount  Wollaston, 
the  reader  may  gain  some  additional 
knowledge  thereon  by  comparing  this 
deed  with  a  purchase  made  by  William 
Tyng,  of  the  Hutchinsons,  who  owned 
land  just  beyond  "  Mr.  Coddington'a 
farm  and  Mr.  Wilson's  "  (Boston  Town 


Records,  i.  7),  note  of  which  may  be 
found  pp.  212,  214,  post,  as  well  as  by 
referring  to  the  Records,  as  above.  The 
bounds  are  so  vague  that  it  is  hardly 
possible  to  place  the  lots  with  any  ac 
curacy;  but  a  general  idea  of  their  posi 
tion  may  be  obtained.  The  land  here 
spoken  of  as  belonging  to  Judith  Quin- 
sey  is,  in  the  references  made,  called 
land  of  Edward  [Edmund]  Quinsey, 
her  husband. 

1  William  Tyng  was  a  prominent 
Boston  merchant.  He  arrived  in  New 
England  about  a  week  after  Lech  ford, 
in  his  own  ship.  He  became  one  of 
the  first  men  of  the  town,  frequently 
its  representative  in  the  General  Court. 
In  his  later  days  he  moved  to  Braintree, 
wherein  may  be  seen,  throughout  the 
Note-book,  ho  had  many  dealings  in 
lands.  He  died  Jan.  IS,  1652. 

-  What  follows  in  the  draught  is 
crossed  out,  with  the  direction  "  vcrte 
fol."  and  re-written  on  the  fourth  page 
following,  from  which  I  copy.  [T.] 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  63 

south  syde  of  tlic  said  river,  and  all  my  land,  meadow,  pasture 
and  wooddy  ground  conteyning  five  hundred  acres  be  it  more 
or  lesse  lying  at  Mount  Wollastou  aforesaid  in  two  parcells, 
the  one  greater,  bounding  on  the  common  sewer  there  towards 
the  north  and  north  cast,  on  Mount  Wollaston  River  aforesaid 
towards  the  south  and  on  a  parcell  of  land  belonging  to  Judith 
Quinsey  towards  the  northwest,  the  lesser  parcell  thereof 
bounding  on  the  common  sewer  aforesaid  towards  the  north 
east,  on  the  other  syde  of  the  said  land  belonging  to  the  said 
Judith  Quinsey  towards  the  south  east,  and  on  the  lands  of 
John  Wilson,1  pastor  of  the  Church  of  Boston,  towards  the 
northwest,  And  also  a  parcell  of  land  wooddy  ground  and 
pasture  conteyning  thirty  acres  be  it  more  or  lesse  lying  on 
the  south  syde  of  the  said  river,  bounding  on  the  proper  allot 
ment  of  Samuel  Wilbore 2  towards  the  south  and  on  another 
parcell  of  land  belonging  to  the  said  Judith  Quinsey  towards 
the  west,  And  all  wayes,  easements,  proffits  and  commodities 
thereto  belonging  wtb  the  appurtenances,  To  have  and  to  hold 
all  the  said  houses,  lands  and  Tenements  and  all  and  singu- 
lare  the  premises  wth  the  appurtences  unto  the  said  William 
Tynge  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever.  In  witncssc  whereof, 
I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  scale,  the  nyneth  day  of 
Aprill,  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne 
Lord  Charles  King  of  England  <fcc.  Annocf  Dili  1639,  in  prncia 
nrii.  Johis  Oliver,  Georgii  Gardiner  &  mei. 

1.  A  bond  for  the  payment  of  5001  to  Mr  Coddington. 

Me  Willin  Tynge  de  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  mcrcatorem 
tener'  &  firmiter  obligar'  Willo  Coddington  gen'  in  Mille  libris 
etc.  Condiconed  to  pay  5001  at  M?  Tynge's  house  in  Boston, 
1°  Maij,  1639. 

2.  Me  WilliTi  Tynge,  de  Boston  in  N.  A.  mercatorcm,  tener' 
&c.  Willo  Coddington  geiT  in  4001,  condicon'  ad  sol  vend'  2001 

1  John    Wilson.       This    land    was          2  Samuel  Wilbore  was  also  one  of  the 

granted  him  in  1H34,  or  perhaps  before,  settlers  of  Rhode  Island  (see    Savage). 

See  Boston  Toicn  Records,  pp.  2,  4,  6,  9,  lie  married  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Lech- 

where  is  much  mention  of  his  lands  at  ford  (Hist.  &  Gencal.  licg.,  1876,  xxx. 

Mount  "\VoUaston.  202). 


64  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

loco  Deo  1°  Maij,  1640,  si  non  sit  Dies  Dominicus,  sin  sit, 
tune  Die  pp.  sequen'. 

3.  Me  Williii  Tynge  de  Boston  in  N.  A.  M.  ten'  eidem  in 
400h  Condicon'  ad  solvend'  200*  loco  Deo  1°  die  Maij,  1641,  si 
non  &c. 

4.  Me  eundem  ten'  eidem  in  4001  <fcc.  ad  solvend'  2001  1° 
Maij,  1642,  ut  supra. 

5.  Me  eundem  ten'  eid'  in  4001  ad  solv'  2001  1°  Maij,  1643, 
ut  supra. 

[This  entry,  from  1  to  5,  seems  to  be  crossed  out.~\ 

This  Indenture  made  the  tenth  day  of  Aprill  in  the  ffif- 
tecnth  ycarc  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles 
King  of  England  &c.  Annocp'  Dni  1639,  Betweene  William 
Tynge  of  Boston  in  New  E.  merchant,  of  the  one  partc,  and 
William  Coddington  of  Aquednecke  in  New  England,  gent,  of 
the  other  parte  witnesseth  that  the  said  William  Tynge  for 
and  in  consideration  of  the  summe  of  eight  hundred  pounds 
[38]  of  lawfull  money  of  England  wch  he  oweth  unto  the  said 
William  Coddington  Doth  by  these  presents  mortgage  and 
grant  unto  the  said  William  Coddington  all  those  lands  tene 
ments  &  hereditaments  at  Mount  Wollaston  in  New  England 
wch  he  the  said  William  Tynge  lately  purchased  of  the 
said  William  Coddington  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  lands 
&  Tenements  and  all  and  singulare  the  prmiscs  wth  the  ap 
purtenances  unto  the  said  William  Coddington  his  hcires  and 
assignes  for  ever.  Provided  allwayes  that  if  the  said  William 
Tynge  his  hcires  executors  admors  or  assignes  shall  pay  or 
cause  to  be  payd  unto  the  said  William  Coddington  his  exe 
cute  ad :  or  assignes  or  to  his  ctaine  Atturney  the  summe  of 
eight  hundred  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  at  or  in 
the  now  dwelling  house  of  the  said  William  Tynge  situate  in 
Boston  aforesaid  in  manner  and  forme  following  that  is  to  say 
two  hundred  pounds  thereof  on  the  first  day  of  May  wch  shall 
be  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1640.  two  hundred  pounds  more 
thereof  on  the  first  Day  of  May  wch  shall  be  in  the  yeare  of 
our  Lord  1641.  two  hundred  pounds  more  thereof  on  the 
first  Day  of  May  wch  shall  be  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1642. 


LECH  FORD'S   ^f  A  Xir  SCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  fr~> 

and  two  hundred  pounds  the  residue  thereof  on  the  first  d;iy 
of  May  wch  shall  he  in  tlie  yeare  of  our  Lord  104'>.  (Saving 
that  if  any  of  the  said  Daves  of  payment  shall  fall  out  to  he 
upon  the  Lords  Day  then  the  payment  to  he  made  the  next 
day  after  respectively)  Then  this  mortgage  &  grant  shall 
he  voyd  and  of  none  effect  or  els  it  shall  stand  in  full  force  & 
vertue.  Provided  also  that  the  said  William  Coddington  his 
hcires  executors  administrators  or  assigncs  shall  not  enter 
upon  the  premises  to  enjoy  the  same  (excepting  on  some  partc 
thereof  for  this  next  winter  as  is  expressed  in  certainc  arti 
cles  of  agreement  indented  made  hetwecne  the  said  partyes 
hearing  date  the  Day  before  the  Date  of  these  presents)  un- 
lesse  the  said  William  Tyngc  his  heires  executors  admdrs  or 
assigncs  shall  make  Default  in  payment  of  the  said  summes 
of  money  or  one  of  them  And  lastly  it  is  concluded  and 
agreed  betweene  the  partyes  to  these  presents  that  the  said 
Wm  Coddington  his  executors  admrs  or  assigncs  or  his  cer 
taine  Attorney  receiving  the  said  summes  of  money  shall 
upon  the  said  severall  payments  made  give  a  sufiicient  Dis 
charge  in  writing  unto  the  said  Willm  Tyngc  his  heires  exe 
cutors  admrs  <fe  assignes  for  so  much  money  as  lie  or  they 
shall  pay  and  that  upon  the  last  payment  above  mentioned 
this  present  mortgage  shall  ho  delivered  up  to  the  said  Wm 
Tyngc  his  heires  or  assignes  to  he  cancelled.  In  witnesse  <fcc. 
[All  these  writings  15s.] 

[39]  Articles  of  agreement  indented  made  the  nynetli  Day  of 
Aprill  Anno  Dm  1G39,  betweene  WILLIAM  TYNGE  of  Boston 
in  New  England,  merchant,  of  the  one  parte,  and  WILLIAM 
CODDINGTON,  of  Aquednecke  in  New  England,  gent,  of  the 
oilier  partc. 

Whereas  the  said  William  Coddington  hath  sold  unto  the 
said  William  Tyngc  his  farmehouso  <fe  outhouses  and  cer 
taine  lands  at  Mount  Wollaston  in  New  England,  among  other 
things  It  was  and  is  originally  and  now  agreed  bctwccne  the 
said  partyes  in  manner  and  forme  following : 

Imprimis,  that  the  said  William  Coddington  shall  have 

5 


C6  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

liberty  and  free  ingrcssc,  crgresse  &  rcgrcsse  to  and  for  him 
<fc  his  servants  to  cut,  reape  and  thresh  all  his  conic  now  upon 
the  said  lands  sowen  or  planted. 

Item,  that  the  said  William  Coddington  shall  have  lib 
erty,  this  spring,  to  sowe  and  plant  all  the  land  that  hath  bin 
there  by  him  broken  up  (except  thirty  acres,)  and  to  reape 
and  in  the  conic  thereof. 

Item,  that  the  said  William  Coddington  shall  have  barne 
roomc  for  his  corne  there  planted  or  sowen  or  to  be  sowen  or 
planted  this  yearc,  &  liberty  therein  to  thresh  the  same  and 
chamber  roomc  to  put  it  in  when  it  shall  be  threshed. 

Itm,  Tliat  the  said  William  Coddington  shall  have  one  of 
the  cellers  for  milkc,  and  house  roomc  for  his  servants  and 
house  roome  for  thirty  head  of  cattcll  and  roomc  to  fodder 
them  in,  until  the  end  of  the  next  winter,  and  liberty  during 
one  yearc  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  for  'to  remove  and 
fetch  away,  or  cause  to  be  fetched  away,  at  seasonable  times, 
all  his  cutt  wood,  timber  and  trees  now  felled  on  the  said 
lands,  and  all  his  moveablc  goods  whatsoever  that  now  are 
or  at  the  end  of  the  said  tcrme  shall  be,  upon  or  in  the 
premises,  except  the  Dungc  that  shall  be  made  thereupon. 

Item,  Whereas  the  said  William  Coddington  hath  granted 
unto  the  said  William  Tynge  twenty  acres  of  land  on  the 
other  side  of  Mount  Wollaston  river,  over  and  above  [40]  the 
five  hundred  acres  on  this  sydc  the  said  river,  next  the  said 
farme  house  and  the  lands  of  M^  John  Wilson,  pastor  of  the 
Church  of  Boston,  as  by  the  said  grant  bargainc  £.  sale  in 
writing  appcarcth,  the  said  William  Coddington  shall  lay 
forth  and  assignc  the  said  twenty  acres  of  good  ground  con 
veniently  for  the  use  of  the  said  William  Tynge.  In  witnesse 

&C.1 

Itm,  that  the  said  William  Coddington,  his  hcires  executors 
admrs  and  assigncs  shall  have  and  enjoy  the  wood  and  tim 
ber  trees  growing  on  the  soyle  of  thirtcenc  acres  parte  of  the 
parccll  of  land,  wooddy  ground  or  pasture,  conteyning  thirty 

1  Tho  last  paragraph  is  crossed  out.  lineations  and  cancellings ;  so  that  it  is 
This  was  evidently  the  first  draught  of  not  possible  to  decide,  in  every  instance, 
the  agreement,  and  has  numerous  inter-  what  was  the  final  reading.  [T.] 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  67 

acres  be  it  more  or  lesse  lying  on  the  south  sydc  of  Mount 
Wollaston  River,  and  shall  have  liberty  from  time  to  time  at 
seasonable  and  fitt  times  to  cut,  fell  and  carry  away  the  sayd 
wood  and  timber  trees,  and  shall  have  free  ingressc,  egresse 
&  regrcssc  for  him  and  them  &  his  servants  and  theirs  to 
that  end,  the  said  thirteene  acres  to  be  measured  wth  equall 
distance  as  neare  as  conveniently  may  be  from  the  swampe 
there. 

[41]  I  Sergeant  Collacot l  of  Dorchester  in  N.  E.  doe  owe 
&c.  to  Willm  Coddington  gent.  1231  5*  9*  ,  1°  Maij,  1689. 
Dat'  12  April  1639,  in  prncia  Georgii  Gardiner  &  mei.  [Gd.~\ 

Recd  of  M*  Keaync2  for  a  silver  laced  coate  and  a  gold 

wrought  cap.     [2*    10s.] 

Recd  of  my  Lady  Moody  3  22.  2.  1639.     [11   11s.] 

I  borrowed  6*  of  M.  Story,  whereof  I  payd  him  41;  27"  2i 

[Crossed  out.]      [21    0.] 

[42]  Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  1  John  Throck- 
morton4  of  New  Providence,  gent.,  for  and  in  Consideration 
of  the  summe  of  ffifty  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England 

1  Richard  Collacot  was  a  prominent          8  Deborah,  Lady  Moody,  most  prob- 
man  in  Dorchester,  of  whom  the  reader  ably,  who  removed  from  Lynn  to  Long 
will  find  frequent  mention  in  the  latter  Island  about  1(543.     "Winthrop's  earliest 
pages  of  the  Note-book.     He  had  been  a  mention    of    her,    as    "  a   wise  and  an- 
sergeantin  the  Pequot  Avar,  just  finished,  ciently  religious  woman,"  is  under  date 
and  held  also  at  various  times  the  offices  of  June,    1643  (vol.    ii.    p.    123).     The 
of  selectman  and  of  representative.  Colony   had   granted   her,    three    years 

2  Mr.    Robert  Keayne  was  a  public-  before,    four    hundred    acres     of    land 
spirited  and  prominent  merchant  at  this  (J/a.s.s.  Records,  i.  290).      [T.] 

time.     His  house  and  garden  were,  on  4  John  Throckmorton,  already  men- 

the  south  side  of  the  market-place,  where  tioned  (p.  1),  was  excomrftunicated  from 

the  Old  State  House    afterwards    stood  the  church  at  Salem  when  Hugh  Peters 

(Book  of  Possessions,  p.    102).     He  was  was  minister  there,  and  wenjt  to  Provi- 

oneof  the  charter  members  of  the  Ancient  dence  with   Roger  Williams,  where  he 

and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  and,  lived  until  his   death.      His   daughter 

indeed,  is  usually  spoken  of  as  Captain  married   John    Coggeshall,  one   of    the 

Robert  Keayne.     His  name  constantly  settlers     on     Aquidneck,    who     moved 

occurs  in  the  Colonial  and  Boston  Town  thither  after  the   Hutchinson  persecu- 

Records,  as  well  as  in  the  Note-book.  tion. 


68  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

to  me  in  hand  payd  by  Richard  Parker  of  Boston  in  New 
England,  merchant,  whereof  and  wherewith  I  acknowledge 
my  selfe  satisfied  and  payd,  and  thereof  and  of  every  parte 
thereof  Doe  acquit  release  and  discharge  the  said  Richard 
Parker  his  heirs  executors  and  administrators  by  these  pres 
ents,  Doe  hereby  grant,  bargaine  and  sell  unto  the  said  Richard 
Parker  the  One  moiety  or  halfendealc  of  all  that  Island  here 
tofore  called  by  the  Indians  Chibatchuwese,  now  called  Pru 
dence,1  lately  purchased  of  Canonicus  and  Miantinomie,  Clieife 
Sachems  of  the  Narrigansctts,  wth  all  and  singulare  the  appur 
tenances,  writings  and  escripts  thereunto  belonging,  To  have 
and  to  hold  the  said  moiety  and  halfcndeale  of  the  said  Island 
and  all  and  singular  the  premises  wth  the  apurtenances  what 
soever  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker  his  heires  and  assigns 
for  ever.  In  witnessc  «tc.  [2s.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  2  Day  of  the  3d  month,  1639, 
bctweene  John  Winthrop  Esqr.  Governor  of  the  Massachu- 
sets  bay  in  New  England,  and  Richard  Parker2  of  Boston  in 
New  England  merchant,  of  the  one  parte,  and  John  Throek- 
morton  gent,  of  the  other  parte,  Witnesseth,  that  the  said 
John  Winthrop  and  Richard  Parker  for  divers  good  causes 
and  considerations  them  thereunto  moving,  Doe  by  these 
presents  demise,  grant  &  to  fannc  lett  unto  the  said  John 

1  Chibatchuwese,    or    Prudence    Isl-  (Boston    Town  Records,  i.  42,  48).      He 
and,    was   purchased   of   Cunonicus    by  was   a   prominent   merchant   for  many 
Roger  Williams,  jointly  with  Governor  years  ;   first  selectman  in  1651. 
Winthrop,    in  November,    16.37.      Mr.          By   the   indentures   immediately   fol- 
Williams  hud  sold  his  half  of  the  isl-  lowing    it    appears    that    Mr.    Parker, 
and.     Governor  Winthrop  retained  his  having   purchased  Mr.    Throckmorton's 
interest,   which   he    l«:ft  by  will  to  his  half    of  Prudence   Island,   joined  with 
son  Stephen  (ll'inth.,  ii.  2,  app.  i.)-  Governor  Winthrop   in   a   lease  of  the 

2  Richard  and  Nicholas  Parker,  who  whole  island  to  Mr.  Throckmorton  for 
were     probably     brothers,     sold     their  three  years  and  a  half;  that   at  about 
house   and  land   in    Roxbnry  in  July,  the     same    time     he    purchased    "the 
1639  (see  p.  76,  /*>«/),  having  for  some  wharf,  crane,  and  warehouses  in  Boston," 
time    previously     resided     in     Boston,  and  conveyed  one  half  of  the  same  to 
Richard    was    admitted   an   inhabitant  Mr.  Edward  Bendall,  who  had  been  one 
of  Boston,  Sept.  30,  1639  ;  and  in  Fcb-  of  the  former  proprietors,  and  by  whose 
ruary,    1640,  had  a  grant  of  four  hun-  name   the   wharf   was   lor   many  years 
dred  acres  "at  the  Mouiit  "   Wollustou  afterwards  called.     [T.] 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  C»9 

Throckmorton,  All  that  their  Island  called  Prudence,  wth  the 
appurtenances  To  have  and  to  hold  said  Island  wth  the  appur 
tenances  unto  the  said  John  Throckmorton  his  executors, 
administrators  and  assigncs,  from  henceforth  forth  untill 
the  first  Day  of  November  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof,  and 
after  for  and  during  the  space  of  three  yearcs  from  the  last 
Day  of  October  next  ensuing  the  Date  hereof  fully  to  be  com- 
pleate  and  ended,  yeelding  and  paying  therefore  yeurely  unto 
the  said  John  Winthrop  and  Richard  Parker  their  hcires  and 
assigncs  the  full  summe  of  forty  pounds  by  the  ycare  at  one 
entire  payment  upon  the  last  clay  of  October  in  every  of 
the  said  three  yeares.  And  it  is  covenanted,  concluded  and 
agreed  by  and  betweene  the  parties  to  these  presents  that  the 
said  John  Winthrop  and  Richard  Parker  shall  presently  deliver 
unto  the  said  John  Throckmorton  the  summc  of  forty  pounds 
to  stock  the  said  Island  wth  swine,  these  to  remaine  during 
both  the  said  tonnes,  [43]  and  in  the  end  thereof  the  said 
John  Throckmorton  shall  yeild  up  the  said  Island  wth  the 
appurtenances  unto  the  said  John  Winthrop  <fc  Richard 
Parker,  their  heires  and  assigncs,  fully  stocked  wth  forty 
pounds  worth  of  swine.  And  if  the  said  John  Throckmor 
ton,  his  executors,  adm™  or  asss  shall  build  upon  and  im 
prove  the  ground  of  the  said  Island,  as  it  shall  be  lawfull 
for  them  to  doe,  then  in  the  end  of  the  said  terme  of 
three  yeares  he  or  they  shall  be  reasonably  satisfyed  for 
the  same  by  the  said  John  Winthrop  and  Richard  Parker, 
their  heires  or  assignes.  Provided  allwaycs  that  the  said 
John  Throckmorton  his  executors  administrators  and  as 
signcs  shall  not  Doe  any  wast  upon  the  premises  and  shall 
Duely  pay  the  rent  aforesaid  at  Boston  aforementioned.  In 
witncssc  etc.  [5$-] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall 
come  We  Thomas  Lcverit  one  of  the  Elders  of  the  Church  of 
Uoston  in  New  England,  William  Ilutchinson  gent.,  John 
Cogan  merchant,  John  Coggeshall,  John  Newgate,  James 
Pennc,  Edward  Ilutchinson,  Thomas  Savage,  Edward  Bcndall 
mrcht.,  [William]  Dyer,  Thomas  OrifTeii,  [Richard]  Tuthill, 


70  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[Thomas  ?]  Flint,  and  [Mary  ?]  Hudson,1  widdow  [of  Ralph  ?] 
send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting,  Knowe  yee,  that 
we  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  summe  of  One  hundred  and 
seventy  pounds  of  lawful  1  money  of  England  to  us  in  hand  payd 
before  the  sealing  and  delivery  of  these  p'sents,  by  Richard 
Parker  of  Boston,  aforesaid,  Merchant,  whereof  and  where 
with  we  acknowledge  ourselves  satisfied  and  payd  and  thereof 
and  of  every  parte  and  parcell  thereof  Doe  remise  release 
and  discharge  the  said  Richard  Parker  his  heires  executors 
administrators  and  assignes  by  these  presents,  Have  granted, 
bargained  and  sold,  and  by  these  presents  Doe  graunt, 
bargaine  and  sell  unto  the  said  Richard  [44]  Parker  all 
that  our  wharfe,  Crane  and  warehouses  lying  in  Boston2 
aforesaid,  wth  all  Customes,  rights,  privileges  and  appurten 
ances  whatsoever  thereunto  belonging  and  all  our  right,  title, 
interest  and  demaimd  of,  in  and  to  the  same  To  have  and  to 
hold,  receive,  perceive  and  take,  the  said  wharfe  Crane  and 
warehouse  and  all  and  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  appur 
tenances  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker  his  heires  and  assignes 
for  ever.  And  also  for  the  consideration  aforesaid  and  to 
wards  the  maintenance  of  the  premises,  we  Doe  hereby  grant 
unto  the  said  Richard  Parker  as  much  as  in  us  lyeth  one 
hundred  acres  of  land  lying  at  Mount  Wollaston3  parcell  of 

1  It  would  be  more  in  keeping  with  "where    Quincy    Market   now    is,"  ac- 
the  plan  of  this  annotation  to  describe  cording  to  Mr.   Drake  (History  of  Bos- 
each  one  of  these  persons  in  this  note,  ton,  p.  804).     November  31,  1649,  the 
as   being  the   first  appearance  of  their  selectmen  sold   the   reversion   of   "the 
names  in  the  Note-book.     But  this  seems  Dock  or  Cove,   Called  by  the  name  of 
impracticable  ;  and  as  almost  all  of  them  Bendall  Docke,"  and  the  Hats  belonging 
appear  later,   I   must  reserve  notice  of  to  it,  to  James  Everill,  who  had  previ- 
them  until  they  appear  separately.  ously  bought  land  fronting  on  the  dock 

2  "The  dock,  or  cove,  which  was  in  from  John  Shaw  (Boston  Town  Records, 
early  times  the  principal  seat  of  trade  i.  98  ;  Sit/.  Dcetlt,  i.  115  ;  Book  of  Pos- 
in   Boston,    was  long   called   by    [the]  sessions,  19).     [T.] 

name    [of    Edward     Bendall],    because  8  Jan.  21,  1638-39  (two  months  be- 

he    owned  part  of  the   upland  around  fore  the  date  of  this  conveyance),  the 

it,  and  had  a  warehouse   on  it.      It  has  town    had   granted  one  hundred  acres 

since  been  called  the  town  dock  ;  but  at  Mount  Wollaston  to  the  "  owners  of 

the  exact  boundaries,  north  and  south,  the  wharfe  and  crane,"  towards  keeping 

cannot  probably  be  explained"  (Savage,  them  in  ivpair  (Boston   Tuwn  Records, 

in  note    to    Wintii.,    ii.    72).      It   was  p.  37).     [T.J 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  71 

the  lands  belonging  to  the  said  Towne  of  Boston,  To  have  and 
to  hold  the  said  one  hundred  acres  unto  the  said  Richard 
Parker  his  heires  and  assignes  forever.  And  further  we 
grant  that  if  this  conveyance  shall  not  be  snflicient  to  settle 
the  said  one  hundred  acres  of  land  unto  and  upon  the  said 
Richard  Parker  his  heires  and  assignes  according  to  the  true 
meaning  hereof,  That  then  We  will  cause  and  procure  the 
Townesmen  of  Boston  to  settle  the  same  unto  and  upon  the 
said  Richard  Parker  his  heires  and  assignes,  in  such  manner 
&  by  such  conveyance  as  the  said  Richard  Parker  or  his 
Counsell  shall  reasonably  advise  or  require.  In  witnesse 
whereof  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  and  scales  the 
Twenty  fifth  Day  of  the  ffirst  moncth  Anno  Dili  One  thousand 
six  hundred  &  thirty  nync.  1030.  [3*.  4d.j 

Me  Richardum  Parker  De  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia,  Mcrca- 
torem,  toner'  &  firmiter  obligur'  Thome  Leverit  vni  prcsby- 
teror'  ccclesie  de  Boston  pred'  in  170*  Dat'  ut  supra. 

The  Condinon  &c.  to  pay  85i,  25.  4£.  1639,  at  Boston,  at 
M?  Leverits  house.  [Is.] 

This  indenture  made  the  Twenty  sixth  Day  of  the  flirst 
moncth,  In  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred 
and  thirty  nync,  1639,  Betweene  Richard  Parker  of  Boston 
iu  New  England,  merchant,  of  the  one  parte,  and  Edward 
Bendall  of  the  same,  merchant,  of  the  other  partc,  Wit- 
ncsseth,  that  the  said  Richard  Parker  for  and  in  consid 
eration  of  the  summc  of  seaventy  and  live  pounds  [45]  of 
lawful  money  of  England  to  him  in  hand  paid  by  the  said 
Edward  Bendall  wherof  <fc  wherwith  the  said  Richard  Parker 
doth  acknowledge  himself  satisfyed  &  payd  and  therof  and 
of  every  parte  thereof  Doth  acquite  release  and  Discharge 
the  said  Edward  Bendall  his  heires  executors  and  adminis 
trators  and  every  one  of  them  by  these  presents  Hath  granted, 
bargained  and  sold  and  by  these  presents  doth  grant,  bar- 
gaine  and  sell  unto  the  said  Edward  Bendall,  All  that  the 
one  moiety  and  halfendealc  of  the  wharfc,  Crane  and  ware 
house  lying  in  Boston  aforesaid  wth  the  moity  and  halfendealc 


72  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

of  all  customs,  rights,  privileges  and  appurtenances  whatso 
ever  thereunto  belonging,  To  have  and  to  hold  receive  per 
ceive  and  take  the  said  moiety  and  halfendeale  and  all  and 
singular  the  premises  hereby  mentioned  and  intended  to 
be  granted  wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said 
Edward  Bendall  his  heirs  and  assignes  forever.  In  witness 
etc.  [36-.  4J.] 

Me  Edrum  Bendall  De  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  mercatorem 
tener'  et  firmiter  obligar'  Ric°  Parker  mercatori,  in  751  Dat. 
ut  supra.  Condiconed  for  payment  of  37  10*  To  Richard 
Parker  24.  4.  p™.  [Is.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  flirst  Day  of  the  third  moucth  in 
the  year  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  six  hundred  and  thirty 
nine,  1639,  Between  Richard  Parker  of  Boston  in  New  Eng 
land,  merchant,  of  the  one  parte,  And  Echvard  Bendall 
of  the  same,  merchant,  of  the  other  parte,  Witnesseth  that 
the  said  Richard  Parker  for  divers  good  causes  and  consid 
erations  him  thereunto  moving,  Hath  demised,  granted  and 
to  farme  letten,  and  by  these  presents  Doth  Demise,  graunt 
and  to  farme  lett  unto  the  said  Edward  Bendall  All  that  the 
one  moity  and  halfendeale  of  all  the  wharfe,  Crane  and  ware 
houses  lying  in  Boston  aforesaid,  wth  the  moity  and  halfen 
deale  of  all  customs,  rights,  privileges  and  appurtenances 
whatsoever  thereunto  belonging,  To  have  and  to  hold  receive 
perceive  and  take  the  said  moiety  halfcndeal  and  all  and  sin 
gular  the  premises  hereby  mentioned  and  intended  to  be 
demised  wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said 
Edward  Bendall  his  executors  administrators  [46]  and  as 
signes  from  the  Day  of  the  Date  of  these  presents  for  and 
During  the  space  of  one  year  from  thenceforth  next  ensuing 
fully  to  be  compleate  and  ended.  Ycilding  and  paying  there 
fore  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker  his  heires  and  assignes  the 
full  and  whole  summe  of  twenty  pounds  at  two  scverall  pay 
ments,  viz*  upon  the  fiirst  Day  of  the  nyncth  moneth  of  this 
ycarc  and  upon  the  first  day  of  the  third  moneth  of  the  yeare 
next  ensuing  the  Date  hereof,  by  equall  portions  to  be  payd. 
And  the  said  Edward  Bendall  for  himselfe,  his  executors 


LEClirORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  73 

admrs  &  asss  doth  hereby  Covenant  wth  the  said  Richard 
Parker  liis  heires  &  asss  that  he  the  said  Edward  Ben- 
dall  att  his  and  their  costs  and  charges  well  &  suffi 
ciently  shall  and  will  repayre  mainteine  supply  &  uphold 
the  premises  hereby  Demised  wth  all  nddfull  &  necessary  rep 
arations  tacklings  &  materialls  as  often  as  need  shall  require 
During  the  said  terme  and  in  the  end  thereof  yeild  up  the 
same  soe  well  and  sufficiently  repay  red  maintayncd  sup- 
plyed  &  upheld  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker  his  heires 
or  assignes.  [3.  4.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  ffirst  day  of  the  third  moneth  in 
the  ycare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  thirty 
nyne,  1639,  Betwecno  Richard  Parker  of  Boston  in  New 
England,  merchant,  of  the  one  parte,  and  Edward  Bcndall  of 
the  same,  merchant,  of  the  other  parte,  Witnesscth  that  the 
said  Richard  Parker  for  and  in  divers  good  Considerations 
him  thereunto  moving  Hath  demised,  granted  and  to  farme 
letten,  and  by  these  presents  Doth  demise  grant  and  to  farme 
lett  unto  the  said  Edward  Bendall  the  one  moity  a'nd  halfen- 
deale  of  one  grcate  lighter  wth  its  tacklings  and  appurtenan 
ces  wth  the  moity  and  halfendeale  of  all  proffits,  commodities 
and  advantages  that  thereby  <fc  therewith  shall  be  gotten,  and 
also  the  moity  and  halfendeale  of  the  proffitts,  commodi 
ties  and  avantages  that  shall  be  gotten  by  one  one  servant 
called  Thomas  Hedger *  in  and  wrth  the  said  Lighter  to  be  iin- 
ployed,  To  have  and  to  hold  receive  perceive  and  take  the  said 
moiety es  and  halfendealcs  and  all  and  singular  the  premises 
with  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Edward  Bendall  his 
executors  administrators  and  assignes  from  [47]  the  Day  of 
the  Date  of  these  presents  for  and  during  the  space  of  one 
year  thenceforth  next  ensuing  fully  to  be  compleate  &  ended, 
yeilding  and  paying  therefore  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker 
his  heires  and  assignes  the  full  and  whole  sume  of  thirty 
pounds  at  two  severall  payments  viz*  upon  the  ffirst  Day  of 
the  nyneth  moneth  of  this  year  and  upon  the  first  Day  of  the 

1  A  Thomas  Hedger  was  afterwards  for  many  years  a  resident  of  Warwick, 
R.  I.  (Savage).  [T.] 


74  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

third  moneth  of  the  year  next  ensuing  the  Date  hereof  by 
equal  porcons  to  be  paid.  And  the  said  Edward  Bendall 
Both  hereby  for  himseli'e,  his  executors  administrators  and 
assigues  Covenant  with  the  said  Richard  Parker  his  heires 
and  assigncs  that  he  the  said  Edward  Bendall  his  executors 
administrators  and  assigncs  shall  and  will  at  his  and  their 
proper  costs  and  charges,  well  and  sufficiently  repaire,  maiii- 
tayne,  uphold  &  supply  the  said  Lighter  with  all  needful  and 
necessary  reparacons,  implements,  tacklings  and  materialls  as 
often  as  need  shall  require  during  the  said  terme  and  in  the 
end  of  the  said  terme  shall  surrender  &  yiclde  up  the  moiety 
&  halfendcale  of  the  said  Lighter  soe  well  and  sufficiently 
maintcayncd  repayred  upheld,  &  supplyed  as  the  same  is  at 
this  time  present  reasonable  wearing  excepted  and  if  the  said 
Lighter  shall  not  be  cast  away,  (wch  God  forbid)  unto  the 
said  Richard  Parker,  his  heires  or  assigncs.  In  witnesse,  <kc. 
[3.  4.] 

WORTHY  SIR  l :  I  heartily  pray  that  this  honest  young  man 
Henry  Grey,  may  find  all  lawful  favour  with  you.  His 
freinds  have  advised  him  to  make  a  journey  on  purpose  to 

1  The    following   letter  was  copied,  sister  of  his  brother  John's  wife.     Her 

or  drafted  in  shorthand,  on  page  47,  father  was   an  "old   acquaintance"  of 

but    subsequently    cancelled    by   lines  Lechford.     The   "honest  young  man" 

drawn  across.     Blanks  are  left  in  place  must  have  found  favor  with  Mr.  Frost, 

of  the  words  that  cannot  be  confidently  for  the  couple  were  married  not  many 

deciphered.     It   was   probably   written  months  after.     Sept.   18,  1640,    Henry 

to  Mr.  William  Frost,  one  of  the  early  Gray  and  his  wife  Lydia  conveyed  their 

planters  at  Uncowa    (Fairiield),     "be-  house  in    Boston   in  trust   to   Thomas 

yond    Connecticut."     John    Gray    (or  Lechford  (see  after,  p.  176)  ;  and  both 

Grey,  as  Lechford  uniformly  wrote  the  John  and   Henry  removed  to  Uncowa. 

name),    of    Boston,    1639,     an     older  Lechford,  in   Flainc    Dealing   (p.    43), 

brother  of   Henry,   had  married    Eli/a-  names  among  others  who  were  living  in 

beth  (widow  of  John  Watson),  a  daugh-  the  plantations  "beyond  Connecticut," 

ter  of  Mr.  Frost.     Henry  Gray,  "now  his    "old   acquaintance,  Master  Hoger 

of  Boston,  heretofore  citizen  and   mer-  Lmllow,     Master    Frost,     sometime    of 

chant    of    London,"    had   a    house-lot  Nottingham,  and  his  sons,  John  Grey 

granted    him    by    the   town,    Feb.    19,  and  Henry  Grey."     The  latter  became 

1637-38.      "The  maid  who  had  prom-  a  man  of  some  prominence  in  the  plan- 

ised  him,"  and  was  "fully  satisfied"  as  tation,  and  was  a  deputy  from  Fairiield 

to  his  estate  and  "all  other  things,"  to  the  General  Court  in  1656  and  1657. 

was  doubtless  Lydia  Frost,  the  younger  [T.] 


LECHFORD'S  MAXUSCIUPT  NOTE-BOOK.  75 

you,  about  your  satisfaction  (?)  in  the  particulars  of  his 
estate,  —  which  yet  the  maid  doth  not  stand  on,  1  am  in 
formed,  but  is  fully  satisfied  thereabout  and  all  other  things, 
and  her  affections  to  him  remain  [  ].  1  have  seen  a 

passage  in  his  father's  letter,  whereby  he  bestows  201  upon 
him  more  than  formerly,  in  respect  of  his  charge  of  building  ; 
yet  not  as  his  full  portion,  as  I  verily  believe.  His  brother 
also,  a  citizen  of  London,  hath  promised  to  stock  him  with 
1001  worth  of  commodities  from  time  to  time,  if  the  Lord 
kccpc  open  the  way,  and  he  is  to  have  half  the  profit,  which 
may  be  of  especial  advantage.  [  ]  will  show  you  by 

his  account  book  that  his  estate  is  above  501  for  the  pres 
ent,  which  is  as  much  as  her  sister  here  desired  and  more 
than  the  maid  herself  ever  stood  on.  The  maid  hath  prom 
ised  him,  and  he  her,  as  I  heare,  and  the  young  man  doubts 
whether  it  may  be  broken  off  ;  wherefore  if  you  rcmaine  un- 
satisfyed  thereabout,  whether  the  promise  be  good  or  not 
he  will  refer  [  ]  to  yourself  and  2  other  ministers 

meete  to  be  deciders,  when  you  come,  next  into  the  Bay.  For 
my  selfe,  I  [  ]  this  favour  of  you,  that  you  would  be 

pleased  to  seale  up  my  treatises  and  send  them  to  nice  by 
this  bearer,  for  1  am  forced  to  show  them  to  some  Elders  ; 
and  also  I  would  pray  you  to  send  me  my  letter  that  I  for 
merly  wrote  unto  you,  if  you  thinke  good,  for  sonic  reasons 
which  1  will  show  you  when,  please  God,  I  see  you  next; 
wherein  you  shall  do  me  a  great  favour.  With  my  best  re 
spects  to  yourself  and  your  beloved  yokefellow  in  the  Lord, 
wishing  you  all  [  ]  grace  and  prosperity  from  heaven, 

I  remain  yours  to  be  [  ]. 

THOMAS  LECHFORD. 
BOSTON,  11.  3. 


Peter  Palfrey  l  of  Salem  for  66*  13s.  4?  conveyed  to  George 
Richardson,  mariner,  200  acres  of  land,  meadow,  pasture 
and  wooddy  ground,  lying  at  the  end  of  Basse  River  in 

1  Peter  Palfrey  came  to  Salem,  it  is  first.  He  died  in  1663.  George  Eich- 
thought,  in  1629,  with  Roger  Conant.  ardson,  of  "Watertown,  may  be  found 
He  was  admitted  freeman  among  the  (with  a  small  family)  in  Bond. 


76  LECHFOIWS  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Salem  for  ever,  and  to  lay  out  &  sever  the  prmises.  Dat' 
13.  3.  1G30.  The  money  to  be  payd  by  bill,  upon  the  13  of  9 
next.  Coram  Hugh  Peters,  Will0  Hathorne,  &  me.  [Is.] 

[48]  Edmund  Batter l  of  Salem  for  50*  conveys  to 
George  Richardson,  mariner,  all  that  his  Dwelling  house  and 
garden  and  two  acres  of  land  more  or  lesse  thereunto  belong 
ing,  wth  the  appurtenccs,  lying  in  Salem,  for  ever.  And  is  to 
provide  &  deliver  500  pales  &  rayles  &  posts  answerable  for 
the  fcnccing  of  the  same  before  1.  2.  prx°.  Dat'  13.  3.  1G39. 
Coram  Gervasio  Garford,  Will0  Ilathorne,  Tho.  L.  [Is.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  fifteenth  Day  of  the  third  moncth 
Anno  Dm  1639,  Betweene  George  Richardson,  mariner,  and 
Michael  Gabilloe,  Frenchman,  of  the  one  parte,  and  Edmund 
James  2  of  Watcrtowne  in  New  England,  planter,  of  the  other 
partc,  Witnesseth  that  the  said  George  Richardson  for  the 
sunimc  of  eight  pounds  to  him  in  hand  payd  for  the  passage 
of  the  said  Michael,  by  the  said  Edmund  James,  doth  assigne 
and  put  over  the  said  Michael,  and  the  said  Michael  Doth  put 
himsclfe  a  servant  unto  the  said  Edmund  James,  him  his 
executors  administrators  and  assignes  truly  &  faithfully  to 
serve  from  the  day  of  the  Date  of  these  presents  for  and  Dur 
ing  the  space  of  seaven  yeares  thenceforth  next  ensuing  fully 
to  be  compleat  &  ended.  And  the  said  Edmund  James  shall 
finde  and  provide  to  &  for  his  said  servant  sufficient  &  reas 
onable  meate  drinkc  lodging  <fc  apparell  during  the  said 
terrne,  and  in  the  end  of  the  said  termo  shall  give  his  said 
servant  double  apparell  £  five  pounds  in  money.  Mei  et 
Alex :  Iluntridge.  [2s.] 

1  Edmund  Batter,    of  Salem,   was  a  marriage   (Aug.    11,    1610),    of   Rearm, 
maltster  from  Salisbury,  in  the  county  widow  of  one  Edmund  James,  of  Water- 
of  Wilts.  town.    Not  much  is  known  about  either 

2  Bond   notes    an    Edmund    James,  of  them,  however,  and  nothing  at  all 
proprietor,    (in    Watertown)    163-637,  of  Michael  Gabilloe,  as  might  be  sur- 
selectman  1638.       See  Savage   for  the  mi&ed. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  77 

To  the  rif/ht  worH  the  Governor,  Counwll  and  Assistants  of 
the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England, 
and  to  the  general  Court  there  assembled,  22°  3''  1039. 

The  linmble  petition  of  Samuel  Gough  in  behalfe  of  Tliomas 
Gough  !  of  London,  merchant,  his  fi'ather,  and  of  himselfe. 

[49]  Yor  Petitioner  humbly  praycth  you  the  Honorablc 
Governor  and  the  Court,  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  best-owe 
upon  his  said  ffather  and  himselfe  a  competent  parcell  of 
ground  as  well  for  yor  petitioners  present  imploymcnt  as  for 
his  ffathers  benefit,  if  it  shall  please  God  of  his  goodnesse  to 
bring  him  and  his  ffamily  into  these  parts  ;  wherein  yor  peti 
tioner  liopeth  and  doubteth  not  but  you  will  favourably  re 
spect  the  good  of  his  ffather  as  well  as  himselfe,  being  that 
his  said  ffather  is  better  knowne  unto  you  and  approved  then 
himselfe  is  as  yet;  and  yor  petitioner  hopeth  the  Lord  will  so 
guide  his  yor  petitioners  wayes  that  you  shall  not  have  cause 
to  repent  of  any  yor  goodnesse  &  bounty  unto  him  or  his  said 
ffather. 

Yor  petitioner  is  and  shall  be  ever  he  hopeth  a  Petitioner  to 
the  throne  of  grace  for  yor  prosperity  and  of  the  whole 
State.  [2.?.  Grf.j 

This  Indenture  made  the  Twenty  fourth  Day  of  the  third 
moncth  In  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  six  hundred 
and  thirty  nyne,  Betweene  Willm  Hudson2  of  Boston  in 

1  Thomas  Gofle,  a  merchant  of  Lon-  office  as  an  assistant,  Mr.  Simon  Brad- 

don,  had  been  interested  in  the  colony  street  being  elected  in  his  place  (Mass. 

at  New  Plymouth,  and  was  afterwards  a  Col.    Jlcc.,   vol.  *i.;    Mass.  Hist.   Coll., 

patentee  of  the  Massachusetts  Company,  iii.  48  ;   Savage,  in  IVinth.,  i.  8). 

by  whom   he  was  chosen  deputy-gov-  It  appears  from  this  petition  that  so 

ernor  in  1028  and  1629,  and  was  desig-  late  as  1639  he  had  not  entirely  aban- 

nated  by  the  Court,  in  November,  1G29,  doned    the   purpose    of    emigration   to 

with    Winthrop,    Saltonstall,    and    the  Massachusetts.      Was  his   son   Samuel 

other  principal  members  of  the   com-  already  a  resident  hero?    [T.] 

pany,    as  one  of  the   "undertakers  for  2  William  Hudson  at  this  time  had 

the  joint-stock."     He  did  not  accom-  not   been   recommended   to   the  Gene- 

pany  his    associates  to  New   England,  ral  Court  by  the  Town   of  Boston    to 

and  at  the  meeting  at   Southampton,  keep  an  ordinary.     He  was  allowed  by 

March  18,   1629-1630,  was  left  out  of  the  Court,  April  30,  1640;  and  there  are 


78  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

New  England,  Baker,  and  Henry  Mether  of  the  same,  of  the 
one  parte,  and  Thomas  Cornish  1  of  Boston  aforesaid,  In- 
holder,  of  the  other  parte,  Witnesseth  that  the  said  Williin 
Hudson  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  summe  of  tennc 
pounds  to  him  in  hand  payd  by  the  said  Thomas  Cornish 
before  the  sealing  &  delivery  hereof  doth  put  over  and  the 
said  Henry  Mother  doth  put  and  place  himselfe  servant  unto 
the  said  Thomas  Cornish  by  these  presents  wth  him  to  dwell 
and  serve  by  the  space  of  fowcr  yeares  from  the  Date  of  these 
prsents  fully  to  be  complcate  and  ended  During  all  wch  time 
the  said  Henry  his  said  master  shall  well  and  faithfully  serve 
his  commandos  lawfull  &  honest  he  shall  obey  and  doe  his 
said  masters  secrets  he  shall  keepe  his  goods  he  shall  not 
wast  nor  purloyne  from  his  said  service  he  shall  not  himselfe 
wthdraw  or  eloygne.  And  the  said  Thomas  Cornish  shall 
During  the  said  tyme  fynd  &  provide  for  his  said  servant  suffi 
cient  meate  drinke  lodging  <fc  apparcll.  In  witness  <tc. 
[Is.  GJ.] 

Be  it  known  unto  all  men  by  those  presents  that  I  Robert 
Fekc  2  of  Watertownc  in  New  England  gent  Doe  hereby  con- 
stititute  and  make  &  in  my  place  put  my  welbelovcd  ffrcind 
Robert  Harding  of  Boston  in  Now  England  Merchant  my  true 
and  lawfull  Atturncy  for  me  and  in  my  name  to  sue  arrest 


in  Lechfcml  one  or  two  mentions  of  his  to  the  General  Court,  and  in  1636  was 

house,   in  agreements   "to  be   paid  at  appointed   one   of    the    magistrates   to 

Wm.    Hudson's   house,"  which   I   sup-  keep  county  courts  at  Watertown. 
pose  to  refer  to  the  inn.     His  house,  as         Robert  Harding  came  in  the  lleet  with 

noted  in  the  Book  of  Possessions,  was  "\Vinthrop,  and  his  name  is  among  the 

on  the  south  side  of  State  Street,  close  to  early  signatures  of  the  church  covenant, 

the  water  (near  Kilhy  Street),  where  he  He  was  an  ensign  in  Captain  Underbill's 

had    a   wharf   running    out    over    the  company,  then  captain,  and  was  for  a 

marsh.  long   time   selectman    of   Boston.      He 

1  Cornell    or    Cornhill  ?      See    note  was  an  adherent  of  the   Hutchinsons, 
on  p.  31,  ante-.     [T.]  and  in  1639  removed  to  Rhode  Island, 

2  Robert    Feke,    of    "NVatertown,    is  where  he  was  an  assistant  in  1641.     In 
thought  to  have  coine  over  in  the  nYet  the  Xotc-book  later  (p.  183)  he  is  called 
with  Win  thro  p.     He  was  made  freeman  "Cap.    Robert  Harding,  of  Newport." 
May  18,  1631,  and  lieutenant  Septem-  In  1646  he  went  back  to  England,  and, 
ber,  1632  ;  he  was  several  times  deputy  I  suppose,  remained  there. 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  79 

and  implcadc  ITcnry  Flecte l  late  Captainc  of  the  I>arkc 
AVaricke  ffor  the  sumc  of  [50]  One  hundred  pounds  Currant 
money  of  England  wch  he  oweth  unto  me  to  be  payd  in  in 
good  merchantable  cornc  at  six  shillings  a  bushell  to  be  deliv 
ered  unto  me  at  Watertowne  in  New  England  (the  \vch  should 
have  ben  payd  and  Delivered  unto  me  there  upon  the  last  Day 
of  July  Anno  Dili  1632  as  by  one  bill  obligatory  under  the 
hand  and  sealc  of  the  said  Henry  Fleet  dated  the  twenty 
third  Day  of  March  Anno  Dili  1031  appeareth)  and  the  same 
Debts  and  dammages  for  the  Deteyning  thereof  to  recover  and 
receive  to  my  use  before  any  his  Majesties  Governor  or  Gov 
ernors  in  any  Cort  or  Corts  wheresoever  or  by  their  authority 
howsoever.  And  Whereas  heretofore  I  made  a  letter  of  At 
torney  unto  George  Ludlowe  gent  authorizing  him  to  receive 
and  recover  the  said  Debt  of  the  said  Henry  Flecte  for  me 
and  to  my  use  I  Doe  hereby  also  authorize  and  appoint  the 
said  Robert  Harding  my  now  Attorney  for  me  and  in  my 
name  to  call  and  bring  the  said  George  Ludlowe  to  account 
for  the  same  and  in  case  he  hath  received  the  said  Debt  or 
any  parte  thereof  the  said  Robert  Harding  to  receive  and 
recover  the  same  of  him  for  me  and  in  my  name  and  to  my 
use  before  any  his  Majesties  Governor  or  Governors  in  any 
Court  or  Corts  wheresoever  or  by  their  authority  howsoever 
And  further  I  authorize  and  appoint  my  said  Attorney  for 
me  &  in  my  name  to  doe  <fc  make  any  other  lawful  I  act  or 
thing  in  and  about  the  recovery  and  receiving  of  the  Debt  <fc 
Dammages  aforesaid  as  fully  and  effectually  as  if  I  my  selfe 

1  Henry  Fleet  sailed  from  England  rally   in    July,    1634,    allege   that,   l>y 

in  1631,  in  the  employ  of  George  Grif-  authority   of   Sir   John    Harvey,    Gov- 

fith  and  others,  proprietors  of  the  l>ark  ernor  of  Virginia,  Fleet  had  restrained 

"  Warwick,"  of  London,  on  a  voyage  to  the  vessel  and    profits,   to   their   great 

New  England  and    Virginia    for   trade  loss  (Colonial  Ptiprrs,  Hi.  21  ;  in  Sains- 

and     discovery.      Winthrop     mentions  bury's  Calendar,  i.  184  ;    Winih.,  i.  71, 

her  arrival   at   Nantasket,    March    14,  72). 

1631-1(532,    "having  been  at  Pascata-          George     Ludlow     probably    removed 

quack  and  at  Salem  to  sell  corn,  which  from  Massachusetts  to  Virginia  as  early 

she   brought  from  Virginia;"    April  9,  as  1031.     He  was  there,  at  any  rate,  in 

"the  bark,    with  Mr.   Maverick's  pin-  1639,    and   was    appointed   one   of   Sir 

nace,  went  out  towards  Virginia."    The  William   Berkeley's    Council    in    1650 

proprietors,  in  a  petition  to  the  Admi-  (Sainsbury's  Calendar,  i.  292,  340).  [T.] 


80  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

were  present,  Ratefying  and  allowing  whatsoever  my  said 
Attorney  shall  lawfully  Do  in  the  premises.  In  witnesse  &c. 
30.  Maij  1639. 

A  Coppy  of  the  bill  aforesaid  tcstyficd  before  John  Win- 
throp  Governor.  30  Maij  prd.  [Is.  8.] 

William  Cockcrell a  of  Ilingham  ffisherman,  pit.  William 
Cockcrham  of  the  same,  mariner,  deft,  in  a  mixt  accon.  4.  4. 
1639.  The  Plaintiffc  sheweth  &  complayneth  that  the  ffrce- 
mcn  of  Ilingham  aforesaid  did  in  or  about  the  sixth  moneth 
in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord,  1637,  by  their  ioynt  consent  and 
general!  vote  assigne  and  allot  out  unto  this  Pltiffe.  fower 
acres  of  ground  lying  at  a  place  called  Broadcovc  in  Ilingham 
aforesaid  next  adjoyning  to  the  hinds  of  the  Defendant  there 
towards  the  west,  to  have  and  to  enjoy  to  him  the  said  plaint- 
iffe  &  his  heires  for  ever.  The  plaintiffe  made  his  clayme  and 
entry  unto  and  upon  the  said  lands  in  or  about  the  sixth 
moneth  of  the  last  yeare,  1638,  and  this  yearc  in  the  first 
moneth,  and  since  hath  endevoured  to  plant  and  build  his 
dwelling  house  upon  the  said  lands,  but  the  said  Defendant 
knowing  hereof  hath  forbidden  [51]  and  hindred  the  Plain 
tiffe  both  in  building  and  planting  therupon  hithcrunto,  so 
that  he  must  buy  all  his  corne  and  garden  fruits  this  yeare 
for  himselfe  and  his  family  &  pay  for  houseroomc  els  where, 
and  is  otherwise  hindred  &  damnifyed  to  the  summe  of  twenty 
pounds  for  wch  as  well  as  for  the  said  lands  he  brings  his 
suit.  [Is.] 

* 

William  Sprague  of  Ilingham,  Planter,  plaintiff  &  Thomas 
Clap  of  the  same  Towne,  Planter,  defejidt.  4.  4.  1639,  in  an 
action  upon  the  case. 

The  plaiutiffe  complayneth  that  whereas  upon  the  twenty 
fifth- day  of  the  third  moneth  of  this  yeare,  1639,  he  was 
poss'd  of  one  good  milch  Cowe  of  the  age  of  twelve  yearcs, 
the  Defendant  had  also  another  Co\v  wch  was  wont  to  push 

1  Strangely  enough,  Cockercll  and  had  made  up  the  whole  business  out  of 
Cockerham  are  l>oth  known  characters ;  his  head.  Little  is  known  of  them, 
though  it  would  seem  as  if  Leehford  however. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  81 

and  goarc  cattle  and  thereof  the  defendant  had  notice  and 
warning,  but  the  Defendant  did  not  rcstraino  his  said  Cowe, 
soc  that  on  the  said  twenty  fifth  day  of  the  said  third 
moneth  last  past  the  defcndts  said  Cowc  did  goare  the  plain 
tiffs  said  cowe  so  that  her  gntts  and  bowclls  fell  out  and 
her  belly  being  thrust  through,  to  his  dammage  201,  wch  the 
Defendt.  hath  not  rendred  unto  the  pit.  although  he  hath  ben 
required  the  same,  and  therupon  the  pit.  brings  his  suit.1 
[la.] 

Thomas  Moulton  of  Charlestowne,  fisherman,  aged  about 
30  yeares  maketh  oath  that  one  Batman  dwelling  by  the  river 
of  Saco  on  or  about  the  last  day  of  the  first  moneth  Anno 
Dm.  1638,  did  place  his  daughter  Margery  Batman  servant 
unto  Henry  Lawrence  of  Charlestowne  ffisherman,  wtb  him  to 
Dwell  &  serve  for  the  space  of  five  yeares  from  that  time  to 
be  compleate  and  ended,  for  the  wch  service  the  said  Henry 
Lawrence  was  to  deliver  unto  the  said  Batman,  her  father,  one 
shc-goate  for  the  benefit  of  the  said  Margery,  at  Charles 
Towne  aforesaid,  and  therupon  the  said  Batman  the  ffather 
Did  deliver  the  said  Margery  to  the  said  Henry,  at  Sacoe  river 
aforesaid,  to  be  brought  to  Charlestowne  aforcsayd,  on  or 
about  the  last  day  of  the  first  moneth  aforesayd,  and  accord 
ingly  the  said  Henry  [52]  Lawrence  brought  the  said  Margery 
unto  his  house  at  Charlestowne  where  she  remayned  wth  him 
about  a  quarter  of  a  yeare  and  no  longer,  and  then  the  said 
Batman  the  ffather  came  to  Charlestowne  aforesaid  and  tooke 
his  said  daughter  from  the  said  Henry  Lawrence  againc,  why 
the  sayd  Depon't  Doth  not  knowc,  and  the  said  Batman  hath 
since  placed  his  said  daughter  wth  one  Elias  Parke  since 
dwelling  at  Kenccticot.  And  whereas  the  said  Henry  Law 
rence  Doubted  to  receive  and  carry  her  the  said  Marg.  away, 
for  fcarc  she  should  be  a  servant  to  some  body,  the  said  Bat 
man  bid  the  said  Henry  Lawrence  not  to  fearc,  for  that  he  the 
said  Batman  would  discharge  him  of  any  trouble  or  dammage 

1  From  a  later  entry  in  the  Note-  suit,  on  the  ground  of  Mr.  Sprague's 
book  (p.  113),  it  would  seem  as  if  there  fences  being  in  a  bad  state  of  repair; 
might  have  been  some  defence  in  this  but  such  matters  are  for  conjecture  only. 

6 


82 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


that  should  come  upon  him  for  carrying  the  said  Margery 
away,  if  it  should  cost  him  forty  pounds.  And  the  said  Henry 
Lawrence  did  provide  and  give  the  said  Margery  some 
cloathcs,  but  of  what  value  this  depont  knoweth  not.1  [Is.]  . 

4:4:  1639 

John  Lawrence  of  Charlcstowne,2  fisherman,  aged  about 
twenty  fourc  yearcs  makcth  oath  that  <£c.  againe  because  his 
said  {'father  would  not  give  him  the  said  Batman  41  in  money 
instead  of  the  said  shc-goate,  wch  was  contrary  to  the  first 
agreement,  and  <tc. 

Thomas  Ilett  of  Ilingham,  Cowper,  Pltiffe,  Thomas  Shave8 
late  of  the  same,  planter,  defend1.  In  an  accon  of  trespas 


1  This  and  the  following  depositions 
probably  relate  to  a  matter  noticed  in 
the  Colony  Records.  At  a  Quarter 
Court  at  Boston,  June  4,  1639,  "  Henry 
Laurence  was  for  the  prsent  discharged 
about  Capt.  Bonito  his  servant"  (Musx. 
Records,  i.  265).  With  a  mark  of 
contraction  over  the  final  o,  Captain 
Bonito  may  stand  for  Richard  Bony- 
thon,  or  Bonighton,  of  Saco,  and  a 
magistrate  there  in  1636;  and  it  may 
be  inferred  that  Margery  Batman  — 
brought  from  Saco  by  Henry  Lawrence 
in  1638  —  was  claimed  by  Captain  Bo 
ny  thon  as  his  servant  by  prior  inden 
ture  or  agreement. 

There  was  a  Stephen  Batson  at  Saco 
in  1636,  who  had  a  daughter  Margery  : 
he  removed  to  Cape  Porpus  in  1653 
(Folsom,  History  oj  Saco,  pp.  33,  124). 
Possibly  the  two  names  indicate  the 
same  man  ;  but  whether  Batman  or 
Batson  is  correct  I  have  no  means  of 
deciding.  More  may  be  found  of  Moul- 
tou  iu  another  connection,  punt,  p.  152. 

IT.] 

'2  John  Lawrence,  "of  Chariestown  " 
in  1639,  is  shown  to  be  the  son  of  Henry 
Lawrence  of  the  same  town.  There 
can  be  no  doubt  of  his  identity  with 


John  Lawrence  of  Watertown,  1636- 
1662,  afterwards  of  Gro  ton  ;  and  his  age 
at  the  time  of  deposing,  refers  his  birth 
to  the  yeai  1614  or  1615.  The  Lawrence 
Ceiiealogy  ( Bond's  Watertown,  pp.  1080- 
1081)  proves  John  Lawrence,  who  was 
"in  New  England"  July,  1639,  to  have 
been  a  son  of  Henry  Lawrence,  of  Wis- 
set,  Co.  Suffolk,  England,  "  supposed 
to  be  the  Henry  Lawrence  of  Charles- 
town,  as  early  as  1635,  who  died  between 
1638  and  1647."  But  the  same  genealogy 
shows  that  one  John,  son  of  Henry, 
was  baptized  at  Wisset,  Oct.  8,  1609, 
and  a  brother,  Robert,  baptized  Sept. 
16,  1612.  The  discrepancy  in  ages 
thus  indicated  may  be  reconciled  by 
supposing  the  John  whose  date  of  bap 
tism  is  given  in  the  genealogy  to  have 
died  young,  and  that  John  of  Water- 
town  was  a  second  son  of  the  same 
name,  two  or  three  years  younger  than 
his  brother  Robert,  who  remained  in 
England.  [T.] 

8  "Thomas  Shaw,  Ilingham,  1637, 
removed  before  1643  to  Barnstable.  .  .  . 
Some  have  written  the  name  Shave " 
(Savage}.  This  declaration  shows  that 
Shave  had  removed  from  Ilingham 
before  June  4,  1639  ;  probably  shortly 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  83 

upon  the  case,  4.  4.  1039.  The  Plaintiffe  complayneth  that 
whereas  a  certaine  parcel  of  meadow  or  marish  ground  con- 
teyningfive  acres  or  ncare  therabouts  lying  in  Hiugham  afore 
said,  was  heretofore  wrongfully  deteyned  by  the  townesmen  of 
tlie  said  Towne  from  the  Defend'  upon  conference  thcrof  had 
by  and  betweene  the  said  Plaintiffe  &  Defend1  on  or  about  the 
first  day  of  the  fifth  moncth  in  the  ycarc  1G37,  at  Ilingham 
aforesaid,  The  said  Defend*  did  promise  the  Plaintiffe  that  in 
consideration  he  would  help  the  defend1  in  obteyning  the  said 
lands  againe  into  his  possession  that  he  the  Defend*  would 
give  the  pl'tiffe  [53]  the  one  halfe  of  the  sayd  lands  to  have 
and  to  enjoy  to  him  and  his  hcires  for  ever.  And  the  pl'tiffe 
saiththat  indeed  he  did  help  the  Defend*  in  obteyning  the  said 
lands  againe  into  his  possession  &  he  hath  since  enjoyed  the 
same  and  taken  the  promts  thereof  above  the  space  of  one 
ycarc  last  past,  Notwthstanding  the  Defend1  not  regarding 
his  promise  aforesaid  but  intending  to  defraud  the  said  pltiffe 
of  the  one  halfc  of  the  said  lands  &  the  proflits  thereof,  hath 
refused  to  give  the  said  one  halfe  of  the  said  lands  to  the 
Pl'tiffe  but  hath  taken  the  proftitts  thcrof  wholly  to  himselfc 
Although  the  Pit.  Did  on  or  about  the  last  Day  of  the  fifth 
moncth  of  the  yearc  1638  last  past  require  the  Dcfendt.  to 
performe  his  said  promise  unto  him  this  Plaintiffe.  To  the 
Dammagc  of  the  Plaintiffe  10* ,  and  thereupon  he  brings 
this  suit.  [Is.  Jonathan  Bosworth  &  Benjamin  Bosworth 
witnesses  for  the  Pit.] 

THOMAS  HETT  of  Hingham,  Cowper,  pit.  )  jn  a  roa]  ac£on 
JOHN  TOSE  of  the  same,  planter,  Defendant  ]  4.  4.  1<>39. 

The  Pit.  shewcth  that  whereas  Thomas  Shave  late  of  Iling 
ham  aforesaid,  planter,  did  on  or  about  the  tenth  Day  of 
the  first  moneth,  Anno  Dni  1G37,  give  unto  the  Plaintiffe  the 
one  halfc  of  a  certaine  parcell  of  meadow  or  marish  ground 
contcyning  five  acres  or  neare  therabouts  lying  in  Hing 
ham  aforesaid,  Now  the  said  Defend*  claymeth  and  holdeth 

before  that  date,  as  the  word  "late"  was  interlined  before  "of  Hingham,"  after 
the  first  draft. 


84  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

possession  of  all  the  said  lands  and  rcfuscth  to  let  the  pltiffe. 
have  &  enjoy  the  said  one  halfc  of  the  said  lands  &  profiits 
thereof.  And  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  said  halfe  of  the  said 
lands  the  Plaintiffe  brings  his  suit.  [Is.  Witnesses  aforesd.] 

[54]  Jonathan  Bos  worth  l  of  Hingham,  taylor,  aged  about 
26  yearcs,  maketh  oath  that  Thomas  Shave  about  the  bcgin- 
inge  of  the  fifth  moneth  1637  upon  occasion  of  conference 
betwecne  him  &  this  Deponent  about  a  parcell  of  ground  in 
Ilingham  conteyning  about  5  acres  then  kept  from  him  told  this 
dcpoiit  that  he  had  promised  to  give  halfe  therof  to  Thomas 
Hctt  for  to  help  him  to  obteyne  the  possession  of  the  said 
ground  and  at  another  time  this  deponent  was  present  when 
the  said  Thomas  Het  and  Thomas  Shave  talked  together  of 
the  said  promise  wherof  this  deponent  remembreth  this  pas 
sage  that  Thomas  Hctt  asked  the  said  Thomas  Shave  whether 
he  would  be  as  good  as  his  word,  he  sayd  yes.  Then  sayd 
Thomas  Ilett  you  are  like  to  have  yor  ground  againe  but 
whon  you  have  it  againe  I  doubt  you  will  be  unwilling  to  let 
me  have  halfe  of  it  Noe  said  Thomas  Shave  you  shall  have  the 
one  halfe  if  ever  I  get  it  and  I  shall  be  glad  of  the  other  halfe. 


Benjamin  Bosworth  l  of  Hingham  planter  aged  about  24 
ycares  maketh  oath  that  Thomas  Shave  about  the  begin 
ning  of  the  fifth  moneth  1637  upon  occasion  of  conference 
betwecne  him  and  this  Dcpoiit  about  a  parcell  of  ground  in 
Ilingham  conteyning  about  5  acres  then  kept  from  him  the 
said  Thomas  told  this  Dcpoiit  that  he  had  promised  to  give 
Thomas  Hctt  halfe  therof  for  to  help  him  recover  the  same 
and  the  said  Thomas  Shave  said  further  that  when  he  did  get 
the  said  ground  Thomas  Hot  should  have  halfe  of  it  wth 
heart  tv  good  will  and  that  he  the  said  Thomas  Shave  should 
be  glad  of  the  rest  himselfe  &  prase  God  for  it.  [6(Z.] 

1  Benjamin,  Jonathan,  and  (as  I  in-  and    probably   sons    of    Edward,     who 

fcr  from  an  entry  on  a  subsequent  page,  died  on  his  passage  to  New  England, 

as  well  as  from  Mas*.  Col.  Jlcc.,  i.  152)  or  before  July,   1635. 
Nathaniel      Bosworth     were     brothers, 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  85 


[55]  To  the  Right  Wor11  the.  G-overnor,  Councill  and  Assist 
ants  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Massachusetts  bay  in  New 
England,  $•  to  the  generall  Court  there  assembled,  0.  4.  1039- 

The  humble  petition  of  Thomas  Cornell 1  of  Boston  In- 
keeper. 

Shcweth  that  whereas  in  the  winter  tymc  when  provisions 
were  Dcare  &  scarce  and  yor  petitioner  had  much  losse  by  his 
small  bcare  by  the  frost,  he  did  sell  some  stronger  bcerc  wch 
he  was  at  cost  to  preserve  from  the  frost  by  fire,  for  the  ne 
cessary  use  of  strangers,  unto  some  others,  for  2d.  a  quarte, 
and  did  since  draw  out  about  a  rundlct  of  sacke  in  his  house, 
not  knowing  any  law  to  the  contrary,  scing  Mr  Fortcscue 
told  him  that  he  had  liberty  to  Draw  by  the  gallon,  or  2  or  3 
gallons,  yor  petitioner  hoping  that  he  might  so  Doc  &  save 
himselfe  a  labour  of  sending  to  the  tavcrne.  But  seeing  yor 
petitioner  now  undcrstandcth  that  these  things  are  against 
the  lawcs,  he  is  very  sorry  for  his  offences  and  all  other  offen 
ces  that  have  been  taken  notice  of  by  the  Court,  beseeching 
you  to  consider  that  some  miscarriages  may  passe  in  such  an 
house  against  his  will  and  wthout  his  knowledge,  but  he  hath 
ben  hitherto  carefull  and  shall  hereafter  Godwilling  be  more 
carefull  to  keepc  a  good  conscience  in  the  said  place  if  you 
shall  please  to  continue  him  therein,  if  not  he  shalbe  ready 
to  leave  the  same  as  soone  as  he  can  get  a  chapman  for  his 
house,  for  that  he  hath  not  ben  heretofore  accustomed  to 

1  Thomas   Cornell,    or   Cornhill,    as  ing  entry  in  the  records  of  the  Quarter 

has    been    before    mentioned,    was   the  Court,  June   4,   1639,  shows  the  occa- 

successor    of    William    Balston   in    the  sion  of  this  petition.     "  Thomas  Corne- 

second    of   the    two  inns  or  ordinaries  hill  was  fined  £30  for  acverall  offences, 

licensed    in    Boston    before    1639     (see  selling  wine  wthout  license,   and  bearo 

note  on    p.    31,   ante).      With    consent  at   2d  a  quart.     Hoc  had  warning  the 

of  the   townsmen,    Aug.   20,    1638,   he  10th  4th  mo"   (Mass.  Col.  7?cc.,  i.  266). 

bought  Mr.  Balston's  house,  yards,  gar-  On  the  sixth  of  June  the  Court  abated 

den,   and  one  close   "on  the  backside  £10   of   his   fine   and   respited  the   re- 

of  Mr.  Coddington's,"  —  one  acre,  more  mainder  ;  but  provided  that  he  should 

or  less,  —  two  acres  in  the  Mill  Field,  "cease  from  keeping  intertainraent,  and 

three   at   Hog  Island,    and    eighty    at  the  town    to  provide  another"  (Ibid., 

Mount    Wollaston    (Town   Records,    i.  p.  260).      [T.] 
35  ;    Suff.    Deeds,  i.  26).      The   follow- 


86  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

such  a  housekeeping  and  these  are  his  first  offences  and  his 
first  warning. 

All  Wcli  Considered  yor  petitioner  humbly  praycth  the  Cort 
to  be  pleased  to  remit  his  ifine  lately  imposed  upon  him  by 
the  Court  of  Assistants  for  the  said  offences,  and  as  long  as 
he  continueth  in  the  said  housekeeping  he  promiseth  by  the 
help  of  God  to  be  carefull  not  to  offend  in  such  things  or  in 
any  other,  and  shall  as  his  duty  by  mis  him  pray  for  your 
long  life  &  prosperity  &  the  whole  State.  [2s.  6c?.] 

A  Coppy  of  a  Deed  betwecnc  Mathew  Allyn  of  Kenecticot, 
gent,  and  Margaret  his  wife,1  of  the  one  parte,  and  Thomas 
Allyn  of  Barnstablc  in  the  County  of  Devon,  yeoman,  of  the 
other  parte,  Dated  17.  10.  1038.  being  a  Conveyance  of  lands 
in  Devonshire  to  the  said  Thomas.  [3s.] 

Me  Mathew'  Allyn  De  Ilartforde  super  flumcn  dc  Kenecticot, 
in  America  gen.  tencr1  <tc.  Thome  Allyn  in  duobus  mille 
libris  &c.  Dat'  6.  3.  1G39. 

The  condition  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  above- 
bounden  Mathew  Allyn  and  Margaret  his  Avife,  and  their 
hcires,  shall  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter 
well  and  truly  observe  performc  &  keepe  all  such  grants 
Covenants  &  agreements  as  are  menconed  and  [56  ]  ex 
pressed  in  one  payre  of  Indentures  dated  the  seavcnteenth 
day  of  December  last  past  before  the  date  of  these  presents, 
made  betwccne  the  said  Mathew  Allyn  and  Margaret  his  wife 
of  the  one  partc  and  the  abovenamed  Thomas  Allyn  of  the 
other  parte  wch  on  the  parte  &  bchalfe  of  the  said  Mathew 
Allyn  and  Margaret  his  wife  and  their  hcires  are  to  be  ob 
served,  performed  and  kept,  And  if  the  said  Mathew  Allyn 
and  Margaret  his  wife  shall  Doe  and  execute  all  such  further 

1  Mathew   Allyn  was  at  Cambridge  and  1664.     The  lands  granted  to  Tho- 

in!6;l2.   Jlu  removed  to  1 1  art  ford,  where  mas  Allyn,  of  Harnstaple,  Devonshire, 

he  had  a  considerable  allotment  in  the  we. re  ]>robahly  the  same,  "in  Uowport 

fir.->t  division  of  lands,   but  soon  after  Street,"  which  Thomas  Allyn,  then  of 

settled  at  Windsor,     lie  was  an  assist-  Barnstable    in    New    England,    sold    in 

ant  from  1658  to  1607,   ami  a  comnu's-  1641  to  John  Hells,  of  Dorchester  (seo 

sioner  for  the  United  Colonies  in  1660  copy  of  the  conveyance,  post,  p.  227). 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  87 

assurances  as  by  the  said  Indentures  they  have  covenanted 
to  Doe  so  that  they  be  not  required  for  the  Doing  thereof  to 
travell  out  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  Kcnecticot  plantation  above- 
said  and  so  that  the  said  assurances  be  tcndrcd  unto  them 
wtbin  the  space  of  scavcn  ycares  next  ensuing  the  date  here 
of  then  this  obligation  shall  be  voyd  and  of  none  effect  or  els 
shall  remaine  &  be  in  full  power  strength  &  vertue.  [3s.] 

BOSTON  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  7°  Junii  1639. 

At  thirty  Days  after  sight  of  this  my  first  bill  of  exchange 
my  second  or  third  not  being  payd,  be  pleased  to  pay  unto  M.r 
Richard  Hutchinson  of  London,  Linnen  Draper,  Dwelling  at 
the  sign  of  the  Angell  and  Starre  in  Chcapsyde,  or  his  as- 
signes,  the  summe  of  one  hundred  pounds  of  Currant  money 
of  England,  for  so  much  received  here  of  Mf  John  Cogan  l  of 
Boston  in  New  England  merchant.  I  pray  make  good  pay 
ment  and  place  it  to  account  according  to  advice, 

for  me,  JAMES  FoRRETT.2 

To  the  right  Honble  the  Earle 
of  Starling  Secretary  for  the 
Kingdom  of  Scotland,  at  his 
house  iii'Goveut  Garden  in.  Midd.     [Is.  6t/.] 

[57]  A  Paper  of   Certain  Propositions 3  to   the  general    Cort 
made  upon  request  8.  4.  1639. 

1.  It  were  good  that  all  accons  betweene  partyes  were  en- 
trcd  in  the  Court  booke  by  the  Secretary  before  the  Courte 
sittes. 

1  John  Cogan.     See  note  on  p.  138,  inson,   the    ironmonger   in    Cheapside. 
post.  Forrett  returned   to    England   in  1641 

2  James  Forrett,  agent  of  William,  (see   JVinth.,  ii.  4,  5;  Conn.  Col.  Ilcc., 
Earl  of  Stirling,  for  his  patent  of  Long  ii.  93,  note). 

Island,     was    in    Boston    in    1639,    as  8  Though      these      propositions      of 

appears  by  this  bill,  drawn  on  his  em-  Lochford — looking  to  his  employment 

ploycr,  in  favor  of  Richard  Hutchin-  as  "publick  notary"  —  were  not  adopt- 

son,  brother  of  William,  of  Boston  and  ed,   they  may  have  led  to  the  passage 

Newport,  and  uncle  of  Richard  Hutch-  (at  the  next    session    of    the    General 


88  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

2.  That  every  accon  be  declared  in  writing  and  the    De- 
fendts  answer  general  or  speciall  as  the  case  shall  require  be 
put  in  writing  by  a  Public  Notary  before  the  cause  be  heard. 

3.  The  Secretary  to  take  the  verdits  &  make  forth  the  iudi- 
cial  commands  or  writts. 

4.  The  public  notary  to  Record  all  the  proceedings  in  a  faire 
bookc  and  to  enter  satisfaccons  acknowledged  and  executions 
or  commands  done. 

5.  The  frees  in  all  these  to  be  no  more  then  in  an  inferiour 
Court  of  Record  in  England   wch  fees  to  be  allowed  by  the 
generall  Court  or  Court  of  Assistants. 

The  benefit  hereof  to  the  publicke  good. 

1.  It  will  give  an  easy  and  quicke  dispatch  to  all  causes  for 
thereby  the  Court  and  Jury  will  quickly  see  the  .point  in  hand 
and  accordingly  give  their  verdict  &  judgmt. 

2.  The  Court  shall  the  better  knowc  constantly  how  to  judge 
the  same  things :  and  it  is  not  possible  that  Judges  from  time 
to  time  should  all  way  es  remember  clca;  ily  or  know  to  proceed 
certainly  wthout  a  faithfull  record. 

3.  The  partycs  may  hereby  more  surely  and  clearely  obteync 
their  right  for  through  ignorance  &  passion  men  may  quickly 
wrong  one  another  in  their  bare  words  without  a  record. 

4.  Hereby  shall  the  Law  of  God  and  justice  be  Duly  admin- 
istred  to  the  people  according  to  certaine  and  unchangeable 
rules  so  that  they  may  know  what  is  the  Law  and  what  right 
they  may  lookc  for  at  the  mouthes  of  all  their  Judges. 

5.  Hereby  the  subjects  have  a  greate  parte  of   their  evi 
dences  and  assurances  for  their  proprieties  both  of  lands  <fc 
goods. 

The  people  may  also  use  the  publicke  notary  in  Divers 
cases  to  the  ease  of  the  Magistrates  and  for  making  scverall 
writings  &c. 


-• 


Court),  in  September,    1639,   of  a  law  posterity,"  and  also  providing  for  the 

requiring     "that    henceforward    every  record  of  wills,  inventories,  etc.,  and  of 

judgment,    wto   all    the    evidence,    bee  lands   (Mass.    Col.   lice.,   i.    275,   276). 

recorded   in   a   booke,   to  bee   kept  to  [T.] 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  89 


[Bcloiv  is  the  following  note,  in  ciplier : — ] 

The  Court  was  willing  to  bestow  employment  upon  me, 
but  they  said  to  me  that  they  could  not  doe  it  for  fcare  of 
offending  the  Churches,  because  of  my  opinions.  Where 
upon  I  thought  good  to  propose  unto  them  as  followeth 
over  leaf : — 


[58]    Certaine  propositions  to  the  generall  Cort,  11.  4.  1G39. 

Whereas  I  have  delivered  that  prophesying  in  the  Church 
is  properly  &  therefore  ought  to  be  mainely  of  propheticall 
scriptures,  and  that  Apostles,  Evangelists  &  Prophets  ought 
to  be  continued  as  well  and  as  long  as  Pastors  <fc  Teach 
ers,  or  any  other  the  undoubted  officers  by  vcrtue  of  the  Insti 
tution,  Some  apostles^  some  prophets  £c.,  and  that  it  is  probable 
there  shall  come  yet  a  greater  Antichrist  then  ever  hath 
bin,  <tc. 

1.  I  Doe  not  refuse  Church  Communion  wth  any  that  hold 
the  contrary. 

2.  If   the  Elders  upon  perusall  of   my  bookcs  &  hearing 
me  will  give  their  censure  and  reasons  in  writing  or  otherwise 
against  the  maigne  propositions  in  my  bookes,  if  they  cannot 
satisfy  me  so  far  as  to  recant  yet  I  shall  be  content  to  be 
silent. 

3.  If   the  Elders   upon  perusall  of   my  bookes  &  hearing 
me  can  convince  me  of  error  in  the  maigne  propositions,  I 
shall  be  ready  to  retract,  yea,  to  burne  my  bookes. 

4.  If   the   State  &  the  Elders  thinke   that   the  matters  I 
trcatc  on  are  not  tanti l  or  that  they  are  just  occasion  of  Dis 
turbance,  I   shall   be   content   they   will    advise    of  them  12. 
moncths  or  more,  wth  silence  on  my  parte  During  that  space 
saving  to  the  Elders  and  cheife  men,  provided  that  I  may  have 
imploymcnt  to  subsist  among  you,  and  in  the  meanc  while  be 

1  The  manuscript  is  seemingly  plain  ;  but  this  word  tanti  is  curiously 
chosen.  [T.] 


90 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


admitted  to  the  privileges  of  God's  house ;  for  that  all  I  write 
may  be  held  or  not  held  salvafide,  as  I  conceive.  Wthall  Due 
submission  to  this  honoble  Cort. 

Yor  humble  suppliant 

THO  :  LECHFORD. 

\JTke  following  is  in  cipher,  except  the  first  four  words.~\ 

A  Draught  of  reasons  for  3  deputies  to  be  sent  from  each 
town  to  the  General  Court:  A  sheet  of  paper:  At  the  request 


of 


Bcllingham  1  :  19.  4.  1639. 


[0-0.] 


Coppy  of  a  bill  or  letter  of  Attorney  to  Mr  Rob1  Harding 
to  receive  41  15?  of  George  Ludlowe2  for  Richard  Callacott. 
Dated  19.  4. 1639.  8d. 


[Tlds  in  cipher.'] 

Received  of  Mr1  Glover 3  in  May  or  the  beginning  of  the 
month  of  June,  1G39.     [10*.] 


1  The  name  of  Bcllingham  is  writ 
ten  in  the  cipher — in  accordance  with 
its  popular  pronunciation  of  the  period  — 
as  BdHticjc  in  (with  ;/  .soft).  [T.] 

It  appears  from  this  entry  by  Lech- 
ford  that  Mr.  l>ellingham —  though 
himself  out;  of  the  assistants  —  was 
opposed  to  the  order  of  March,  1639, 
by  which  towns  were  prohibited  from 
sending  more  than  two  deputies,  and 
which  "occasioned  some  to  fear  that 
the  magistrates  intended  to  make  them 
selves  stronger  and  the  deputies  weak 
er,  and  so,  in  time,  to  bring  all  power 
into  the  hands  of  the  magistrates  ;  so 
as  the  people  in  some  towns  were  much 
displeased,"  etc.  (  Hri,Uh.t  i.  300).  [T.] 

Mr.  Bellingham  and  Mr.  Saltonstall, 
as  Governor  Winthrop  complains, 
"held  together,  and  joined  with  the 
deputies  against  the  rest  of  the  magis 


trates,"  in  "cases  where  any  difference 
was"  (jy-inth.,  ii.  186,  210).  Yet,  he 
concedes,  "these  gentlemen  were  such 
as  feared  God;"  and  "where  they 
went  aside  it  was  merely  for  want  of 
light,  or  their  eyes  were  held  through 
some  temptation  for  a  time,  that  they 
could  not  make  use  of  the  light  they 
had."  So  mild  a  judgment  on  of  Fenders 
who  "went  aside"  towards  democracy, 
and  perhaps  went  so  far  as  to  maintain 
the  right  of  petition  for  the  repeal  of 
an  obnoxious  law,  —  a  measure  which, 
in  the  Governor's  opinion,  "savored  of 
resisting  an  ordinance  of  God," —  is  the 
highest  evidence  of  his  charity  and 
goodness  of  heart  [T.] 

2  George  Ludlow  came  over  in  1630, 
but  returned  to  Kngland  very  soon. 

8  For  Mrs.  Glover,  the  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Josse  Glover,  see  note,  p.  119,  post. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  91 

[59]  Articles  of  Agreement  indented  made  the  twentieth 
Dai/  of  the  fourth  moneth  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  One  thou 
sand  six  hundred  thirty  nync  Betweem  RICHARD  COOKE  1  of 
Boston  in  Neiv  England,  tayler,  of  the  one  partc,  and  ARTHUR 
PERRY  of  the  same,  tayler,  of  the  other  parte. 

1.  Imprimis,  it  is  Covenanted,  agreed,  and  fully  concluded 
by  and  bctwccnc  the  said  parties  to  these  presents,  that   they 
shall  and  will  be  Co-partners  in  the  trade   of  Taylery,  from 
the  Date  of  these  prsents  for  and  During  the  space  of  scaven 
yearcs  thenceforth  fully  to  be  compleatc  and  ended,  if  it  shall 
please  Almighty  God  that  they  two  shall  so  long  live,  During 
all  wcb  time  they  shall  be  and  continue  together  daylie  in  one 
shoppc  and  be   at  cquall   costs   and   charges   in  providing  <fc 
paying  for  shoproome  and  all  necessary  utensills   and  things 
requisite  to  their  said  trade;,  and  shall  each  of  them  have  one 
Apprentice  servant  in  their  joynt  shop})  from  time  to  time 
during  the  said  terme  of  sea  veil  yearcs. 

2.  Item,  it  is  Covenanted,  agreed  &  fully  concluded  by  and 
bctwcenc  the  said  parties  to  these  presents  that  all  the  prof- 
fitts,  commodities    and  advantages    wch  shall    be    gotten   by 
them  in  their  said  trade,  and  by  the   industry   and   workc   of 
them  the  said  partyes  to  these  presents,  and  of  their  Appren 
tice  servants  therein  During  the  said  terme  of  scaven  yearcs 
shall  be  equally  Due  and  be  divided  and  parted  from  time  to 
time  unto  and  bctwecnc  the  said  parties  to  these  presents. 

3.  Item,  further  it  is  Covenanted  agreed  and  fully  concluded 
by  and  betweene  the  said  partyes  to  these  presents  that  neither 

1  Richard  Cooke  and  Arthur  Perry,  been  appointed  in  163S  with  a  salary  of 

the  tailors,  had,  in  1645  or  earlier,  two  £5  for  "drumming  to  the  company  on  all 

houses  on  School  Street.    Whether  their  occasions."      Later,   however,  he  agreed 

partnership  had  by  that  time  dissolved,  to  "give  his  Hcst  diligence  in  Teaching 

or  whether  they  still  did  their  business  George  Clifford  and  Nathaniel  Newgate 

in  one  shop,  I  cannot  say.     Cooke- was  in  all   the  skill  and  use  of  the   drum 

later  known  as  a  military  man,  being  of  needfull  to  all  common  service  in  mili- 

the  Artillery   Company,  and   rising   in  tary  affayres."     And  this  agreement  I 

1656  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant.     As  for  suppose  he  carried  out ;  for  in  a  year  or 

Perry,  his  rank  was  more  humble.    lie  two  he  ceased  from  drumming, —  at  least 

was  at  this  time  town    drummer,    and  in  public, 
held  the  place  for  some  years,     lie  had 


92  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

of  them  shall  in  their  said  trade  Doe  nor  permit  to  be  done  by 
their  said  servants  anything  wthout  the  assent  &  consent  of 
each  other  of  them  the  said  pties  to  these  priits,  During  the 
said  terme. 

4.  Item,  It  is  Covenanted  agreed  and  fully  concluded  by 
and  betwcene  the  said  partyes  to  these  prsents  that  in  the 
case  of  sicknesse  or  other  necessary  occasion  of  absence  of 
them  the  said  parties  to  these  presents  from  their  said  joynt 
shopp  during  the  said  tcrme,  if  the  said  absence  shall  be  by 
the  space  of  a  Day  or  more,  that  then  the  one  of  the  said  par- 
tics  shall  allowe  unto  the  other  xij<*  for  every  Daycs  absence 
of  each  other. 

In  witnesse  <£c.     Coram  Johe'  Cogan  &  mcipo.     [2s.  Gu?.~] 

Articles  about  a  bargaine  betweene  Lieutenant  Richard 
Morris1  and  Mf  Richard  Parker  for  7000  o£  clapboards 
pypestaves  at  181  p  millc,  to  be  Dd  at  Pascattaquay  any  time 
after  the  last  Day  of  the  5th  moneth.  Dated  20.  4.  1639. 
Coram  me.  [4s.  6d.] 

[60]  Be  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I 
Mary  Fayreweather 2  of  Boston,  widdowe,  in  consideration  of 
my  naturall  love  and  good  affection  that  I  beare  unto  my 
sonne  John  Fayreweather,  Doe  hereby  give  and  graunt  unto 
the  said  John  the  one  halfe  of  all  my  lands  lying  in  Pullin- 
point  nockc  3  and  Hogg  Island,  wlh  the  appurtenances,  equally 

1  Richard  Morris  was  a  military  man  Point  Neck,  Jan.   8,  1637  (  Town  lice- 

from  Roxbury.     He  had  been  disarmed,  ords,   i.    30).       He   died   late   in    16138 

in  1637,  with  others  of  the  Hutchinson  (Suvaye).      John,    his    son, — who    in 

party,  and  had  gone  to  Exeter  with  Mr.  1689  was  made  commander  of  the  cas- 

W heel \vright,    and    is    met    with    fre-  tie   after  it   was    surrendered   by   An- 

quently  in   the   Note-book,  in    transac-  dros,  —  was   born    (about)    September, 

tions  like  the  present.    Richard  Bulgar,  1634  ;  and  so  was  not  five  years  old  at 

also  a  Roxbury  man,  who  was  disarmed,  the  date  of  this  deed  of  gift.     A  revised 

went  at  first  to  Rhode  Island,  but  after-  draft  of  this  deed  of  gift,   with  addi- 

wards  to  Maine,  where  he  is  met  with  tional   provisos,    is   found    on    another 

in  connection  with  Morris  later  in  the  page.      [T.]      For  John    Evered,   alias 

Note-book.  Webb,    or  John   Webb,   alias   Evered, 

2  Widow  of  Thomas   Fayerweather,  see  pp.  138,  224,  post. 

an  early  settler,   who  had   an   "allot-          8  Pullin   Point  (now  Point  Shirley, 

merit"  in  the  division  of  lands  at  Pullin  Chelsea)  was  so  called,  as  Wood  informs 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  93 

to  be  Devilled,  To  have  <fc  to  hold  the  said  one  luilfo  of  the 
said  lands  unto  him  the  said  John  Fayrcweathcr  his  heires 
and  assignes  for  ever.  And  I  doc  hereby  graunt  unto  the  said 
John  Fayreweather  that  I  and  the  said  John  shall  &  will 
stand  seized  of  the  other  halfe  of  my  said  lands  unto  the  use 
of  myselfe  for  my  life  and  afterwards  to  the  use  of  such 
child  and  children  that  shall  be  lawfully  begotten  betwecne 
me  and  John  Everet  als.  Webb  whome  I  intend  by  the  grace 
of  God  to  take  to  my  husband,  and  the  heires  of  such  childe 
or  children  forcvf  and  for  default  of  such  issue  to  the  use  of 
the  said  John  Fayrcweathcr,  his  heires  and  assigncs  for  ever. 
And  lastly,  I  Doe  hereby  give  and  graunt  unto  the  said  John 
Fayreweather  one  heyfcr  of  two  yeares  old,  To  have  and  to 
hold  the  said  heyfer  unto  the  said  John  Fayreweather  his 
executors  administrators  &  assignes  for  ever.  In  witncsse 
whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  &  scale  the  twenty  first 
Day  of  the  fourth  moncth,  Anno  Dim.  1639.  [2s.  4.] 

Copic  of  a  grant  of  Powderhorne  Hill l  by  Henry  Vane 
Esq^  to  William  Brampton  gent.  Dated  2.  1638  [sic],  [6d.] 

Vincent  Potter  2  gent,  [places  f]  and  John  Johnson  places 
himselfe  unto  Daniel  Pierce  of  Watertowne,  blacksmith,  for 
9  yeares  from  this  Day  for  12*,  double  apparcll,  &  5*.  Coram 
me  <fc  Duobus  aliis  tcstibus.  [2s.  6t?.] 

This  Indenture  etc.     Dated  25.  4.  1639. 

[The  next  two  entries  are  in  short-hand. ,] 
Received  of  My  Hibbins  25.  4.  1639.     [10s.] 

Received  of  M!  Bellingham  for  loan  or  gift  [illegible],  which 
I  please;  but  if  [it]  please  God  that  I  am  able  [illegible],  I 
intend  to  pay  him.  [11.] 

us,   because   those   who    passed    it    in  ance  to  William   Brampton  (Rrenton?) 

boats,  when  the  tide  was  strong,   "are  was  probably  executed  in  England.    [T.J 
constrayned    to    goe   ashore,    and  hale          2  Vincent    Potter  came   in    "1635, 

their  boates  by  the  sealing,  or  roades  "  aged  21,  was  next  year  a  soldier  at  the 

(New  England's  Prospect,  p.  45).     [T.J  castle"  (Savage).     See  later  in  the  Note- 

1  In  Chelsea,  where  Vane  was  one  of  book,  pp.  65,  119. 
the  '  largest  proprietors.     This  convey- 


94  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


[61]  Articles  of  Agreement  Indented  made  the  ffowerteenth 
Daij  °f  ^te  second  moneth  Anno  Dni  One  thousand  six  hun 
dred  thirty  and  nyne  Betiveene  WILLIAM  TYNG  of  Boston 
in  New  JEnyland,  merchant,  of  the  one  parte,  And  JOHN 
llKADE1  of  Way  mouth  in  New  England  Planter,  of  the 
other  parte,  in  manner  and  forme  following. 

It  is  Covenanted,  agreed  and  fully  concluded  by  and  be- 
twecne  the  said  party  es  to  these  presents,  Imprimis,  that  the 
said  John  Reade  shall  and  will  occupye  and  enjoy  all  that  the 
said  William  Tyng's  ffarmc  house  and  ffarme  at  Mount  Wol- 
laston  called  Salter's  ffarme,  wth  all  the  appurtenances  lately 
by  him  purchased  of  William  Coddington  late  of  Boston,2 
gent.,  from  the  Day  of  the  Date  hereof  for  and  During  the 
space  of  Tenne  yeares  thenceforth  next  ensuing,  fully  to  be 
compleate  and  ended. 

2.  It  in,  that  the  said  William  Tyng  shall  and   will   stocke 
the   said   house    &    farme    to    the    hand    of   the    said    John 
Reade,  in  manner  following,  that  is  to  say,  wth  tenne  milch 
cowcs,  tcnne  heyfers  of  two  yeares  old  a  peece,  tenne  heyfers 
of  one  yeare  old  a  pecce,  ten  cowe  calves,  One  bull  of  two 
yeares  old  and  one  bull  calfe,  Tenne  Oxen,  fower  mares,  One 
stoned  colt   of   a  yeare  old,  twenty   ewe   goats,  One   goate 
rammc,  three  sowes,  One  boare,  eight  store  swyne,  One  cocke, 
tenne   hennes,  One  turkey  cockc,  two   turkey   hennes,  One 
gander,  four  geese,  One  Drake  and  fowrc  Ducks. 

3.  Itm,  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  and  will  kcop  and 
improve  all  the  said  live  stocke  upon  the  premises  as  near  as 
may  be  from  time  to  time  During   the  said  terme  of  tenne 
yeares.     And  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  £  will  wthin 
15  moneths  next  after  the  date  hereof  build  or  cause  to  be 
built  at  his  proper  costs  &   charges  on    the  premises,  One 
barne  of  seaventy  foxvre  fectc  in  length  and  forty    feete  in 
breadth   and   convenient    hcigth    proportionable,   taking   all 

1  John  Reade  had  been  of  Dorchester,  but  was  now  a  man  of  property  and 
influence  in  Weymouth. 

2  Sec  pp.  36-40,  ante.     [T.] 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  95 

such  material  Is    lhat  will    serve   <  hereunto    upon    the    lands 
belonging  to  the  said  farine. 

4.  Item,  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  and  will  from  time 
to  time  during  the  said  terme  at  his  proper  costs  &  charges 
well    <fc   sufficiently  repay  re,  maintaine  uphold  <fc    kecpc  the 
said  ffarmc  house  &  Barn  <fc  all  outhouses  to  the  said  ffarme 
belonging  and  all  fences  <fc  increase  fences  and  the  garden 
thereunto   belonging   and   the  fruit    trees   thereon    with   all 
needful  &  necessary  rcparacons  hedges  pales  fences  mounds  <fc 
ditches  and  the  same  so  well  £  sufficiently  repayred  main 
tained  upheld  &  kept  shall  <fc  will  leave  &  yield  up  in  the  end 
of  the  said  tcrmc  unto  the  said  William  Tyngc. 

5.  Item,  that  the  sayd  John  Reade  shall  and  may  have  & 
take  in  &  upon  the  premises  wood  &  timber  for  reparations 
of  the  said  farme  houses  <fc  barnc  &  outhouses  fences  and  all 
nccdfull  &  necessary  hedgbootc,  gatcboote,  paleboote  <fe  fire- 
boote  not  Doing  any  voluntary  wast   upon  the   said  premises 
from  time  to  time  During  the  said  tcrmc. 

0.  Itiii,  that  the  said  John  Re-ado  shall  and  will  fyncl  ct  pro 
vide  sufficient  seed  corne  for  the  premises  tbis  present  ycarc 
And  shall  &  will  from  time  to  tymc  During  the  said  terme, 
findc  £  provide  all  necessary  ploughes,  ploughshares,  carts, 
harnesses  for  the  same,  Dayrie  implements,  cythes,  axes, 
hatchets,  hammers,  mattocks,  pickaxes,  spades,  shovells, 
rakes,  saws,  wedges,  and  all  other  necessary  utensils  for  the 
managing  of  the  said  ffarme  &  stockc  &  the  increase  thereof. 

7.  ItiTi,  that  the  said  William  Tyng  in  the  end  of  the  said 
terme  shall  &  will  buy  of  the  sayd  John  Readc  the  ploughes 
ploughshares  carts  harnesses  for  the  same  dayrie  implements 
cythes   axes   hatchotts   hammers   mattocks    pickaxes   spades 
shovells   rakes  sawes    wedges    &    all    other    necessary    uten- 
sills  used  and  bought  by  the  said  John  Reade  for  the  man 
aging  of  the  premises  at  such  reasonable   rates  <fe  prizes   as 
they  shall  be  valued  at  by  two  indifferent  men  bctwcenc  the 
said  partycs  to  be  chosen    or   by    the    arbitrators    in    these 
presents  named. 

8.  Item,  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  £  will  from  time 
to  tyme  kccpe  scaven  men  servants  able  for  their  severall 


96  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

imployments  and  two  able  mayd  servants,  and  that  lie  shall 
and  will  imploye  his  owne  labour  and  industry  and  the  labor 
and  industry  of  all  his  said  servants  for  the  improvement  of 
the  said  ffarme  and  live  stocke  wth  its  increase  During  the 
sayd  tcrmc. 

9.  I tiii,  that  the  sayd  John  Reade  shall  not  nor  will  put  on 
nor  receive  any  other  cattell,  swyne  or  poultrey  of  his  owne 
or  of  any  other  prson  or  persons  to  be  fedd  or  kept  upon  the 
premises,  wtbout  the  consent  of  the  said  William  Tyng,  and 
then  the  said  William  Tyng  shall  have  halfe  the  profits  for 
keeping  and   feeding    of   all    such    other    cattell,  swyne    or 
poultry. 

10.  It  in,  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  &  will  breake  up 
and  improve  wth  the  plough  and  plant  or  sowe  eight  acres  of 
the  arrablc  ground  of  the  premises  that  hath  not  ben  formerly 
broken   up  or  ploughed,   planted  or  sowen   formerly,   every 
yeare  During  the  said  terme. 

11.  Itiii,  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  not  nor  will  give, 
sell  or  carry  any  hay  or  strawe  off  the  premises  to  the  value 
of  five  shillings  p  annu,  wthout  the  consent  of  the  sayd  Wil 
liam  Tyng. 

[62]  1  12.  Item,  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  &  will  lay 
or  cause  to  be  layd  all  the  compost,  manure  or  Dung  wch  shall 
be  made  there  on  the  premises  in  husbandly  manner  where 
most  need  shall  be  from  time  to  time  During  the  said 
termc. 

14.2  Itiii,  that  the  first  tenne  hcyfers  of  the  said  stocke  that 
shall  come  to  the  payle  shall  be  kept  for  stocke,  and  if  any  of 
them  faylc,  the  said  number  to  be  made  up  out  of  the  said 
stockcs  increase  from  time  to  time  ever  after  during  the 
sayd  tcrmc,  and  in  the  end  thereof  to  be  equally  Divided 
between  the  sayd  partyes. 

1  It  may  seem  that  tho  paging  hero  position  in  the  page.     The  page-marks 

is  very  irregular.     This  arises  from  the  have  been  set  in  where  they  occur;  but  in 

fact   that  the   articles   in    the    present  the  case  of  pp.  62-64  they  mean  but 

agreement    have   been    printed   accord-  little,   as   the  articles   have   been  very 

ing  to  the  order  indicated  by  the  num-  generally  transferred, 
bering  rather  than  according  to  their          2  There  is  no  item  numbered  13.  [T.] 


LECHFORD'S   MAXUSCIUPT  NOTE-BOOK.  97 

15.  Itm,  that  the  increase  of  llic  said  stocke  *t  brnol'ilts  <t 
proffitts  of  the  said  farme  shall  equally  belong  unto  it  be  di 
vided  unto  and  bctweenc  the  said  partycs  from  time  to  tynie 
During  the  said  terme  in  manner  &  forme  herein  expressed. 

[63]  10.  Item,  that  the  said  John  Rcade  shall  tt  will  from 
time  to  time  during  the  said  terme  upon  one  moneths  warn 
ing  give  an  account  in  writing  under  his  hand,  unto  the 
said  William  Tyng  of  all  increase  and  decrease  of  the  said 
stock e. 

17.  I  tin,  that  the  increase   of   the  sayd  stocke  tt   protlits 
of  the  said   farme  shall  from  time  to  tymc  during  the.  said 
terme   be  divided,  as  the   sayd  partyes  shall   oil  her  of  them 
require   of   the  other  upon  one  monetlfs  warning:    so  that 
none  of  the  said   cattcll  of  the   increase  of  the   said   stocke 
shall  be  divided  till  they  breed  or  bo  wayed  in  the  yoake,  nor 
shall  the  conic  be  divided  till  it  be  brought  info  the  barne  tt 
threshed,  tt  then  to  be  divided  by  the  bushell. 

18.  I  tin,  that  upon  every  dividend  the  continuing  stocke 
shall  bo  made  good  if  any  fayle  from  time  to  tymc  Puringc 
the  sayd  tonne  out  of  the  said  stoeko's  increase,  saving  that 
if   any  partc   of    the   said  stooko   Dye   or  fayle   through   the 
wilfull  default  of  the  said  John  Read  then  he  shall  forthwith 
make  good  ct  rcpairc  the  same  at  his  ownc  costs  ct  charges. 

19.  It  in,  that  from  time   to   tymc  during  the   said  terme 
upon  every  dividend,  the  said  William  Tyng  shall  have  lib 
erty  to  appoint  what  cattell,  horses  mares  or  swyno  shall  be 
kept  for  the  standing  and  continuing  stooko. 

20.  Itiii,  that  the  sayd  John  Rea.de  shall  in  the  end  of  the 
sayd  terme  leave  tt  yield  up  unto  the  said  Willm  Tyng  the 
said  farme  fully  stocked  in  such  manner  tt   kind  as  the   said 
John  Read  rcccivcth  the  same  from  the  said  William  Tyng. 

21.  Itm,  that  the  said  John  Reade  shall  forbear  to  fell  such 
trees  about  the  said  farm  house  as  the   said  William  Tyngc 
shall  direct. 

22.  Itm,  that  the  said  John  Read  shall  not  nor  will  have 
any  dealing  in  any  other  farm  or  trade  during  the  said  terme, 
except   his   letting  <t    [64]    setting  his  farm  at   Weymouth, 
wthout  the  consent  of  the  savd  Win  Tvii'jr. 


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23.  Itm,  that  the  said  John  Rcade  shall  not  nor  will  during 
the  said  terme  do  or  suffer  to  be  Done  anything  to  the  breach 
of  any  of  the  articles  of  agreement  or  Covenants  made  be 
tween   the  said  Willili  Tyng  and  W.  Coddington  a  coppy  l 
whereof  the  said  John  Rcade  hath  in  his  custody. 

24.  Itm,  that  the  sayd  John  lleade  shall  and  will  from  time 
to  time  during  the  sayd  terme  pay  all  towne  rates  for  Mount 
Wollaston  charged  upon  the  said   farme  or  his  person,  but 
all  other  rates  for  the  sayd  farme  shall  be  payd  out  of  the 
increase  of  the  sayd  stocke  &  p'fits  of  the  said  farme. 

25.  Itm,  that  the  said  Partyes  shall  equally  have  and  enjoy 
the  improvements  and   profitts  of   &  by  the  said  servants, 
ploughs  carts  <fe  teames,  to  be  equally  Divided  with  the  in 
crease  of  the  sayd  stocke  from  time  to  time  During  the  said 
terme. 

26.  Itm,  the  sayd  William  Tyng  shall  and  will  from  time  to 
time  during  the  sayd  terme  pay  halfe  the  charges  for  hire  and 
maintenance  of  workmen  or  women,  when  any  shall  be  hired 
&  employed  over  and  above  the  sayd  servants,  as  need  shall 
require  for  planting,  reaping,  mowing  and  making  of  hay. 

27.  I  tin,  that  the  sayd  John  Reade  shall  and  will  from  time 
to  time  during  the  said  terme  allow  unto  the  sayd  William 
Tyng  lodging  and  Dyet  for  himself  &  horsemcat  &  stable- 
roome  for  his  horse  when  he  shall  come  to  the  sayd  farme  to 
survey  the  same,  make  a  dividend  or  for  any  other  occasions 
wch  he  shall  have  liberty  to  doe  at  one  or  more  times  in  the 
yeare,  for  the  space  of  one  moneth  in  the  yeare,  yearely  During 
the  sayd  tcrmc  and  at  these  tymes  he  shall  have  the  use  of 
the  chamber  wch  M?  Coddington  used  to  lye  in  for  his  lodging. 

28.  Itm,  that  the  said  William  Tynge  shall  have   liberty 
from  time  to  time  During  the  sayd  term  to  fell,  cut,  saw,  hew 
&  carry  away  any  wood  tyrnber,  trees,  boards,  planks,  pales 
or  other  wood  things  whatsoever  leaving  sufficient  tymber 
frees  <fc  wood  for  the  mayntenance  of  the'  sayd  farme. 

29.  Itm,  that  the  sayd  Willm  Tyng  shall  have  liberty  to 
erect  &  build  one  watermill  on  the  premises  for  the  use  of 
him  &  his  assignes  and  to  make  darnmes,  floodgates  or  pooles 

1  See  pp.  39,  40,  ante.     [T.] 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  99 

for  that  end,  and  to  lay  two  acres  of  ground  thereto,  and 
shall  have  free  ingresse,  cgressc  £  regressc  for  him  &  his 
assignes  and  those  that  shall  grindc  their  conic  therein  into 
and  from  the  same  mill  when  it  shall  be  set  up  &  huilt,  the 
said  William  Tyngc  or  his  assignes  from  time  to  time  During 
the  sayd  terme  after  the  said  mill  shall  be  erected  <fc  built 
grinding  the  conic  of  the  said  John  Reade  for  the  said  farme 
house  keeping,  or  allowing  ycarcly  unto  the  said  John  Reade 
what  the  grinding  of  fifty  bushells  of  conic  shall  be  worth. 

80.  Itm,  that  if  the  said  William  Tyng  shall  hereafter  at 
any  time  during  the  said  terme  be  necessitated  to  sell  the  said 
ffarmc  house  &  farmc,  then  the  said  John  Rcade  for  fifty 
pounds  to  be  payd  him  in  hand,  upon  six  moneths  warning, 
shall  &  will  surrender  &  rcdeliver  unto  the  sayd  Willm 
Tyng  the  said  farme  house  &  farme  <fc  stocke,  wth  his  partc  of 
the  dividend,  increase  &  profitts  thereof. 

31.  It  in,  that  if  the  sayd  Willm  Tyng  shall  hereafter  at  any 
time  during  the  sayd  terme  be  disposed  to  sell  the  said  farme 
house  and  farmc  for  his  ownc  profit  £  advantage,  then  the 
said  John  Reade  for  one  hundred  pounds  to  be  payd  him  in 
hand  upon  six  moneths  warning  shall  &  will  surrender  unto 
the  said  William  Tyng  the  sayd  farmc  house  <t  farmc  £ 
stocke  wth  all  his  partc  of  the  dividend,  increase  &  profitts 
thereof. 

32.  Item,  that  in  case  any  difference  shall   arise  between 
the  said  partycs  their  heircs  or  executors  about  or  Concerning 
the  premises,  that  then  they  shall  and  will  from  time  to  tyme 
perform,  fullfill,  stand  to  £  keepe  the  arbitremcnt  of  Thomas 
Leverit1  one  of   the  Elders  of  the   Church   of  Boston   &  of 
William  Colbron  Deacon  of  the  same  or  of  two  others  Arbi 
trators  indifferently  chosen  or  to  be  chosen  by  <fc  between  the 

1  Thomas  Leverett  and  William  Col-  fleet   with  Winthrop,    was   for   a   long 

bron,    prominent   men   in   the  church,  time   deacon,    and   later   ruling  elder ; 

were  of  high  consideration  in   Boston,  often,  too,  selectman.     Jlis  opinions  on 

Thomas  Leverett  was  ruling  elder,  and  religious  matters  had  decided  leanings 

also   selectman    from   the   time   of  his  towards  the  heresies  of  Wheelwright ; 

choice,  shortly  after  he  came  over  from  but  he  was  neither  disarmed  nor  dis- 

old  Boston,  in  1633,  until  his  death,  in  franchised  therefor. 
1650.     William  Colbron    came   in   the 


100  LECllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

sayd  partycs,  their  hoircs  or  executors.1     (Rd  10s  in  pt  3.  10. 
1630.) 

[65]  Be  it  known  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I 
Mury  Fairewcather  of  Boston  in  New  England  widdow,  in 
tending  by  the  grace  of  God  to  take  to  husband  John  Everet 
als  Wcl)l)2  of  Boston  aforesaid,  in  Consideration  of  my  natn- 
rall  love  &  good  affection  that  T  beare  unto  my  Soune  John 
FayrcwcathcT  doc  hereby  before  tlie  said  marriage  give  and 
grant  unto  the  said  John  Faireweather  the  one  halfe  of  all 
my  lands  lying  in  Pullinpoint  necke  and  Ilogge  Island  wlh 
the  appurtenances  equally  to  be  divided  To  have  and  to  hold 
the  said  one  halfe  of  the  said  lands  unto  him  the  said  John 
Fayre\veathcr  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever,  Provided  all- 
wayes  that  if  the  said  John  Faireweather  shall  happen  to 
Dye  without  issue  before  he  shall  attaine  to  his  age  of  twenty 
and  oiicycares  then  this  grant  shall  ho  voyd  And'I  doe  hereby 
grant  unto  the  said  John  Faireweather  that  I  and  the  said 
John  Webb  and  the  heires  of  our  two  bodies  lawfully  to  be 
begotten  botweene  us  shall  and  will  stand  seised  of  the  other 
halfe  of  my  said  lands  to  the  use  of  me  and  the  said  John 
Everet  als  Webb  during  our  lives  and  the  longest  liver  of  us 
and  after  to  the  use  of  the  heires  of  our  bodies  betweenc  us 
lawfully  to  be  begotten  and  for  default  of  such  issue  to  the 
use  of  the  said  John  Fnyreweathcr  his  heires  &  assigncs  for 
ever  And  in  case  he  Dye  as  aforesaid  wthout  issue  then  to  the 
use  of  my  right  heires  for  ever  Provided  allwayes  that  in  case 
I  and  the  sayd  John  Everet  ais  Webb  shall  be  disposed  for 
necessity  or  convenience  to  make  sale  of  the  said  last  men- 
coned  halfe  of  the  said  lands  that  then  upon  tender  of  six 
pence  unto  a  Deacon  of  the  Church  of  Boston  this  entayle 
shall  be  voyd  and  thenceforth  it  shall  be  lawfull  for  us  to  Dis 
pose  thereof  by  our  joynt  consent  &  grant  in  writing  before 
sutlicient  witnesses.  And  lastly  I  Doc  hereby  give  and  grant 
unto  the  said  John  Fayreweatlier  one  heyfer  <fcc.  put  Devant. 
[2*.  bU] 

1  It  is  doubtful  if  those  articles  \vere     a  man  "of  good  property  and  influence,' 
t-xccutrd   by  the   parties.     John    Ifead     September,  1685  (Savage).    [T.] 
was  at  Hehoboth  in  1C45,  where  lie  died,          2  See  p.  60»  ante,  and  note.    [T.] 


LECH  FORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  101 

William  Ilutchinson  of  Aqucdneckc,  gent,  and  Edward 
Iliitcliinsoii  of  Boston,  his  sonne,  of  the  one  parte,  and  David 
^ellecke  of  Dorchester,  soap  boy  lor,  of  the  other  pt, —  for 
801,  to  pay  20*  in  hand  and  00l  wthin  5  yea  res,  in  the  incanc 
time  the  ycarcly  rent  of  0}  nt  2  payments,  1  payment 
25.  10,  &  [the  other]  24.  4;  but  if  the  money  be  paytl  the 
rent  to  cease,  —  sell  one  Dwelling  house  in  Dorchester  hereto 
fore  built  by  Mr.  Rosseter,  and  one  acre  &  halfe  more  or  lessc, 
for  the  home  lott  or  garden,  16  acres  of  wood  ground  lying  on 
the  southwest  syde  of  the  plantation,  and  all  their  right  in 
Dorchester  necke,  3  acres  <fc  halfe  be  it  more  or  lesse.1 

Vincent  Potter2  gent,  assignes  Stephen  Barret  to  Win  Fos 
ter  of  Ipswich  in  New  England  Planter  for  131  in  hand  & 
31  15s.  a  yearc  for  five  y cares  from  the  21U?  4.  Coram  me 
£  npore.  [2-9.  6.] 

Mo  Rohtum  Sedgwicke  Do  villa  Caroti  in  N.  A.  Pandopato- 
rom  toner"  A:c.  Edw.  Tyng  Do  P>.  merchnnt  in  500^.  Condi- 
couofl  for  payment  of  1091  T.^.  8d.  29.  5  and  so  much  G.  7. 
pp.  Pat.  2G.  4.  1039.  Coram  Willo  Tyng  &  meipo.  [U] 

[66]  This,  Indenture  <frc.  Pat.  20.  4.  1039.  Hetweene  Vin 
cent  Potter  gent  £  Williii  Parkc.  An  assigncment  of  Henry 
Kenningc  an  Apprentice  from  21.4  for  8  ycarcs  &c.  coram. 
[2s.  6(?.] 

1  The    notes    or   memoranda    for    a  24.   4.   16-39.     Coram  Samuel  Iluteliin- 

drau^ht  (which  is  given  at  length  two  son,   Tho.  Savage,   et  me  i[»so  i'or  [lul- 

})ag(,-s   farther   on)   of  a  convcyaneo   liy  ward   Ilutehinson,   the  son]."     [T.J 

William  and  Edward   Hutchinson  of  a  For   David    Sdlicke,   see   note   on    p. 

house  and  garden   in    Dorchester,    and  133. 

sixteen    acres    of    woodland,     "  on    the  2  Vincent    Totter,   who  had    been    a 

southwest  sydc  of  the  said  Towne  plan-  soldier  at  the  castle  during  his  stay  in 

tation,   and  bounded  wth  the  lands  of  Boston,    went    back   to    England,  Dec. 

Mr    John     Warham    \vch   he    hath    in  15,  1039.     William  Foster,  of  Ipswich, 

right  of  his   wife   or  her  children,    on  came  [probably]  in  the  same  ship  with 

the    cast    parte,    wth   the    said    Townc  Thomas    Foster,    afterwards   gunner   at 

common    on    the    \vest,    wth   the    high  the  castle.     They  may  or  may  not  have 

way  leading  to  Neponset  river  on  the  been  brothers,   but  it   is  possible  that 

north  parte,    and  wth  the  said  Towne  Potter  came  across  William  through  his 

common  on   the   south   parte.      Dated  brother  Thomas.     See  Savage. 


102  LEG II FORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

A  letter  by  Katharine  Wcelden  to  M*  Jolin  Shanvat  of  Not 
tingham  dated  29.  4. 1639.  touching  the  Death  <fec.  of  Martha 
Weelden  of  Dedham  who  was  Drowned  about  12  Daycs  be 
fore.  She  was  a  godly  mayde  by  all  probabilities  in  this 
letter  testifyed.  [0-0.] 

Borrowed  of  M*  Story  1  about  a  moncth  since  2lb    )  - 
&  halfe  of  the  best  Suger  at  2s.  the  pound.        ) 

Borrowed  of  Mr  David  Offley  31  to  be  payd  6.  7.  1639. 

The  Condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  said 
John  Reade  shall  from  time  to  time  observe  fullfill  <fe  kecpe 
all  such  Covenants  articles  and  agreements  as  are  on  his  parte 
to  be  observed  fullfilled  <fc  kept  mentioned  in  certaine  Articles 
indented  bearing  Date  wth  these  presents  made  betweene  the 
said  William  Tyng  of  the  one  parte  and  the  sayd  John  of  the 
othf  p*  then  this  obligation  shall  be  voyd  &  of  none  effect  or 
els  shall  be  &  remaine  in  full  power  strength  &  vertue. 

Nos  Johem  Reade  de  Wey mouth  in  Nova  Anglia  Plantator 
et  Richardum  Wright  de  Mountwollaston  in  N.  A.  Plantato- 
rem  toner'  <tc.  Wiilo  Tyng  mercator  in  [Wan£]  libris  Dat.  14. 
2.  1639.  coram. 

Condiconcd  ut  supa  mutatis  mutandis. 

This  Indenture  made  the  Twenty  fourth  Day  of  the  fourth 
moncth  In  the  yearc  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  six  hundred 
thirty  and  nyne  betweene  William  Ilutchinson  of  Aqucdnecke 
Island  gent  and  Edward  Ilutchinson  of  Boston  in  New 
England  sonne  &  heirc  apparant  of  the  said  Willm  of  the 
one  parte  and  David  Selleckc  of  Dorchester  in  New  England 

1   "One  George  Story,  a  young  mer-  with  Captain  Robert  Keayne  (Winth., 

chant  of   London,"    who   became   con-  ii.  69,  117),  makes  here  his  first  recorded 

spiruous  some  three  years  later  as  the  appcai-anee  in  the  colony.      [T.]     (See 

solicitor  of  Mrs.  Sherman,  in  the  suit  pp.  84,181,234,  post.) 


LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  103 

soapc  boylcr  of  the  other  partc  Witnesscth  that  the  sayd 
William  Hutchinson  and  Edward  llutcliinson  for  and  in  Con 
sideration  of  the  summc  of  f Tower  score  pounds  of  lawfull 
money  of  England  to  them  hy  the  sayd  David  Sellecke  his 
heires  or  asss  to  be  payd  in  manner  <fc  forme  following  that 
is  to  say  twenty  pounds  thereof  in  hand  at  the  scaling  &  de 
livery  hereof  and  the  other  sixty  pounds  thereof  wthin  the 
space  of  live  yearcs  next  [67]  ensuing  the  Date  hereof  have 
granted  bargained  and  sold  and  by  these  presents  Doe  grant 
bargaine  <fc  sell  unto  the  said  David  Sellecke  one  Dwelling 
house  situate  in  Dorchester  aforesayd  wch  was  heretofore 
built  by  Mr  Rosseter  and  all  outhouses  and  one  garden  or 
homo  iott  thereunto  belonging  and  sixtcenc  acres  of  wood 
ground  be  it  more  or  lease  thereunto  belonging  lying  &  being 
on  the  southwest  syde  of  the  said  Towne  plantation  and 
bounded  wth  the  lands  of  M'  John  Warham  wch  he  hath  in 
right  of  his  wife  or  her  children  on  the  cast  partc  wth  the 
said  Towno  common  on  the  west  parte  wthe  highway  leading 
to  Neponset  River  on  the  north  parte  and  wthe  said  Towne 
Common  on  the  south  parte  and  allso  all  there  right  title 
interest  and  demand  of  in  and  to  three  acres  and  three  quar 
ters  mid  three  roddes  of  land  be  it  more  or  lesse  lying  in 
Dorchester  ncckc  and  all  Commons  profits  commodities  hered 
itaments  and  appurtenances  whatsoever  to  the  sayd  premises 
belonging  To  have  &  to  hold  the  said  Dwelling  house  and 
Lands  wth  all  and  singularc  the  premises  wth  the  appurte 
nances  whatsoever  unto  the  said  David  Sellecke  his  hcircs 
and  assignes  in  i'fec  farme  untill  the  sayd  sixty  pounds  shall 
be  by  him  or  them  payd  unto  the  said  William  Hutchinson 
and  Kdward  llutcliinson  their  execufs  administrators  or  as 
signes  And  afterwards  To  have  and  to  hold  the  sayd  Dwelling 
house  and  lands  &  all  and  singularc  the  prmiscs  wth  the 
appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said  David  Sellecke  his 
heires  and  assignes  absolutely  for  ever  Yielding  and  paying 
therefore  ycarely  unto  the  said  William  Hutchinson  and  Ed 
ward  Hutchinson  their  executors  administrators  or  assignes 
or  some  or  one  of  them  the  summe  of  six  pounds  by  the  ycarc 
at  two  sevcrall  Daves  of  payment  viz1  the  2511?  Day  of  Deccm- 


104  LECUFORD^S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

her  and  the  24l.h  day  of  the  fourth  moneth  every  yearc  untill 
the  sayd  prineipall  sixty  pounds  shall  be  payd  as  aforesayd 
Provided  alhvaycs  that  if  the  sayd  yearely  suinme  of  six 
pounds  shall  be  behind  or  unpayd  in  parte  or  in  all  by  the 
space  of  tonne  Dayes  after  cither  of  the  said  Duycs  of  pay 
ment  thereof  wherein  the  same  ought  to  be  payd  as  aforesaid 
being  lawfully  demanded  or  if  the  said  prineipall  sixty  pounds 
or  any  parte  thereof  shall  be  behind  or  unpayd  at  the  end  of 
the  said  fyvc  yeares  next  ensuing  the  Date  hereof  that  then 
&  from  thenceforth  it  shall  and  may  be  lawfull  to  anil  for 
the  said  William  Ilutehinson  &  Edward  Hutehinson  their 
heires  or  assignes  into  the  premises  &  every  parte  therof  to 
reenter  and  the  same  to  have  againe  possesse  &  enjoy  as  in 
their  former  right  and  estate  for  and  notwthstanding  any 
thing  in  these  presents  conteyned  to  the  contrary  thereof  in 
any  wise  not  wl 'standing.  In  wilncsse  &c.  coram  Samuel 
Ilutehinson  Tlio.  Savage  &  meipo  p  Ed\v.  fiiiu.  [0.  GJ.] 

Me  Davide  Sellecke  De  Dorchester  in  Nova  Anglia  soapc- 
boyler  toner'  &c.  Wiiio  Ilutehinson  gen  et  Edvo  Hutehinson 
filio  et  heredi  apparent!  eimsdem  Wiifi  in  Centum  et  viginti 
libris  Hat.  vicesimo  quarto.  4.  1G39.  Coram.  Coram  pre. 
testibus. 

[68]  The  Condition  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the 
said  David  Sellccke  his  heires  executors  administrators  or 
assignes  shall  well  and  truly  pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the 
said  William  Ilutehinson  and  Hdward  Ilutehinson  or  one  of 
them  their  or  either  of  their  executors  administrators  or 
assignes  or  any  of  them  the  ycarely-rent  of  six  pounds  and 
the  principal  summe  of  sixty  pounds  reserved  and  limittcd  in 
and  by  one  payrc  of  indentures  bearing  date  wth  these  pre 
sents  made  betweenc  the  said  William  &  Edward  of  the  one 
parte  £  the  said  David  of  the  other  parte  according  to  the 
force  forme  and  effect  of  the  said  reservation  and  limittation 
in  and  by  the  said  indentures  then  this  obligation  shall  he 
voyd  <fc  of  none  effect  or  els  shal  rcmayne  &  be  in  full 
power  strength  &  vcrtue. 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  105 


The  Oath  proposed  in  England  whereon  the  Lord*  S>iy  <f'  Seale 
<?-  Brooke  were  imprisoned  at   Yorke  when,  the  Kui;j  went 
the  Scotts  iv"1  an  Arm.     Anno  1(>-W. 


I  Due  swcare  before  the  Almighty  and  cverliviug  Clod, 
that  I  will  beare  all  faithtull  allegiance  to  my  true  and  un 
doubted  Soveraigne  Lord  Iving  Charles,  who  is  lauiidl  King 
of  this  Island  and  all  oilier  his  dominions  both  by  sea  and 
land  by  Ihe  Law  of  (lod  and  mini,  and  by  lawl'nil  succession, 
and  that  I  will  most  constantly  and  cheerefully  even  to  the 
utmost  hazard  of  my  life  ami  fortune  oppose  all  seditions, 
rebellions,  Conspiracies,  Covenants,  and  treasons  whatsoever 
against  his  matlcs  Crowne  and  dignity  or  person,  raysed  or 
sett  up  under  what  pretence  of  religion  or  colour  soever, 
And  if  it  shall  come  veyled  under  pretence  of  religion  1 
hould  it  most  abominable  before  God  tt  man.  And  this  oath 
I  take  voluntary,  under  the  faith  of  a  good  Christian  and 
loyall  subject,  wthout  any  equivocation  or  men  tall  reservation 
whatsoever,  from  wch  I  hould  no  power  on  earth  can  absolve 
me  in  any  parte. 

Me  Ed  nun  Ilntchinson  de  Boston  in  nova  Anglia  gen.  toner' 
etc.  Davidi  Scllcckc  in  Octaginta  libris  bone  et  legnlis  monet 
Anglic  <tc.  Dat'  vicesimo  quarto  quart!  1G30.  Coram.  Samuel 
Ilutchinson,  Tho  :  Savage  &  mcipo. 

The  CondicoTi  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  above- 
bounden  Edward  Ilutchinson  shall  procure  and  prcvayle  wth 
his  {'father  William  Ilutchinson  of  Aquednccke  Island  gent 
to  signc  seale  and  Deliver  as  his  act  and  Deed  unto  the  above- 
named  David  Scllcckc  or  to  some  other  to  the  use  of  the 
said  David  Sellecke  before  two  or  three  credible  and  sufficient 
witnesses  One  Indenture  of  bargaine  and  sale  of  a  ccrtaine 
Dwelling  house  and  lands  in  Dorchester  allrcady  drawne 
betweenc  the  said  William  and  Edward  of  the  one  purte  and 
the  said  David  of  the  other  parte  and  allrcady  [69J  sealed 
unto  by  the  said  Edward  Dated  wth  these  prsents  and  if  the 
said  Edward  shall  Deliver  or  cause  the  same  so  sealed  by 


106  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

his  said  ffathcr  and  himself  c  to  be  Delivered  unto  the  said 
David  safe  undefaccd  and  uncancclled  before  the  last  Day  of 
October  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  then  this  obligation 
shallbe  voyd  and  of  none  effect  or  els  shall  remaine  and  be 
in  full  power  strength  and  vertue  [Is.] 

Betwccne  Richard  Bcllinghain  of  Boston  in  New  England 
Esqr  of  the  one  pte  and  George  Minot  of  Dorchester  in  New 
England  one  of  the  Elders  of  the  Church  there,  of  the  other 
partc,  Witnesscth  that  the  sayd  Richard  Bellingham  for  and 
in  Consideration  of  the  summe  of  one  hundred  pounds  of 
lawfull  money  of  England  to  him  in  hand  payd  before  the 
sealing  <fe  delivery  of  these  presents,  by  the  said  George 

Minot. One  Dwelling  House  and  home  lott  and  barne  and 

all  lands,  meadowes,  pastures,  wood  lands,  Commons  &  appur 
tenances  thereunto  belonging,  heretofore  in  the*  possession  of 
one  Pomroy  or  now  or  late  in  the  possession  of  the  sayd 
Richard  Bellingham  or  his  assignes.  4.  5.  1639.  To  the  use 
of  the  said  Church.  Coram  Jo :  Knowles  &  meipo.  [Is-] 

A  bill  by  George  Minot  to  M.r  Bellingham  for  payment  of 
50H  the  last  parte  of  the  said  money  1.  8.  1639.  Dat'  4.  5. 
As  pre  coram  Johe  Knowles  &  meipo.  [6c?.] 

The  good  ship  called  the  Beaver  of  London,  M.r  George 
Mayne,  arived  here  the  22th  Junii,  1639,  and  the  passingers 
and  goods  safely  Delivered. 

I  John  Winthrop  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the 
Massachusets  bay  in  New  England  Doe  hereby  Certiiio  unto 
all  manner  of  persons  whome  it  may  any  wise  conccrnc  that 
M*  George  Maync,  Master  of  the  good  ship  called  the  Beaver 
of  London  by  the  blessing  of  All  mighty  God  arived  heere  in 
Charles  River  wth  the  said  ship  and  passingers  therein  upon 
the  twenty  second  Day  of  June  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  six  hundred  thirty  and  nyne,  and  hath  since  landed 
and  Delivered  the  passingers  and  goods  wch  he  brought  in  the 
same  ship.  In  witnesse  whereof  1  have  hereto  sett  my  hand 
the  flifth  day  of  July  Anno  Dmi.  1639.  [Is.] 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  107 

A  Bargainc  <fc  sale  by  Richard  Bulgar  to  Richard  Parker 
mcliant,  of  one  bull  calfe  of  5  moncths  old,  for  8*  8.  5. 
1639.  Coram  me. 


[70]  Bctwccne  Elizabeth  Evans  of  Bridgcnd  in  the  County 
of  Glamorgan,  and  John  Whcclewright  1  minister.  A  Cov 
enant  for  service  for  three  yeares  from  25.  of  June  last  past. 
Wages  31  p  anna  and  passage  payd  for  by  J.  W.  Dat'  5.  5. 
1639.  Coram  - 

Letter  of  Attorney  by  Thomas  Hctt  of  Ilingham  planter  to 
Licutcn'  Richard  Morris,  against  Philip  Swadden2  Dwelling 
lie-are  the  river  of  Pascattaquay  in  New  England  for  56s.  Dat' 
9.  5.  1639.  Coram  me. 


Bctwccnc  Robert  Scott3  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  haberdasher 
and  Captaine  William  Jcimisun  of  Water  Townc  in  N.  E. 
Whereas  Indentures  etc. 

Now  (fifty  pounds  to  be  payd  to  him. 

M!"  Scot  to  undertake  the  Delivery  up  of  the  said  Indenture 
or  an  affidavit,  and  to  be  bounde  in  a  bond  of  100*  ». 

1  John  Wheelwright  took  degrees  at          2  "  Philip  Swaddon,  "Watertown,  ser- 

Camliridge,  1014  and  1618,  and  carne  to  vant   of    Robert   Sully,    1030,  set   free 

New  England  1636.     He  was  banished  next  year,  on  condition  of  paying  £10 

from    the   colony,     with    his    religious  to   his  master,   was  of   Kittery,  1640  " 

friends   and    supporters,    in    1638,   and  (Savage). 

established  the  town  of  Exeter,  where          3  Robert   Scott    (see   pp.    158,   161, 

he  resided  till   1643,  when  he  removed  post).     William  Jennison  was  "captain 

to  Wells,  Me.     Four   years  later,  hav-  of  the  military  contpany  in  Watertown,  — 

ing   been    previously   reconciled  to  the  an  able  man,  who  had  been  there  from 

Massachusetts  authorities,  he  settled  at  the  first  settling  of  that  town  "  (IFinth., 

Hampton.     In    1656   he  went  to  Eng-  ii.  17(5).     He  was   the  elder  brother  of 

land,    and    remained    there    till     1662,  Robot,  who  was  the  ancestor  of  Rev. 

when  he  returned  to  New  England,  and  William  of  Salem,  Samuel  (II.  C.  1774), 

settled    at    Salisbury.      Here   he   died  Samuel  of  Worcester,  and  Samuel  (H.  C. 

Nov.  15,   1679,  aged,  it  is  said,  above  1839).     See  Bond. 
eighty  years. 


108  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Articles  of  af/reement  made  the  11'*  day  of  July  Anno  Dm* 
lu'39,  Annocp  R.  R.  Caroli  Anylice  $c.  XV°,  bctwccne 
ROIJKRT  SCOTT  of  Boston  in  New  England^  habcr  da  slier,  on 
the  lehalfe  of  RICHARD  SPITTY  of  Greys  Inne  in  the  County 
of  Midd.,  yent.,  sonne,  and  he  ire  $•  Executor  of  (he  last  will 
(f-  testament  of  RICHARD  SPITTY  of  hiah  holborne,  </ent., 
deceased,  of  the  one  parte,  and  Captaine  WILLIAM  JENNI- 
SON  of  Watertoicne  in  Neiv  England  of  the  other  parte,  as 
followeth : 

Imprimis,  iliat  tho  said  Captaine  Jonnison  shall  and  will 
presently  at  the  sealing  and  Delivery  hereof  pay  unto  the  said 
Robert  Scott,  the  siunine  of  flifty  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of 
England,  to  the  use  of  the  said  Richard  Spitty  of  Greys  Inne, 
gent.,  iu  full  Discharge  of  all  reckonings,  dcbtfe,  Dutycs  and 
Demands  whatsoever  wch  he  hath  against  the  said  Captaine 
Jennison  by  vcrtue  of  one  Indenture  of  Copartnership  made 
the  fifth  day  of  March  Anno  Dili  1G29,  bctwccnc  the  said  Cap 
taine  Jennison  of  the  one  parte  and  the  said  Richard  Spitty 
Deceased  of  the  other  partc. 

It  Hi,  that  the  said  Richard  Spitty  of  Greys  Inne,  gent.,  as 
executor  of  the  said  last  will  <fc  Testament  of  his  said  il'ather, 
shall  in  convenient  time,  as  soone  as  he  may,  make,  seale  and 
deliver  as  his  act  <t  deed  one  particularc  release  of  all  actions 
and  Demands  whatsoever  wch  he  hath  against  the  said  Capt : 
Jennison  by  vertue  of  the  said  Indenture,  to  some  person  to 
the  use  of  tho  said  Captaine  Jennison,  and  send  the  same  over 
unto  him  into  New  England. 

I  tin,  that  the  said  Richard  Spilty  of  Greys  Inne  gent,  shall 
also  in  convenient  time,  as  soone  as  he  may,  send  the  [71] 
Counterparte  of  the  said  Indenture  of  Copartnership  under 
the  hand  and  seale  of  the  said  Captaine  Jennison,  if  the  said 
Richard  Spitty  can  or  may  (hide  or  come  by  the  same,  over 
unto  the  said  Captaine  Jennison  in  New  England,  to  be 
cancelled. 

It ili,  that  the  said  Captaine  Jennison  shall  and  will  upon 
receipt  of  a  release  to  be  made  as  aforesaid  and  of  the-  said 


IJICll  FORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  100 

Countorparto  or  an  Affidavit  or  sufficient  certificate  that  ilic 
same  Conntcrpartc  hath  bin  sent  in  case  the  same  shall  bo  east 
away  or  lost  by  the  way,  make,  seale  and  deliver  as  bis  aet 
and  Deed,  one  particulare  release  of  all  actions  and  Demands 
whatsoever  wch  he  hath  against  the  said  Richard  Spitty  gent. 
as  executor  as  aforesaid,  by  vertne  of  the  said  Indenture,  nnto 
said  Robert  Scott,  or  some  other  person,  to  the  use  of  the  said 
Richard  Spitty  of  Greys  June,  gent.,  1o  be  sent  over  nnto  him 
into  England,  and  also  shall  and  will  then  deliver  unto  the 
said  Robert  Scott  the  Coiintcrpartc  of  the  said  Indenture  wch 
the  said  Captaine  Jcnnison  hath  under  the  hand  tt  scale  of  the 
said  Richard  Spitty  Deceased,  to  be,  sent  over  nnto  the  said 
Richard  Spitty  of  Greys  Inne,  to  be  cancelled. 

It  in,  that  the  said  partyes  to  these  presents  shall  presently 
enter  into  bond  of  100li  a  peece  to  each  other,  conditioned  for 
the  performance  of  the  said  former  mcm-oncd  Articles. 

In  witnesse  tvc.    Cornm.     [•>*•] 

Me  Robtnin  Scott  DC  Boston  in  N.  A.  haberdasher  tcner'  etc. 
Oapitaneo  Willo  Jennison  in  Centum  libris  Dat'  11.  Julij 
1030.  coram. 

The  Condicon  Arc.  [I-*?.] 

Me  Capit  anen  Willielmu  Jennison  do  Watcrtownc  in  N.  A. 
tencr'  etc. 

Ilobto  Scott  in  Centum  libris  Dat'  11.  5.  1G39. 
Condiconed  nt  stij)ra.     [1  •*>'•] 

One  ac(|uittancc  for  the  receipt  of  the  said  5011  by  Robert 
Scott.  11.5.  1030.  [Or?.] 

One  Release  by  the  said  Richard  Spitty  of  greys  June,  gent., 

to  be  sealed   in   England,  to  the   use   of  Captaine  Jennison. 


Osmond  Douch  l  of  Bridport  in  ye  County  of  Dorse  L,  mariner 
assigncs  to  Thomas  Bishop  of  Bridport  aforesaid  haberdasher 

1  Osmnn,  or  Osmyn,  Dutch,  as  Mr.     ords,   liad   heon   adniittod   an    inhaLit- 
Sava(£jo  gives  the  name,   from   the  roc-     ant  of    Newport    iu    1038.     From   this 


110  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

One  tenement  and  a  garden  lying  in  the  East  Streete  in  Brid- 
port  aforesaid  now  or  late  in  the  occupacon  or  possession  of 
the  said  Osmond  or  his  assigncs  wch  he  heretofore  purchased 
of  Rohert  Ward  of  Apsham  in  the  County  of  Devon  gent  to 
him  and  his  assigncs  During  the  life  of  the  said  Osmond  and 
Grace  his  wife  and  Rohert1  his  sonne,  [and  constitutes]  [72] 
John  Bishop  feltmaker  and  Richard  Hallet  carpenter  Attor 
neys  and  all  his  goods  <fe  moveahles  to  send  over  his  wife  and 
children  <tc. 

Barnaby  Davyes2  of  Charlestowne  in  N.  E.  planter  and 
Thomas  Errington3  of  the  same  planter,  bound  to  Hugh 
Courtney  merchant  in  451  12.  5.  1639,  for  payment  of  22* 
10s.  upon  the  12th  of  October  next.  [Is.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come, 
I  Osmond  Douch  of  Bridport  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  mar 
iner,  send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting,  Knowe  yce 
that  whereas  Robert  Ward  of  Apsham  in  the  county  of 
Devon,  gent.,  by  his  Deed  .Indented  under  his  hand  and  scale 
did  heretofore  Lease,  Demise,  grant  and  to  farme  let  unto  me 
the  said  Osmond  Douch  One  tenement  and  garden  with  the 
appurtenances  thereunto  belonging  now  in  the  occupation  of 

assignment,  with  the  hitter,  bond,  ami  greater  confidence  than   probability  is 

release  which  follow,  we  learn  that  his  said"  (Savage).    [T.] 

wife,  Grace,  and  his  children  were  still  l  Robert    Douch     (Dutch)    was    at 

living    at    Bridport,     Dorsetshire,     in  Gloucester,   with   wife  Alary,   in   1646. 

July,    163'J,  and  that  lie,  having  been  In    September,    1656,    Robert    Doutch 

at   some   time   in   the   employ  of  Air.  —  probably    the    same     person  —  was 

William    Hooke   (of  York,    and   after-  admitted     an     inhabitant     of     Boston 

wards  of  Salisbury),  was  now,   "since  (Town   Record1*,    i.    131),   but  did    not 

he    came    last"    to    New    England,    in  long   remain   there,  as   he  was   settled 

partnership   with  Thomas  Alilward,  of  in  Ipswich  before  Alay,  1659  (Savage). 

Noddle's  Island,  engaged  in  the  fishing  His  son  Robert,  born  1647,  was  perhaps 

trade.      In  the  bond,  executed  at  nearly  the  soldier,  of  Moseley's  company,  who 

the  same  time  with  the,  assignment  of  escaped   with    the  loss  of  his  scalp  in 

lease,    he   is   called   of    Cape   Ann,   or  King  Philip's  war.     [T.] 

Gloucester,    where    Air.    Savage    finds  2  For   ample   mention   of    Barnabas 

him,  with  wife,  Grace,  and  children,  in  Davis,  see  pp.  204  ctscqq.,post. 

1646,    and    where   lie   died    December,  8  Thomas  Errington  afterwards  was 

1684,  "aged  a  hundred  or  more,  as  with  of  Lynn. 


LECIIFOKD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  Ill 

mo  the  said  Osmond  Pouch  or  my  assigncs,  To  Have  and 
to  hold  the  said  tenement  and  garden  with  all  and  singular 
the  premises  with  the  appurtenances  unto  me  the  said  Osmond 
Pouch  or  my  assigncs,  for  and  During  the  lives  of  me  the  said 
Osmond  Pouch  and  of  (5 race  my  wife  and  Robert  my  sonne 
and  the  life  of  the  longest  liver  of  me  and  them,  under  the 
yearly  rent  and  covenants  therein  expressed,  as  by  the  said 
Peed  indented  the  more  at  large  it  Poth  and  may  appear. 
Now  1  the  said  Osmond  Pouch  for  good  causes  and  Considera 
tions  me  thereunto  moving  Poc  by  these  presents  grant, 
assignc  and  sett  over  unto  Thomas  Bishop  of  Bridport  afore 
said,  haberdasher,  the  said  Tenement  and  garden  wth  the 
appurtenances  and  all  my  right  title  interest  clayme  and 
Pcniand  of  in  and  to  the  same  and  every  part  thereof 
together  wth  the  said  Indenture  of  Lease,  To  have  and  to 
hold  the  said  Tenement  <fe  garden  and  all  and  singular  the 
premises  with  the  appurtenances  unto  him  the  said  Thomas 
Bishop  and  his  assignes  for  and  during  the  lives  of  me  the 
said  Osmond  Pouch  and  the  said  Grace  my  wife  and  Robert 
my  sonnc  and  the  life  of  the  longest  liver  of  me  and  them. 
And  1  the  said  Osmond  Pouch  hereby  constitute  ordaine  and 
appoint  my  wcllbeloved  ffriend  John  Bishop  of  Bridport  afore 
said  feltmaker  [73]  and  Richard  Hallet  of  the  same  carpen 
ter,  my  true  and  lawful  Attorneys  jointly  or  severally  for  me 
and  in  my  name  into  the  premises  to  enter  and  thereof  full 
and  peacable  possession  and  seisin  to  take  and  after  full  and 
peacable  possession  thereof  so  had  &  taken  full  and  peacable 
possession  livery  and  seisin  thereof  for  me  and  in  my  name 
to  Deliver  over  unto  the  said  Thomas  Bishop  To  have  and 
to  hold  the  premises  <fc  every  part  thereof  unto  him  the  said 
Thomas  Bishop  and  his  assignes  according  to  the  purpose 
true  intent  and  meaning  of  these  presents  Ratefying  and 
allowing  all  &  whatsoever  my  said  Attorneys  or  cither  of 
them  shall  lawfully  Poc  in  the  premises  And  also  I  the  said 
Osmond  Pouch  ffor  and  in  consideration  of  six  pence  to  me  in 
hand  payd  by  the  said  Thomas  Bishop  Po  hereby  grant  bar- 
gainc  and  sell  unto  the  said  Thomas  Bishop  all  my  goods  and 
chattclls  reall  and  personall  movcablc  and  immoveable  what- 


Hk2  LKCIIVORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-UOOK. 

soever  in  Kn  gland  To  have  and  to  hold  the  same  to  him  the 
said  Thomas  Bishop  his  executors  administrators  and  assignos 
for  ever.  In  wituessc,  etc.  Coram  Guhcrnatorc  nro.  Tho ; 
Mill  ward  <fc  meipo.  [3s.  Gd.~\ 

(lond  wile,  my  love  remembered  to  you  in  the  Lord,  These 
arc  to  lett  you  understand  that  (Jod  he  prayscd  I  am  well  in 
health  heere  in  this  Country  at  the  time  of  the  writing  this 
letter,  p.nd  so  I  hope  are  you  in  health  together  with  our  Chil 
dren.  Scing  it  hath  pleased  Cod  to  hlessc  me  heere  in  this 
land  sinee  1  came  last,  I  thaiikc  God,  1  have  cleared  -401  and 
shall  he  able  to  make  good  provision  for  to  intertainc  you  & 
my  children,  as  1  hope  in  the  Lord.  Therefore  I  desire  you 
would  by  all  meanes  come  over  to  me  wtu  the  children  by  the 
f[all]  or  as  soone  as  you  can  the  next  spring:  To  that  cud  and 
purpose  I  have  hercinclosed  sent  you  an  Assiguement  of  the 
house  and  thcrin  a  deed  of  gift  also  of  the  goods,  sealed 
before  our  honoured  Govcrnor,  wherewithal!  I  have  intrusted 
yor  kinsman  Mf  Thomas  Bishop,  the  haberdasher,  whome  1 
Doe  intreate  to  sell  the  house  at  as  good  advantage  as  he  can 
and  such  of  the  goods  as  arc  not  iitt  for  transportation,  and 
wth  the  money  to  make  provision  for  yor  comining,  for  clothes 
for  yorselfe  A;  the  children,  &  for  some  refreshments  by  the 
way,  and  for  yor  passage  :  Of  the  goods  that  you  have  there- 
wthyou  sell  not  any  brasse,  pewter,  bedding  nor  linnen:  but 
furnish  yorselfe  wtb  these  as  well  as  you  can.  And  if  you 
want  any  thing  more  to  come  forth,  or  to  make  yor  better  pro 
vision,  then  I  shall  take  order  wth  my  partner  M'  Millard  1 

1  Thomns  Mihvard  was  probably  the  ton  ml    at    Newbury,    where   he    was   a 

"pilot  ami  mute  to  Mr.  Fearne,  in  the  proprietor    (Collin's  Ncicburu,  pp.   'J'J, 

'Hector,'"  whose  denuiKjiation  of  the  ol,  310);   but  in  September,   103U,  he 

people  of  Massachusetts  as  "all  rebels  wa-,    granted    land    in    Boston    (Town 

and  traitors,"  because  they  had  not  the  J!<-cor<lst  p.   42),  and  in  August  of  the 

King's  Hag  at  the  fort,   brought  upon  following  year  de>cribed   himself,  in   a 

him  the  censure  of  the  Court,  in  June,  deposition    taken    by    Lcehford,    as    of 

1636   (.}f'<.^.     liccords,    i.    170,     178;  Cape  Ann,  aged  forty  years.      He  died 

IVinth..,  i.  187).  In  \\\c  Records  the  name  in  Boston  in  1653.     Neither  Pouch  nor 

is  written  Miller,  Millerd,  and  Millard ;  Mihvard    appears    to    have     had    any 

by  Winthrop,  Miller.   Shortly  afterwards  place    of    settled    residence    in     1631). 

"Mr.  Thomas  Mihvard,  mariner,"  was  They  carried   on    the    fishery    at   Cape 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  113 

[74]  of  Noddill's  Island,  who  is  my  partner  in  the  fishing 
trade  wch  we  now  are  setting  upon,  that  lie  sluill  deale  with 
Mr  Maurice  Tompson,1  merchant,  Dwelling  at  [/</«»«/.-]  in  Lon 
don,  to  send  yon  what  money  you  k  Mr  Bishop  shall  thinke 
will  be  further  ncedfull,  besides  the  money  to  be  made  of  the 
house  ct  household  implements  not  litt  to  bring  in  the  ship. 
And  you  are  to  send  Mr  Tompson  this  inclosed  letter  and 
note  under  Mf  Miller's  hand,  and  lie  will  send  you  downe  the 
money  by  the  carrier.  You  must  take  care  that  by  the  way 
you  may  have  some  refreshments  besides  the  ships  provision 
for  yorselfe  and  my  children  :  that  is,  some  sugcr  and  fine 
ruskc  or  bisket,  and  a  little  barrcll  of  ale  to  make  warme 
mcatc,  and  oatmcale  &  currants  &  a  little  spice,  and  some  fine 
flower  £  eggs,  &  a  few  chickens  wth  a  hcnne  or  two,  and  a 
little  butter  &  honey.  If  you  cannot  come  by  Wcy  mouth, 
then  come  by  Bristoll  wth  one  M5  TIazzard  to  whomc  I  have 
allready  spoken.  [Is.  6f?.] 

[From  the   beginning  of  page  74  io  the   end  of  this  entry 
seems  to  have  been  crossed  out,  but  nothing  substituted  there- 


Novrint  univV  <p  prsentes  me  Matheum  Allyn  TV,  Hertford 
sup  ihimen  DC  Kcnnccticot'  in  America  gen',  ten'  et  firmit1 
obligar1  Ilumphrie'  Hooke  Civi  ct  Aldermanno  Civitat'  Bris- 

Ann    and    along    tlie    coast,    probably  pounds,  for  which  service  they  received 

in  partnership  with,  or  in  the  employ  the  thanks  of  both  Houses  of  Parliament. 

of,   Mr.    Maverick,  of  Noddle's   Island.  lie  is  mentioned  in  Strypes'  edition  of 

[T.]  Stowc's  Surrey  of  London,  as  the  person 

1  This  was  probably  Maurice  Thomp-  who,  by  his  own  bounty  and  application 

son,  a  London   merchant,  who  was  gov-  toothers,  principally  advanced  the  build- 

ernor  of  the  East  India  Company  in  the  ing  of  the  Chapel  at  Poplar  in  1653" 

time  of  Charles  I.      "In  or  about  the  (GWh'n.s).     His  son,  Sir  John  Thompson, 

year    1047    he   Avcnt    over  to    Holland,  was  created    P.aron   llaversham   May  4, 

with  two  or  three  other  commissioners,  1606.     Maurice  Thompson  was  probably 

to    solicit   the   States-General  for  some  the  person  mentioned  by  Winthrop  in 

relief  for  the  many  distressed  Protestant  1639  (Jnir.r'iin?,  i.  307^  as  having  begun 

families  in  Ireland  that  had  been  plun-  a  fishing  trade  at  Cape   Ann.      In   the 

dered  or  ruined  in  the  war  ;  and  having  Ilisf.  and  dnic.nl.   7.W/.    for  July,  1884 

obtained   leave  of  the  States  to  collect  (vol.    xxxviii.    p.   318),   may  be    found 

voluntary   contributions,   they  brought  many  interesting  details  in   regard  to 

from  thence  above  thirty-one  thousand  himself  and  his  family. 

.8 


114  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

toll'  in  2501  flat'  18  Julij,  1639,  curam  Will0  Hooke,  Samuel' 
Mavericke  ct  rncip0. 

Conditioned  for  the  payment  of  200U  upon  3  bills  of 
exchange  by  Roger  Dellbridge  of  Barnstablc  in  Devon, 
merchant.  [Is.] 

Me  Osmond  u  Pouch  DC  Capaj  Anna)  in  nova  Anglia,  nauta 
tencr'  ct  firmitr  obligar'  Will0  Hooke  mercatori  in  40 1»,  Dat' 
18.  5.  1639,  coram  Tho  :  Milward  &  meipo. 

Condiconcd  for  the  payment  of  20U  to  Mf  Hooke  at  M! 
Maverick's  house  in  Nodill's  Island  17  Julij.  prx°.  [Is.  Qd.~\ 

A  Release  by  Mr  Williii  Ilooke  to  Osmond  Douch  for  undu- 
tifull  Departure  from  his  service,  wth  a  boate,  18.  5.  1639, 
coram  Tho  :  Milward  &  meipo.  [vj  d.~] 

Two  letters  for  Mr!9  Bittgood.1     [2s.] 

[75]  JAMES  BnocKE2  of  Ratdiffe  in  the  county  of  Midd. 
mariner,  pi',  JOSEPH  BACHELLER  of  Salem,  Defend*,  in  an 
accon  of  Account. 

IN  A  PARTICULARS  COURT  18.  5.  1639. 

The  Plaintiffe  sheweth  that  whereas  the  said  Defend1  here 
tofore  stood  accountable  unto  Henry  Paramor  of  the  Isle  of 
Thanct  in  the  County  of  Kent  gent.,  for  a  certainc  stocke  of 
one  hundred  and  sixty  pounds  and  the  profits  thereof  intrusted 
by  the  said  Henry  Paramor  unto  the  Defendant  in  or  about 
the  moneth  of  Aprill  in  the  ycare  of  our  Lord  1637,  to  be 
imploycd  by  the  defend1  for  the  benefitt  of  the  said  Henry 

1  "Bidgood,     or    Betgood,     Boston  tries  in  the  Note-book  he  seems  to  have 
mevclmnt,  from  Romsey  in  Hants,  carne  been  in  New  England  in  1636,  when  he 
in  the  'Confidence'  from  Southampton,  was  at  certain  charges  for  the  expedition 
1638;   was  of  Ipswich,    1642"     (Sav-  against   Block    Island    in    the    Pequot 
age).     [T.  ]  war,  as  appears  from  pages  99  and  109, 

2  James  Brockc  does  not  appear  in  post.     For  further  account  of  this  action 
Savage  ;   as    is  natural  enough,  for   he  against   Bachcllcr,  see  pages  100,   103, 
cannot  have  spent  any  very  consider-  and  115,  post.. 

able  time  in  New  England.     From  en- 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  115 

Paramor  and  the  Defend*  to  have  reasonable  allowance  for 
his  labour  &  paines  therein,  The  said  Henry  Paramor  Did 
upon  the  xxvith  Day  of  ffcbruary  last  past  assignc  the  said 
stocke  <fc  pHtts  thereof  unto  the  Plaintiffc,  whereby  the 
Defend1  now  standeth  accountable  unto  him  the  said  Plain 
tiffc  for  the  same.  Now  the  said  Plaintiffc  chargeth  the 
Defendant  in  manner  &  forme  following,  Imprimis,  wth  the 
prolitts  of  the  goods  and  merchandize  bought  wth  the  said 
principall  money,  wch  goods  <fc  merchandize  and  profits  thereof 
the  pi*  Doth  not  knowo,  therefore  he  requireth  that  the 
Defend*  sett  forth  upon  his  oath  what  the  said  goods  &  mer 
chandize  were  and  what  profitts  he  made  of  them. 

Itm,  with  the  kine  wch  the  Defend*  brought  over  into  New 
England  and  reserved  for  a  parte  of  the  said  stoeke,  and 
because  the  Plaintiffc  doth  not  knowe  how  many  or  what  kine 
the  said  Defend*  Did  bring  over,  nor  how  many  calves  they 
have  brought  forth  since,  the  PI*  requireth  that  the  Defend* 
set  forth  the  same  upon  his  oath.  Itm,  w*h  three  other  kyne 
bought  the  last  ycare  and  three  calves  wch  they  have  since 
brought  forth.  I  tin,  wth  the  money  rayscd  upon  sale  of  one 
house  &  lands  thereto  belonging  lying  in  Dorchester,  bought 
heretofore  for  the  said  Henry  Paramor  and  the  profits  thereof 
since  ;  and  because  the  Plaintiffe  knowcth  not  how  long  the 
said  house  &  lands  were  in  the  said  Defend*9  mannaging  for 
the  said  Henry  Paramor,  nor  what  profitts  have  bin  by  the 
Def*  made  thereof,  the  Plaintiffe  requircth  that  the  Defend* 
set  the  same  forth  upon  his  oath.  And  the  Plaintiffe  is  ready 
to  allow  the  Defend*  all  his  reasonable  charges  and  Disburse 
ments  and  for  his  labour  and  payncs  about  the  premises  as 
this  Court  shall  award.  And  for  the  said  stocke  <fc  clcare 
proflitts  thereof  as  the  same  shall  appeare  upon  this  account 
to  be  made  betweene  the  said  partyes,  the  PI*  brings  this 
suit. 

It iii,  wth  the  summe  of  fforty  five  pounds  in  money,  part 
of  the  said  stocke,  wch  the  Defend*  had  in  his  hands  or 
by  his  direction  in  the  hands  of  some  others  accountable  to 
himsclfe,  about  the  8th  Day  of  October,  last  past.  [Vacat 
2*.  Grf.] 


116  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


[76]  JOHN  BOURNE  of  Wapping  in  the  county  of  Midd.  mar 
iner,  pi',  and  [fc/un£]  HAWKINS,1  of  Dorchester,  and  NICHO 
LAS  HEWETT  of  the  same,  shipivriyht,  Defend1*, 

IN   THE   PARTICULAR   COURT,    18.  5.  1639. 

The  Plaintiffe  by  James  Brockc  liis  attorney  shewcth  that 
whereas  the  Defend*  Nicholas  Hcwett  borrowed  of  the  Plain 
tiffe  for  the  use  of  himselfe  and  the  Defend4  [6/anfc]  Hawkins, 
the  summc  of  tenne  pounds  in  or  about  the  fourth  moncth  in 
the  yeare  of  our  Lord,  1688,  the  Defend19  nor  either  of  them 
hath  not  payd  the  sayd  tenne  pounds  unto  the  Pltiffe  although 
they  have  been  required  so  to  Doe,  To  the  Dammage  of  the 
PI1  twenty  shillings  over  &  above  the  said  Debt,  whereupon  he 
brings  his  suit. 

[From  "beginning  of  page,  76  to  the  end  of  this  entry  seems  to 
be  crossed  outJ\ 

Nos  Samuclc'  Mavericke  De  Nodill's  Insula  in  N.  A.  g',  et 
Thoma  Dexter  De  Lynne  in  N.  A.  yeoman,  tener'  &c.  Will0 
Hooke  mercator,  in  800H  Dat'  16.  5.  1639. 

Condiconed  for  payment  of  4361  upon  the  16th  Day  January 
next  ensuin  £c.  Is. 


To  all  Christian  People  &c.  Nicholas  Parker  of  Boston  in 
N.  E.  and  Richard  Parker2  of  the  same,  merchant,  for  102H 
Doe  grant,  bargaine  and  sell  unto  William  Cheney  of  Roxbury 
in  New  E.  [Wa»fc]  all  that  their  Dwelling  house  and  home 
lott  situate  in  Roxbury  aforesaid,  betweene  the  house  of  Mr 
Welles,3  Pastor  of  the  Church  there,  on  the  north  side  and 

1  -   —  Hawkins  I  suppose  to  be  Cap-          2  See  note  on  p.  42,  ante.   [T.] 
tain  Thomas  Hawkins,  of  Dorchester,  a          8  For  an  account  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 

shipmaster  and  .shipbuilder.     For  some  Wcltlo,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Roxbury, 

account    of    him,    see    note,    p.    122.  see  the  Hist,  and  Genial.  fie<j.t  xxxvi. 

Whether  John  Bourne,  of  Wapping,  was  36.     A  catalogue  of  his  library  is  printed 

any  relation  to  Nehemiah  Bourne,  the  in   the  same  volume   (p.   371),   as   are 

shipbuilder  of  Dorchester  and  Boston,  other  matters  of   interest    relating  to 

is  a  question   of  some  little  interest,  him. 
See  p.  127,  post. 


LECHFOIWS   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  117 

the  house  of  [&/a»&]  Webb  on  the  south  side,  and  forty  acres 
of  land  and  pasture  &  wooddy  ground  thereto  belonging  wth 
the  appurtences  whatsoever,  situate  and  being  in  Uoxbury 
aforesayd,  Habenduin  to  the  said  Will111  Cheney,  his  heires 
and  assignes  for  ever.  Pat.  18.  5.  1081).  [Is.  6d.] 

HENRY  PARAMOR  of  the  Isle  of  Thanctt  in  the  County  of  Kent 

gent.    Plaintiffe. 

JOSEPH  BACHELLER  of  Salem  in  New  England  planter,  Defend1. 
In  an  accon  of  account. 

ATT  A  PARTICULARE  COURT  AT  BOSTON,  18.  5.  1G39. 

The  plaintiffe  requireth  that  the  Defend1  instly  and  with 
out  delay  render  unto  him  the  said  plaintiffe  his  reasonable 
account  from  the  time  that  he  was  the  bayliffe  &  receiver  of 
the  money  goods  and  chattells  of  the  Pltiffe  both  in  England 
and  New  England  And  the  plaintiffe  saith  that  in  or  about  the 
moneth  of  Aprill  Anno  Dili  1637,  he  Delivered  unto  the  Deft 
[77]  one  stocke  of  the  sunime  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
pounds  in  England  wherewithall  .the  Defendt  was  Directed 
by  the  pit  &  did  undertake  to  buy  divers  goods  &  chattells 
and  the  samq.to  cause  to  be  transported  into  New  England 
and  there  to  imploye  the  same  for  the  profitt  and  advantage 
of  the  Plaintiffe  and  because  the  pit  Doth  not  knowe  what 
the  said  goods  and  chattells  were  nor  what  profitts_  the 
Defendt  made  of  them  the  pit  requireth  that  the  Defendt  set 
forth  the  same  upon  his  oath.  And  the  Defendt  brought  over 
into  New  England  certaine  kyne  and  reserved  them  for  a 
parte  of  the  said  stocke  and  because  the  plaintiffe  Doth  not 
knowe  how  many  or  what  kyne  the  said  Defendt  Did  bring 
over  nor  how  many  calves  they  have  brought  forth  since  the 
pit  requireth  that  the  Defendt  sett  forth  the  same  upon  his 
oath  And  also  the  Defendt  bought  three  other  kyne  the  last 
yeare  for  parte  of  the  said  stocke  wch  brought  forth  three 
calves  since  And  the  Defendt  raysed  above  fifty  and  nyne 
pounds  by  the  occupying  and  sale  of  one  house  and  lands 
thereto  belonging  lying  in  Dorchester  in  New  England  bought 
heretofore  by  the  deft  for  the  Pit  as  parte  of  the  said  stocke 


118  LECllFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

And  because  the  Pit  knowoth  not  how  long  the  sayd  house  & 
lands  were  in  the  dci'endts  managing  for  the  pit  nor  what 
other  profitts  certainly  the  Deft  made  thereof  the  pit  requireth 
that  the  Defendt  set  the  same  forth  upon  his  oath  And  also 
the  Defendt  on  or  about  the  8th  Day  of  October  last  past  had 
forty  and  five  pounds  more  parte  of  the  said  stocke  in  his 
ovvne  hands  or  in  the  hands  of  some  others  accountable  to 
himselfe.  And  the  Pit  is  ready  to  allowe  the  Defendt  his  reas 
onable  charges  and  Disbursements  and  for  his  labour  and 
pay nes  about  the  premises  as  this  Court  shall  awarde  and 
therefore  the  Pit  prayeth  that  he  may  have  restored  unto  him 
his  said  goods  and  chattells  and  moneys  remayniug  in  the 
Defendts  hands  to  such  value  and  in  kinde  as  the  same  shall 
appeare  upon  this  account  to  be  made  and  thereupon  he 
bringes  his  suit.  [2s.  6c?.] 

19  Julii,  1G39.  Thomas  Rucke  of  Charlestowne  in  New 
England  planter,  aged  about  48  yeares,  maketh  oath  that 
Divers  goods  and  chattels  of  his  viz*,  bedds  and  bedding 
and  other  household  implements,  meate,  butter,  cheese,  salt, 
wheate,  malt,  and  rye ;  stuffes,  fustians,  Canvas,  bed  tykes, 
working  tooles,  Iron  ware,  Oatemeale,  bootes,  shooes,  and 
leather,  linsey  woolscy,  brassc,  pewter  and  iron  potts ;  wch 
were  put  up  in  foure  chests,  three  butts,  one  dryfatt,  one 
powdering  tubb,  two  packes,  three  kilderkins;  one  bundle  of 
spitts,  curtaine  rodds  and  gunncs ;  six  barrells  and  tcnne 
hogsheads  ;  contcyning  in  all  about  Six  hundred  and  halfe, 
that  were  delivered  at  Maiden,  in  Essex  into  an  Ipswich 
Hye,  were  all  shipt  into  the  good  ship  the  Castle  of  [78]  of 
London  in  the  moneth  of  Aprill,  Anno  Dmi.  1G38,  at  London 
and  were  all  afterwards  safely  transported  &  brought  in  the 
said  ship  to  New  England,  and  there  safely  Delivered  forth 
unto  the  said  Deponents  hands  in  the  moneth  of  July  in  the 
yeare  aforesaid,  according  to  the  cocket  made  thereof  at 
Maiden  aforesaid.  [!«•] 

Thomas  Ashley  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England  servant  of 
Thomas  Rucke  of  the  same,  aged  about  26  yeares,  maketh 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  119 

oath  that  he  hath  heard  read  the  affidavit  of  the  said  Thomas 
Ruckc  concerning  the  shipping  and  transportation  of  his 
goods  into  New  England,  and  he  this  Depon1  vcrcly  bclcivcth 
tho  same  to  be  true  in  all  points,  for  that  he  was  the  said 
Thomas  Ruck's  servant  before  he  came  forth  of  England,  and 
is  still,  and  this  Depon*  knowcth  that  all  the  vessclls  and 
packcs  and  bundell  mentioned  in  the  said  aflidav*  were  safely 
Delivered  to  his  said  master  forth  of  the  good  ship  the  castle 
of  London,  at  Charlestownc,  aforesaid,  about  this  time  twelve- 
moncths  since. 

John  Winthrop  Esq*  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  to  \*  Ilonoble  the  Lord 
Clicifc  Baron  and  the  rest  of  the  Barons  of  His  Matics  Court 
of  Excheqr  and  to  all  his  Mats  Customers  and  other  officers 
whome  it  may  concernc  greeting  Kno\vc  ycc  that  upon  the 
nyneteenth  Day  of  July  in  the  fifteenth  ycare  of  the  raignc  of 
our  Soveraignc  Lord  Charles  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of 
England  Scotland  France  and  Ireland  Defender  of  the  ffaith 
&c.  Thomas  Ruckc  of  Charlcstowne  in  New  England  Planter 
came  before  me  and  tooke  his  corporall  oath  in  these  words 
scilt  Thomas  Rucke  &c. 

All  wch  at  the  spcciall  instance  and  request  of  the  said 
Thomas  Rucke  I  have  thought  good  to  certifye  aad  in  testi 
mony  thereof  have  caused  the  Common  Scale  of  our  Colony 
to  be  hereunto  affixed  the  22.  Day  of  July  in  the  yeare 
aforesayd. 

22.  5.  1G39. 

Abraham  Hawkins  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England,  ser 
vant  of  Thomas  Rucke  of  the  same,  aged  about  28  years 
maketh  oath  pnt  supra  p  Tho.  Ashley  [6] 

[79]  Wee  whose  names  are  hereunder  written  Arbitrators 
indifferently  chosen  by  &  betwcenc  James  Brockc  Mariner 
Atturney  for  Henry  Paramor  gent  and  Joseph  Bachcllcr  of 
Salem  planter  for  the  ending  and  awarding  of  all  matters  in 
Difference  betweene  the  said  partyes  Doe  hereby  Declare  that 
we  fynde  that  the  said  Joseph  Bacheller  received  of  the  said 


120  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Henry  Paramor  the  summc  of  One  hundred  and  sixty  pounds 
to  mannage  for  the  said  Henry  Paramor  according  to  the  best 
skill  and  abilities  of  the  said  Joseph  wch  said  summc  hath 
bin  accordingly  mannuged  by  the  said  Joseph  as  appeareth  by 
his  account  upon  oath  made  before  our  honoured  governo1". 
Now  the  said  James  Brooke  not  being  able  to  disprove  (nor 
we  the  said  Arbitrators  neither)  anything  conteyned  in  the 
said  account  Therefore  we  Doe  thinke  it  mecte  and  Doe 
thus  order  and  award  betwcene  the  said  partyes  viz1.  That 
whereas  the  account  of  the  principal!  together  wth  the  produce 
thereof  amounteth  to  the  summc  of  two  hundred  and  scavcn 
pounds  and  fifteene  shillings  according  to  the  estimation  and 
account  returned  by  the  said  Joseph  in  cattell  money  and 
some  iron,  the  said  Joseph  shall  presently  surrender  the  same 
stocke  into  the  hands  of  the  said  James  Bruckc  for  the  use 
of  the  said  Henry  Paramor  his  executors  administrators  & 
assignes.  And  we  Doc  allowe  unto  the  said  Joseph  for  his 
Sallarie  and  factoric  therein  after  the  rate  of  five  pounds  <p 
Centri  upon  the  said  principal!  from  the  twentieth  Day  of  July 
Anno  Dni  1G37  uutill  this  present  Day  wch  amounteth  unto 
sixteene  pounds  And  that  the  said  Henry  Paramor  shall 
Discharge  all  rates  imposed  or  to  be  imposed  upon  the  said 
stocke.  Witncssc  our  hands  as  well  as  the  hands  of  the  said 
partyes  hereunto  sett  the  twentith  day  of  July  Anno  Dni 
1639. 

^  EDWARD  Gi  BONES. 

\\  itnesses  hereunto  M,  T^ 

,,r  ,,  THOMAS  RUCKE. 

JOHN  WiNxnaoi-  Coy     .  JAMBJ 


)  JOSEPH  BACHELLER. 

[38.] 

Articles  betwcene  James  Brockc  on  the  behalfe  of  Henry 
Parrain?  <fc  Js.  Bachellcr.  1.  Joseph  Bach,  undertakes  &  Cov 
enants  that  the  stocke  &  produce  thereof  mentioned  in  the 
account  is  such  <fc  of  such  value  as  in  the  said  account  is 
spccifyed.  2.  It  is  agreed  That  he  shall  mannage  <t  improve 
the  said  stocke  [80]  one  yearc  more  viz*,  from  this  present 
Day  20.  Julij  1039  and  shall  in  the  end  render  a  just  account 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  121 

thereof  it  deliver  up  tlio  same  to  the  said  Henry  Parumor  & 
his  assigncs.  3.  Tliat  lie  the  said  Joseph  Bacheller  shall 
Deduct  o'l  out  of  the  said  money  parto  of  the  said  stockc  for 
parte  of  his  salhiry  tt  factory  in  it  about  the  said  siocke  untill 
this  present  Day  according  to  the  award.  5.  That  he  shall 
have  for  his  sallary  and  factorage  about  the  said  stockc  for 
ihe  yearc  ensuing  as  he  shall  reasonably  deserve.  4.  That 
whereas  also  according  to  the  award  J.  15.  is  to  have  1011 
more  for  his  sallary  &  he  shall  take  the  same  cither  out 
of  the  said  stockc  or  of  M?  Sharpc  as  M^  Paramor  shall 
require. 

Articles  of  Covenant  &  agreement  indented  made  ihc  twcntith  day 
of  July  Anno  Dni  1639  bctwcciic  JAMES  BROOKE  Mariner 
on  Ihc  behalf e  of  HENRY  PAKAMOR  gent  of  the  one  parte  & 
JOSEPH  BACIIELLER  of  Sal  m  Planter  of  the  other  parte  as 
folhncdh. 

Imprimis  the  said  Joseph  Bachcllcr  doth  hereby  Covenant 
wth  the  said  Henry  Paramor  that  the  stocke  wth  the  produce 
thereof  mentioned  in  one  account  under  the  hand  it  upon 
oath  of  the  said  Joseph  made  this  present  Day  is  such  it  of 
such  value  as  in  the  said  account  is  specifycd. 

Itin  It  is  agreed  by  it  bctwecne  the  sayd  partves  that  the 
sayd  Joseph  shall  inannagc  and  improve  the  said  stocke  it 
produce  from  this  present  Day  for  the  space  of  one  yea  re  fully 
to  be  compleatc  to  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  said  Henry 
Paramor  and  his  assigncs  and  in  the  end  of  the  said  terme 
shall  render  a  just  account  thereof  and  of  the  meane  proiitts 
thereof  and  the  same  deliver  up  unto  the  said  Henry  Paramor 
it  his  assignes. 

Km  that  the  said  Joseph  Bacheller  shall  Deduct  six  pounds 
out  of  the  money  parte  of  the  said  stocke  for  parte  of  his 
sallary  and  factory  in  and  about  the  said  stockc  allowed 
unto  him  by  the  award  betwecnc  the  said  partves  made  this 
present  Day. 

It  Hi  That  whereas  also  according  to  the  said  award  [81]  the 
said  Joseph  Bacheller  is  to  have  tcnne  pounds  more  for  his 
sallary  and  factory  he  shall  take  the  same  either  out  of  any 


12:2  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

moneys  partc  of  the  sayd  stockc  or  of  M?  Sharpe  as  the  said 
Henry  Param?   shall  require. 

I  tin  that  the  said  Joseph  Bachcller  shall  have  for  his  sal- 
lary  &  factory  about  the  said  stocke  for  this  yeare  ensuing  as 
he  shall  reasonably  deserve.  In  witnesse.  Samuel  Hutchinso 
&  myselfe.  [2s. 


Me  Josephum  Baeheller  De  Salem  in  N.  A.  Plantatorem 
tencr'  <fcc.  Jaeobo  Brocke  in  trecentis  &  quinquaginta  libris 
<fcc.  Dat'  20.  5.  1G39.  Coram  Samuel  Hutchinson  &  meipo. 

Condiconed  for  performance  of  the  said  articles  on  his  pte. 


The  account  of  JOSEPH  BAGHELLER  of  Salem  in  Neiv  England 
Planter,  made  unto  JAMES  BROOKE,  Atturney  for  HENRY 
PARAMOR  gent,  the  x.vth  day  of  July,  Anno  Dni.  1639. 

The  said  Joseph  Bacheller  received  of  M?    Paramor  in  England 

about  Aprill,  10:57     ...............      1G01 

Tliis  accountant  Delivered  to  M.  Willard  in  money  and  com 

modities  and  corne  about  July,   1G37     ........       110* 

Wherewithall  certaine  lands  at  Concord  were  purchased  for  Mr 
Paramor,  uch  were  again  e  sold  or  lest  and  the  moneys  for  the 
most  parte  returned  to  this  accountant  in  July,  1G38, 

This  accountant  also  bought  an  house  and  land  at  Dorchester  for 
M?  Paramor,  and  kept  the  same  one  yeare  and  above  and 
then  sold  it  for  ................  51  1 

The  present  stocke  as  it  cost.      The   improvement   as  it  is 
ivorth  now. 

One  blacke  co\ve    .......  22*  ......  251 

One  browne  cowe     ......  22  ......  25  1 

One  blacke  cowe       ......  20  ......  25  1 

One  blacke  hayfer     ......  20  ......  23  1 

One  yeareling  blacke  cowe  calfe     .13  ......  141 

One  December  steere  calfe     ...  04  ......  051 

One  red  Lull  calfe     ......  03  .......  03  1 

Fower  ewe  goats  &  one  ewe  kidd     .09  ......  001   10« 

In  the  house  at  Dorchester      ...  18  ......  20* 

In  M*  Sharpes  hands  to  stay  the  )  JQ  ^l 

sale  of  his  farme,  > 

The  plough  irons     ......  31  12»       ....  3»  12" 

MT   Willard   reteynes  for   a   rate    .  21  ......  2» 

Payd  for  keeping  the  calves    ...  0.  15  a        ....  0.  0 


[Carried  forward 1651  28] 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  123 

[Brourjld  forward 1G5*  29] 

[82]             One   red   co we  calfe        10 1 

One  blacke  steere  calfe 4  * 

One  blacke  cowe  calfe 10 1 

One  yoares   rent   for   the  house  at  -» 

Dorchester,  20s  more  being  pay 'd  L    ....  061 
out  upon  the  house,                           J 

Remayning  in  my  hands  more 12*    13s   < 

Sum  total 2075    15«  j 

JOSEPH  BACIIELLER. 

The  said  accountant  deposeth  upon  his  oath  that  this  is  his  true  account 
the  Day  and  yeare  abovesayd,  before 

Jo:  WINTIIHOP  Gov 

of  the  Massachusetts 
["2s."]  hi  New  England. 

A  coppy  of  the  exemplification  of  M*  Ruck's  affidavit  to 
send  to  Kcnnccticot,  20.  5.  1639.  [Is.  Gti] 

1  This  Indenture  made  the  Twenty  second  Day  of  the  fTifth 
moneth  Anno  Dili  1039.  One  thousand  six  hundred  thirty 
and  nync.  Bctwcene  Thomas  Purchase 2  of  Pagiscott  gent 
of  the  one  partc  And  John  Winthrop  Esq?  Governed  of  the 
Massachusetts  on  the  behalf c  of  himselfe  the  Governor  and 
Companie  of  the  Massachusetts  aforcsayd  of  the  other  parte 
Witnf'sseth  that  the  said  Thomas  for  Divers  good  Causes  and 
Considerations  him  thereunto  moving  hath  given  and  granted 
and  by  these  presents  Doth  give  and  grant  unto  the  said  John 
Winthrop  and  his  successors  the  Governor  and  Company  of 
the  Massachusetts  for  ever  All  that  tracte  of  land  at  Pagis 
cott  aforesaid  upon  both  sydcs  of  the  river  of  Androscoggin 
being  foure  miles  square  towards  the  sea  with  all  libcrtyes  and 
privileges  thereunto  belonging  so  as  they  may  plant  the  same 
wth  an  English  Colony  when  they  shall  see  (itt  And  shall 

1  This  conveyance,  or  release,  is  re-  change  of  the  name  from  Ameriscoggin 
corded  in  Mass.  Col.  Kcc.,  i.  272,  273.  to  Androscoggin,  in  honor  of  Sir  Ed 
it  will  be  observed  that  in  the  draught,  mund  Andros,  — who  came  first  to  New 
as  in  the  record,  the  name  of  the  river  England  in  1686.  [T.] 
is  written  Androscoggin.  This  fact  2  Thomas  Purchase  ;  see  p.  219, 
sufficiently  disposes  of  the  story  of  the  note. 


124  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

have  as  full  power  for  ever  to  exercise  Jurisdiction  there  as  they 
have  in  the  Massachusetts  Provided  that  the  interest  and  pos 
session  of  such  lands  as  the  said  Thomas  now  uscth  or  shall 
make  use  of  for  his  owne  stocke  and  improvement  wtbin 
scavcu  ycares  next  ensuing  the  Date  hereof  shall  be  and 
remayne  to  the  sayd  Thomas  and  his  heires  and  assigncs  for 
ever  under  the  Jurisdiction  aforesaid  And  as  well  the  said 
Thomas  himseli'c  and  his  family  and  his  heires  and  assignes 
as  all  other  the  Inhabitants  upon  the  said  lands  are  for  ever 
to  be  under  the  due  protection  of  the  said  Governo*  and 
Company  by  order  of  the  gcnerall  Co^  as  other  Inhabitants 
of  the  same  Jurisdiction  are.  This  grant  by  approbation  of 
the  said  Gcnerall  Co?  to  be  recorded  &  exemplified  under 
the  Comon  seal  otherwise  to  be  voyd  In  witnesse  whereof  the 
partycs  abovcsaid  have  hereunto  interchangeably  sett  their 
hands  £  scales  the  Day  and  yeare  first  above  written.  Coram 
Stepho  Winthrop  meipo  Amos  Richardson.  [3s*.  0] 

Exemplification  or  Certificate  of  the  three  affidavits  for  M' 
Rucke  under  the  common  scale,  22.  5.  1G39.     [3s.] 

Received  a  dish  of  4  perches  from  Mr  Rucke,  20.  5.  1G39. 


[83]  Articles  of  Agreement  indented  made,  covenanted  and 
agreed  on  the  first  Day  of  the  third  moneth  in  the  yeare 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  thirty  and  ni/ne, 
Betiveene  WILLIAM  GAYLARD  of  Windsore  upon  the  river  of 
Kennecticot  in  America,  planter,  on  the  lehalfe  of  JOHN 
WAKHAM  Pastor  of  the  Church  there,  and  JANE  his  wife, 
e.recutrir  of  the  last  w  ill  and  testament  of  THOMAS  NEWBKKY 
gent.  Deceased,1  of  the  one  parte,  And  RICHARD  WRIGHT, 
of  Mount  Wollaston,  husbandman,  of  the  other  parte,  as 
folloiveth  : 

Imprimis,  It  is  covenanted,  condescended  and  agreed  that 
the  said  Will™  Gaylard  for  the  said  John  and  Jane  Doth 

1  Tliis  instrument  discloses  a  fact  ham,  and  the  mother  of  his  children, 
not  previously  ascertained,  that  Jane,  was  the  widow  of  Thomas  Ne\vl>ery,  of 
the  second  wife  of  Rev.  John  "War-  Dorchester.  Mr.  Warham's  first  wife 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  125 

grant  and  to  farmc  let  and  set  unto  the  said  Richard  Wright, 
his  executors  admr3  and  assiirnes  all  that  messuage  and 
farmc  or  parccll  of  ground  thereto  belonging  lying  on  the 
southerly  sydo  of  the  River  called  Aponsctt,  wch  the  said 
Thomas  Newbery  purchased  of  William  IVnehcon,  together 
wth  nync  cowcs  in  and  upon  the  same,  To  have  and  to  possesse 
the  said  farmc  and  Cowcs  wth  the  profitt,  increase  and 
])rovenue  thereof  unto  the  said  Richard  his  executors,  admin 
istrators  and  assigncs  from  the  Date  of  these  presents  for  the 
termc  of  foure  ycarcs  from  thence  next  ensuing  fully  to  be 
complcatc  and  ended.  And  if  it  so  fall  out  that  one  or  more 
of  the  said  Cowcs  dye  or  decay  wthiu  the  said  tcrmc  then  the 
said  .John  ct  Jane  or  their  assigncs  arc  to  putt  another  in  the 
room  thereof  to  make  up  the  number  of  nyne  for  the  residue 
of  the  said  tcrme  unexpircd  And  if  any  the  said  Cowcs  shall 
calve  wthin  four  Days  after  the  end  of  the  said  tcrmc,  then 
the  said  Richard  his  executors  administrators,  or  assignes 
shall  have  such  calfe  or  calves  and  shall  wcanc  or  take  it  or 
them  from  such  said  co\vcs  within  foure  days  after  the 
calving. 

Itiii,  the  said  Richard  Wright  doth  covenant,  promise  and 
agree  that  he  the  said  Richard  his  executors  administrators 
and  assigncs  shall  upon  the  first  Day  of  the  third  moncth 
every  yea  re  During  the  said  tcrme  pay  or  cause  to  be  payd 
unto  the  said  John  and  Jane  their  executors  administrators 
or  assigncs  the  yearly  rent  and  summc  of  sixty  pounds 
of  lawfull  money  of  England  for  and  in  lieu  of  the  said 
provcnues  and  increase  of  the  said  ffarmc  and  cowes.  And 

died  in  the  autumn,  or  early  in  Decem-  ventory  included   "land  in  England," 

bor,  1634  (  Winth.,  i.  app.  A,  55).     Mr.  valued  at  £300.     Mr.  AVarham  and  Mr. 

Newbery    was    early   engaged    in    the  "William  Gaylord  were  named  overseers 

movement  for  emigration  to  Connecti-  of  the  will  (Gcncal.  Jtcy.,  vii.  20  ;  Jfis- 

cut,    and   had   sold   a   portion    of    his  tory  of  Dorchester,   p.   60).      It  is  not 

Dorchester    property   with    a    view    to  certain  -whether  Mr.  "\Varham  married 

removal,  when  prevented  by  death  in  the  widow  at  Dorchester,  or  after  the 

December,  1635,  or  January,  1636.     By  removal  of  the  family  to  Windsor  ;  but 

his  will,  made  Dec.  12,  1635,  he  gave  the     former     is     the    more     probable. 

his  wife  Jane  £200,  and  constituted  her  William  Gaylord  was  a  deacon  of  the 

his  sole  executrix ;  and  the  rest  of  his  Dorchester  church  before  and  after  the 

estate  was  left  to  his  children.     His  in-  removal  to  Connecticut.     [T.] 


126  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

that  he  the  said  Richard  Wright  his  executors  administrators 
and  assignos  shall  During  the  said  terme  carefully  and  provi 
dently  looke  to  and  keepe  the  said  cowes  both  in  summering 
and  wintering  of  them  at  his  own  costs  arid  charges  or  theirs 
And  shall  not  Ictt  nor  sett  the  said  ffarme  &  Cowes  or  any  of 
them  to  any  other  person  or  persons  whatsoever,  except  John 
Wilson,  Pastor  of  the  Church  at  Boston,  during  the  said 
terme  and  in  the  end  of  the  said  terme  shall  pcacably  and 
quietly  deliver  the  said  messuage,  farme  &  cowes  and  every 
of  them  in  good  plight  and  condition  into  the  hands  &  posses 
sion  of  the  said  John  Warhani  and  Jane  his  wife  their  or  one 
of  their  executors  administrators  or  assignes.  And  if  the 
said  Richard  his  executors  admofs  or  assignes  shall  [84]  wil 
fully  or  carelessly  spoyle  or  misuse  the  said  Cowes  or  any  of 
them  so  as  they  or  any  of  them  Dye  or  be  lame  or  the  like 
he  or  they  shall  make  good  the  same  out  of  his'or  their  owne 
estate. 

Item.  It  is  agreed  that  if  the  said  Richard  his  executors, 
administrators  or  assignes  shall  be  willing  to  fence  wth  posts 
&  raylcs  and  pales  or  cause  to  be  so  fenced  any  part  of  the 
said  lands  for  the  improvement  thereof  he  or  they  may  so 
Doe,  and  take  timber  growing  on  the  premises  for  the  same 
end  and  shall  or  may  recoupe  &  abate  so  much  of  the  said 
rent  as  the  said  fcnccing  shall  be  worth  reasonably.  In 
witnessc  whereof  the  partyes  abovesaid  have  hereunto  inter 
changeably  sett  their  hands  &  scales  the  Day  &  yearc  first 
within  wTittcn.  coram.  [4s.] 

Me  Richum  Wright  De  Monte  Wollaston  in  Nova  Angli 
agricola  tener'  et  firmiter  obligare  Johi  Warham  Pastor  Eccle- 
sia3  dc  Windsor  sup  flumcn  De  Kcnnecticot  in  America  et 
Jane  uxor  eius  executrici  testamcnti  et  ultimo  voluntatis 
Thome  Ncwberry  gen  defunct  in  trecentis  libris  <fcc.  Dat' 
primo.  tcrrij  1639.  coram. 

The  Condicon  to  keepe  Covenants  on  his  p^  &c.  prout  supa 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK,  127 

Received  of  Mr  George  Story  4  yards  and  halfe 
a  quarter  of  tuft  holland  to  in 
a  wastcoate  at  2s.  Sd.  W  yarde, 

[The  next  entry  in  short-hand :] 
22.  5.  1G39.    Received  the  same  day  of  Mr.  John 


iceived  of  Mr  George  Story  4  yards  and  halfe  1 

a  quarter  of  tuft  holland  to  make  my  wife  l  r       ....    11s. 

o  wn«tpnnf.p.  n.h  ''2.s\  8^7    ^  vnrdfi.  J 


B[.  .  .]  one  ream  of  paper  at  0^.  M.  wanting  Y      •      •     •     • 
one  quire, 


6s.  Gd. 


Materialls  for  hike  cost  me 17s. 

Is.  \<l.  Received  for  a  quarte  of  inke. 

4d.  For  halfe  a  pinte  more. 

G(/.  For  about  a  pinte  before  to  Mr  Harrison,  before  he  went. 

Thomas  Purches  gent  makes  a  letter  of  Atturney  to  Daniel 
Adams  Citizen  and  Roper  of  Bristoll  to  receive  of  [&/«»ifc] 
Hayman  widdow  executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testament  or 
administratrix  of  the  goods  £  Chattells  of  .Fames  Ilayman 
mariner  Deceased  for  Divers  goods  &  merchandizes  of  the 
value  of  Oifty  pounds  or  thereabouts  Delivered  to  the  said 
James  in  or  about  September  Anno  1635  and  the  prove- 
nucs  &  prolitts  thereof. 

And  an  other  letter  of  Attorney  to  Captaine  Edward 
Giboncs  to  recover  of  John  Trcworthy2  iunior  of  Pascatta- 
quay  merchant  [85]  twenty  six  pounds  for  a  grcate  boatc  he 
bought  of  M?  Purchcs  in  or  about  July  1686  and  foure 
pounds  for  the  hire  of  another  boate  to  transports  him  from 
Pascattaquay  to  Pagiscott  wch  he  was  necessitated  to  hire 
whereas  bv  the  oritrinall  bar<raine  he  was  to  have  had  the 


1  This,   with    others   as   cursory    on  whom  is  mentioned  hy  Lech  ford  later, 
pp.  142,  203,  215,  are  the  only  allusions  This  John  Treworthy  is  spoken  of  later 
to   a   Mrs.     Lechford   in   this   volume,  (p.  172)  as  being  ngent  for  Mr.  Shnpley, 
She     married     Samuel     Wilbore    after  of  Dartmouth,   who   was,    I  think,   his 
Lech  ford's  death.    See  Hist,  and  Gcncnl.  brother  James's  father-in-law  (Saragc). 
Ecg.,  xxx.  2U2.  All  three  were  inhabitants  of  the  towns 

2  The  mention  here  and  afterwards  along  the  Maine  const, — which  would 
of  John  Treworthy  may  do  something  explain  their  virtual  absence  from  any 
towards  allaying  the  suspicions  of  those  written  records.     (See,  however,  Mass. 
who  have    doubted  his   existence    (sec  Col.  Rec.,  i.  254,  where  Mr.  Treworthy  is 
Savage).    He  had  two  brothers,  as  I  sup-  mentioned,  with   others,  of  the  Maine 
pose,  Nicholas  and  James  ;  the  first  of  coast). 


128  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

same  boatc  for  that  voyage  And  for  Dammages  for  deteyning 
of  the  said  money  being  30il  by  the  space  of  three  yeares. 

Be  it  knownc  unto  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I  Thomas 
Purches  of  Pagiscot  in  America,  gent.  Doe  hereby  constitute 
ordcyne  and  appoint  my  welbclovcd  in  Christ  Daniel  Adams 
Citizen  and  Roper  of  Bristoll  my  true  and  lawfull  Attorney 
for  me  and  in  my  name  to  sue,  arrest  and  impleade  [blank] 
Hay  man,  widdow,  executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testament  or 
administratrix  of  the  goods  and  chattells  of  James  Hayman, 
mariner,  deceased,  if  she  be  yet  sole  or  if  she  be  againe  mar 
ried  then  her  and  her  husband  or  by  whatsoever  name  or 
names  shee  or  hee  are  called  or  any  other  person  or  persons 
to  whose  hands  &  possession  the  goods  and  chattells  of  the 
said  James  Hayman  are  now  come  for  and  upon  an  account 
of  and  for  ccrtaine  goods  and  merchandizes  of  the  value  of 
fiifty  pounds  or  thereabouts  which  the  said  James  Hayman 
received  of  me  on  or  about  the  last  day  of  September,  Anno 
Dni.  1G35,  and  the  profitts  thereof  in  course  of  merchan 
dize  ever  since  wch  amounteth  in  all  to  the  summe  of  nynety 
pounds  or  thereabouts  and  the  same  of  and  from  her  and  them 
to  receive  and  recover  by  Due  course  of  Law  or  equity  in  any 
his  Mats  Courts  of  justice  &  whatsoever  in  my  name  and  to 
my  use  and  behoofe  And  further  I  Doe  hereby  give  power 
unto  my  said  Atturney  for  me  and  in  my  name  to  make  any 
reasonable  composition  vvtb  her  and  them  for  and  touching  the 
premises  and  to  give  acquittance  and  release  upon  payment 
or  satisfaccon  made  and  further  to  Doe  any  other  lawfull  and 
reasonable  act  or  thing  whatsoever  for  the  recovery  of  the 
said  money  or  as  much  as  may  be  recovered  for  the  said  goods 
&  merchandizes  reasonably  as  powerfully  and  effectually  as  if 
I  myselt'e  were  present  Ratefying  and  allowing  all  and  what 
soever  my  said  Atturney  shall  lawfully  Doc  in  the  prmises. 
In  witncsse.  25.  5.  1030.  Coram  me  and  2  al.  [2s.  GJ.] 

Be  it  knownc  unto  all  men  by  these  prsents  that  I  Thomas 
Purches  of  Pagiscott  in  America  gent  Doe  hereby  constitute 
ordeyne  and  appoint  my  welbeloved  and  trusty  ffreind  Cap- 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  129 

tainc  Edward  Gib.oncs  of  Boston  in  New  England  my  true  & 
lawfull  Atturnoy  for  me  and  in  my  name  to  sue  arrest  and 
implcade  John  Trc worthy  of  Pascattaquay  the  younger  mer 
chant  for  the  summc  of  twenty  six  pounds  wch  he  oweth  me 
for  a  greatc  boate  &  Us  tackling  wch  he  had  of  me  on  or 
about  the  last  Bay  of  the  fifth  moneth  in  the  yearc  of  our 
Lord  103(3  and  fourc  pounds  more  for  the  hire  of  an  [86] 
other  boate  wch  (for  want  of  the  said  grcate  boatc  wch 
according  to  the  originall  bargainc  betwcene  me  and  him  I 
was  to  have  had  for  to  carry  me  to  Pagiscott  aforesaid  but 
through  his  default  1  had  it  not)  I  was  forced  to  hire  to  carry 
me  from  Pascattaquay  to  Pagiscott  aforcsayd  about  the  same 
time  And  Dammages  for  Detcyning  the  said  moneys  ever  since 
and  the  same  of  him  his  executors  and  administrators  to 
receive  and  recover  by  any  course  of  Lawe  or  equity  whatso 
ever  before  any  his  Matyes  Governors  or  Justices  wheresoever 
in  my  name  and  to  my  use  and  behoof e  And  further  I  Doe 
hereby  give  unto  my  said  Atturney  put  Dcvaufc  in  lauter  lettre 
an  fine.  Dat'  25.  5.  1G39.  Coram  me  &  Duobus  a!  [2s.  0(7.] 

And  a  letter  to  Mf  Rice  of  Bristoll. 

Be  it  knownc  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Cato 
otherwise  Goodmanes,  for  five  coates,  five  wastcoats,  five  shirts, 
five  pay  re  of  stockins,  five  pay  re  of  shoocs,  five  hatchctts, 
five  hoiighcs,  five  knives,  five  pounds  of  tobacco  and  tcnne 
fadome  of  wampum  pege,  All  wch  I  have  received  of  George 
jMunningo  l  in  the  bchalfe  of  himselfc  <fc  the  rest  of  the  plant 
ers  of  the  new  plantation  lying  south  of  Concord  called 
Nannitt  Doe  by  this  my  writing  give  and  grant,  bargaine  and 
sell  unto  the  said  George  Munningc  and  the  sd  planters  of  the 

1  George  Munning,  as  is  seen  hore,  was  made  on  the  oast  side  of  the  Con- 
was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  cord   Kiver.     Munning    afterwards    re- 
the   town   of   Siulbury,    at    that    time  turned  to  Boston,   where  he  kept  the 
bounded  on  the  north  and  northeast  by  jail  for  some  years,  and  died  in  1G58. 
Concord,   and    on    the    east  by  "Water-         Edmund  Brown  was  the  first  minister 
town,    while    there  were   no   corporate  in  Sudbury.     lie  was  ordained  in  1640, 
towns  nor  land-grants  near  them  on  the  and  died  in  1677. 
west  and  south.     The  first  settlement 

9 


130  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

said  new  Plantation  and  their  successors  for  ever,  All  that 
tracte  of  land  conteyning  two  myles  square  from  the  now 
Dwelling  house  of  Bryan  Pendleton  gentleman,  on  all  sydes 
but  on  the  north  side  to  Concord  lync,  be  it  two  mylcs  more 
or  lessc,  wth  all  libertycs  Priviledgcs  and  appurtenances 
thereto  belonging,  together  wth  the  River  there  running  wthin 
all  the  said  tracte  of  land  hereby  granted.  And  I  Grant  unto 
them,  for  me  and  my  heircs  and  brethren,  that  I  and  they 
shall  and  will  at  any  time  make  any  further  assurance  in 
writing  for  the  more  perfect  assuring  of  the  said  lands  and 
all  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances,  unto  the  said  George 
Munningc  and  the  said  Planters,  and  their  successors  as  they 
shall  require.  In  witncsse  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  put  my 
hand  and  scale  the  Twenty  fifth  Day  of  the  (fifth  moneth  in 
the  yearc  that  Christians  write  of  Christ  the  Lord  One  thou 
sand  six  hundred  thirty  and  nyne.  Coram  JoHc :  Winthrop 
Gub™  <fc  mcipf). 

Edmund  Browne  and  Anna  Browne  my  wife  lately  the 
widdow  relict  of  John  Louerii  of  Watertowne  in  N.  E.  ycom : 
let  2  letters  of  atturncy  be  made  for  the  sayd  Ed :  to  Sr 
Thorn.  Bowes,  Brooly  Mag.  in  Essex  :  to  Mf  Anthony  Wit 
ting,  Bcntley  in  Essex,  Clearke,  to  Jonathan  Goffe  of  East 
Berghold,  Suff :  Clothier,  and  [w<»ifc]  Cole  of  Dcdham,  Essex, 
Clothier :  to  demand  and  sue  out  a  division  of  dowre  of  the 
lands,  whether  free  or  coppy,  of  the  said  John  deceased  living 
in  Ardly  in  Essex  now  in  the  possession  of  William  Louerum 
of  Alda  in  Suff :  or  George  Louerii  or  in  any  other  mans: 
brcthcren  of  my  predecessor :  and  also  to  compound  for  the 
same  according  to  Equity.1 

1  This  memorandum  is  not  in  Lech-  Gcn.Rcg.,\xx.  79.  He  gave  all  his  prop- 
ford's  handwriting,  and  may  perhaps  erty  to  his  wife,  with  £100  to  "  his 
have  been  entered  liy  Mr.  Brown  him-  brother  that  had  children,"  and  £20  to 
self.  The  letter  of  attorney  drawn  by  the  church,  after  her  life.  His  widow 
Lech  font  in  accordance  with  the  memo-  married  the  Ilev.  Edmund  Browne,  of 
randum  is  entered  at  length  on  the  two  Sudlmry,  June  19,  1639,  as  Governor 
following  pages  of  the  manuscript.  Winthrop's  attest  shows.  Mr.  Savage, 
The  nuncupative  will  of  John  Love-  on  the  authority  of  Barry  and  Bond,  lias 
ran,  or  Loverun,  is  printed  from  the  ^ivcii  the  date  of  her  second  marriage 
Suffolk  County  Ilccords  in  If  is',  and  as  1C  14. 


LECIIFORirS   MAXUSCU1PT  NOTE-BOOK.  101 

[87]  The  Recognition  of  two  (Tines  of  lands  in  Suffolkc  by 
John  Newgate  and  Anne  his  wife,  indorsed  it  the  Captions 
tilled  by  me,  before  (In*  (Governor  it  Deputy,  W2">.  5.  IGo'J, — 
and  for  my  attendance  therein.  [f>s.  given.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whom  these  presents  shall 
come,  we  Edmund  I>rown  of  Watcrtown  in  New  England  and 
Anne  I'rown  wife  of  the  said  Edmund  send  greeting  in  our 
Lord  Cod  everlasting  Knowe  yec  that  we  for  diverse  good 
causes  and  Considerations  us  thereunto  moving  Doe  hereby 
constitute  ordcync  and  appoint  our  welbeloved  and  honoured 
ffreind  S*  Thomas  Bowes  of  Bromley  mau;na  in  llio  County 
of  Essex  Knight  And  our  welbeloved  ffreinds  Anthony 
Whiting  of  Uently  in  the  said  County  Clcrkc  Jonathan  Gol'i'e 
of  East  IJergholt  in  the  County  of  SulVolke  Clothier  and  \_i,lank~\ 
Cole  of  Dedham  in  the  said  County  of  Essex  Clothier  our  true 
and  lawfull  Attnrneys  ioyntly  or  severally  for  ns  and  in  our 
names  to  clayme  Demand  and  sue  for  the  reasonable  Dower 
wch  belongcth  to  the  said  Anne  who  was  the  wife  of  John 
Lovcrun  late  of  Watcrtowne  in  New  England  yeoman  De 
ceased  of  the  ffree  hold  w':h  was  the  said  John  Lovernns 
sometime  her  husband  in  Ardley  in  the  County  of  Essex 
aforesd  or  elswhere  whereof  slice  hath  nothing  yet  assigned 
unto  her  and  wch  is  Deteyned  from  her  by  William  Loverun 
of  Aldham  in  the  County  of  Sull'olkc  aforesaid  or  Ceorge 
Loverun  yeomen  brethren  of  the  said  John  Lovernn  or  by 
some  other  person  or  persons  the  present  tenant  or  tenants 
of  the  said  {freehold  and  for  that  end  and  purpose*  to  sue 
forth  one  or  more  writ  or  writts  of  Dower  for  ns  and  in  our 
names  against  the  said  William  Loverun  or  Ccorge  Loverun 
or  against  any  other  person  or  persons  who  is  or  are  or  shall 
be  tin4  tenant  or  tenants  of  the  said  {'freehold  for  the  time 
being  and  the  same  writt  or  writts  to  prosecute  wMl  effect  to 
judgment  and  execution  before  his  Maties  Justices  of  the 

Thomas  Loveran,  son  of  William,  of  lf>70    purchased     the    homestead    ami 

Aldham,  Suffolk  (named  in  the  letter  of  other   lands    there    from    Mr.    Browne 

attorney  as  a  brother  ot  John),  settled  and  \vife  (Bond's  H'atcrtown,  p.  3,~>3). 

in    \Vaterto\vn     about      1GG3,     and     in  [T.] 


132  LKCIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Bench  at  Westminster  And  also  for  us  and  in  our  names  to 
goc  unto  the  Court  or  Courts  Baron  of  the  clieife  Lord  or 
Lords  of  the  said  Townc  or  Manner  of  Ardlcy  or  of  any 
otlier  Mannor  or  mannors  whatsoever  and  there  to  require 
dayme  and  Demand  to  be  and  to  be  admitted  Tenants  or 
Tenant  of  all  or  parte  of  such  Coppihold  lands  as  late  were 
the  said  John  Loveruns  sometimes  husband  of  the  said  Anne 
in  such  right  and  estate  as  bclongcth  to  the  said  Anne  accord 
ing  to  the  eustome  or  customes  of  the  said  Mannor  or 
Mannors  And  moreover  we  Doe  hereby  give  and  conferre  unto 
and  upon  our  said  Atturncys  full  power  and  lawfull  Author 
ity  ioyntly  or  severally  for  us  and  in  our  names  by  advice 
of  Nathaniel  Bacon  Esqr  Counsellor  at  Law  or  some  other 
learned  in  the  Lawe  to  article  covenant  condicon  agree  and 
compound  with  the  said  William  Loverun  and  George 
Loverun  or  either  of  them  or  wth  any  other  person  or 
persons  for  and  about  the  release  sale  grant  surrender  or 
purchase  of  the  said  Dower  <t  title  of  Dower  and  Coppihold 
lauds  unto  them  or  any  of  them  or  their  or  any  of  their  use 
and  behoofe  for  [88]  and  in  such  considcracon  or  Considera 
tions  or  such  sunime  or  summes  of  money  as  they  our  said 
Atturneys  or  any  of  them  shall  thinkc  to  be  reasonable  and 
the  same  summe  and  summes  of  money  for  us  and  in  our 
names  &  to  our  use  to  receive  and  to  returnc  unto  us 
according  to  other  letters  of  advice  by  wch  articleing  cov 
enanting  condiconing  agreeing  and  compounding  our  said 
Atturneys  or  any  of  them  may  bynde  us  to  make  any  further 
reasonable  assurance  by  Recovery  flinc  Deed  surrender  or 
otherwise  as  Councell  learned  in  the  law  shall  advise  so  that 
we  be  not  compelled  for  the  Doing  thereof  to  travell  forth  of 
the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England 
llatcfying  gratefully  accepting  and  confirming  all  and  what 
soever  our  said  Atturncys  or  any  of  them  shall  lawfully  Doe 
in  the  premises  In  witnesse  whereof  we  have  hereunto  sett 
our  hands  &  scales  the  twenty  fifth  day  of  July  in  the 
{fifteenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles 
now  King  of  England  <frc.  Annoqr  Dni  1G89.  Signed  sealed 
&  delived  in  the  presence  of  John  Winthrop  Governor  of 


LECHFORirS   MAXWCniPT  NOTE-BOOK.  133 

tbc   Massachusetts  in  New   England   &  mei.    Tlio.   Lccliford 
scriptoris  liujus. 

Am?  in  testimony  thereof  and  that  the  said  Edmund  and 
Anne  are  man  and  wile  together  and  \vere  married  upon,  the 
xixth  day  of  June  last  past  at  wch  marriage  1  the  said  John 
Winthrop  was  present  1  have  caused  the  Common  scale  of 
our  Colony  to  be  hereunto  affixed  the  day  of  the  date  of  these 
presents.  [8s.] 

William  Cole1  of  New  England  gent  and  Elizabeth  his 
wife  executrix  of  Francis  Doughty  the  Elder  of  Bristoll  mer 
chant  Deceased  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  unto  John  Cole  his 
brother  to  receive  of  M'  Fabian  Hill  of  Bristoll  lynnendrap 
their  former  Attorney  GOli  upon  a  bond  made  by  John  Barker 
of  the  City  of  Bristoll  merchant  unto  the  said  Francis 
Doughty  Condiconed  to  save  him  harmclcsse  of  one  other 
bond  wherein  at  request  of  the  said  John  Barker  the  said 
Francis  became  bound  to  Robert  Doughty  his  brother  who 
left  Margaret  his  wife  his  executrix  <fc  she  sued  the  said 
Francis  to  judgment  &  the  said  Elizabeth  payd  42  H  and  10s. 
above  2  yeares  since  and  hath  been  at  other  charges  of  Mary 
Barker  widdowe  executrix  of  the  said  John  Barker.  Dated 
18.  8.  2.  Cor  :  1G26. 

Be  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  we 
William  Cole  late  of  Sutton  in  the  parish  of  Chew-magna 
in  the  County  of  Somerset  yeoman  &  Elizabeth  Cole  his  wife 
one  of  the  Daughters  &  Executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testa 
ment  of  Francis  Doughty  of  the  City  of  Bristoll  Merchant 
Deceased  doe  hereby  constitute  ordeync  &  appoint  our  welbc- 
loved  brother  John  Cole  our  true  and  lawfull  Attorney  for  us 
and  in  our  names  to  sue  Arrest  and  impleadc  Alary  Barker 
widdow  Executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  John 
Barker  late  of  Bristoll  aforesaid  Merchant  Deceased  upon  one 
bond  cntred  into  by  the  said  John  Barker  for  himselfe  his 
heires  executors  &  administrators  unto  the  said  Francis 

1  For  William  Cole  ami  his  wife  Elizabeth,  a  troublesome  woman  in  her  ways, 
see  later  in  the  Note-book,  p.  110. 


134  LECHFOHD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Doughty  conditioned  to  save  him  &  his  executors  hurmclcssc 
of  one  other  bond  entred  into  by  the  said  Francis  at  the 
request  and  lor  the;  Debt  of  the;  said  John  Barker  unto. Robert 
Doughty  brother  of  the  said  Francis  Conditioned  for  the  pay 
ment  of  i'forty  pounds  unto  the  said  Robert  at  a  Day  long 
sinee  past  (\vch  H'orly  pounds  with  Divers  other  moneys  *.t 
costs  and  charges  the  said  Elizabeth  was  [89]  above  t\vo 
yeares  sithence  forced  to  pay  to  the  said  Robert  Doughty  and 
hath  thereby  bin  put  to  other  costs  A:  charges  in  the  law  and 
Damnilyed  to  the  value  of  the  whole  penalty  of  bond  aforesaid 
conditioned  to  save  harmelesse)  and  the  penalty  thereof  for  us 
in  our  names  *k  to  our  use  to  receive  &  recover  by  suit  of  law 
of  it  from  the  said  Mary  her  executors  &  administrators  And 
Wee  give  unto  our  said  Attorney  full  power  &,  lawiull  author 
ity  for  us  and  in  our  names  to  compound  &  agree  \vth  the 
said  Mary  Barker  her  executors  or  administrators,  for  and  con 
cerning  the  said  Debt  and  the  same  of  her  or  them  to  receive 
in  our  names  &  to  our  use  and  upon  payment  and  satisfaction 
to  make  unto  her  or  them  sufficient  acquittance  or  release  And 
further  to  Doe  and  make  any  other  lawfull  act  or  thing  what 
soever  for  and  about  the  recovery  of  the  said  Debt  as  power 
fully  and  effectually  as  if  we  our  selves  were  prsent  And 
furthermore  whereas  we  heretofore  did  make  seale  &•  deliver 
one  olbcr  letter  of  Atturney  as  our  act  &  Deed  unto  Fabian 
Hill  Citizen  <fe  linnen  Draper  of  Bristoll  him  authorizing  to 
sue  for  «fe  receive  of  the  said  Mary  her  executors  &  adminis 
trators  the  said  Debt  Now  in  case  the  said  Fabian  Hill 
hath  all  ready  received  or  recovered  the  same  then  we  Doe 
hereby  authorize  the  said  John  Cole  our  brother  &  now  Attur 
ney  to  receive  the  said  Debt  of  the  said  Fabian  Hill  for  us  in 
our  names  &  to  our  use  But  if  he  hath  not  received  nor  recov 
ered  the  same  then  we  authorize  him  our  said  brother  John 
Cole  to  receive  &  take  the  said  bon.l  and  all  other  writings 
concerning  the  same  forth  of  his  hands  and  then  to  procecde 
as  aforesaid  against  the  said  Mary  Barker  her  executors  and 
administrators  Ratcfying  gratefully  accepting  «fe  allowing  all 
and  whatsoever  our  said  brother  .John  Cole  our  now  Attorney 
shall  lawfully  Doe  in  the  prmises.  In  wittnesse  whereof  we 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  185 

have  hereunto  sett  our  hands  <t  scales  the  twenty  iiincth  day 
of  July  in  the  flil'tcenth  yearc  of  the  raigue  of  our  Soveraigne 
Lord  Charles  now  King  of  England  etc.  Anuoqr  Dili  1089. 
Conmi  Jotie  Winthrop  Ciub.  Hie.  Bellingham  ct  meipo. 
[i,  (!,.?.] 

Thomas  Foster  of  Boston  in  New  England,  Canonicr, 
makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Richard  Foster  of  Ipswich,  his 
brother,  shipmaster,  Anthony  Boycat  of  Ipswich,  cheese 
monger,  and  James  Uroeke  of  Ratclil'i'e  in  the  county  of 
M'uTd.,  mariner,  to  receive  of  the  Executor  of  his  ffather 
Thomas  Foster,  minister,  Deceased,  all  such  legacyes  given 
him  by  his  will  or  by  Deed. 

Be  it  knownc  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Thomas 
Foster  of  the  Castle  in  Castle  Island  in  New  England  Cano 
nicr,  soime  of  etc.  Dat'  29  Julii,  1039.  Coram  Petro  Olliver 
tt  meipo.  [Is.] 

John  Cole  of  Farrington  in  the  County  of  Somerset,  yeo 
man,  aged  about  twenty  seaven  ycarcs,  inakeih  oath  that  he 
knowctli  that  his  brother  William  Cole  and  Elizabeth  his  wife 
did  on  or  about  the  20th  day  of  Aprill  Anno  1087,  pay  unto 
Robert  Nelson  gent,  the  summe  of  sixiecno  pounds  for  the 
Debt  of  Francis  Doughty,  merchant,  Deceased,  lather  of  the 
said  Elizabeth,  and  this  Deponent  was  present  when  the  said 
Robert  Nelson  sealed  [90]  and  delivered  as  his  act  and  Deed 
one  generall  release  thereupon  unto  the  said  William  and 
Elizabeth  to  wch  release  now  shewed  to  this  Deponent  he  set 
his  name  as  a  witnesse.  And  also  that  this  Deponent  know- 
eth  that  at  the  same  time  the  said  Will1"  and  Elizabeth  payd 
for  the  tythes  of  the  farme  called  Ilamsteed  Farme,  unto 
Marmadnke  Chapman,  Clarke,  the  summe  of  teuue  pounds 
for  wch  the  said  Marmadnke  gave  his  generall  release  now 
shewed  to  this  Dept  to  the  said  Williii  &  Elizabeth  in  this 
Deponents  presence  tt  he  saw  it  sealed  tt  Delivered  although 
his  name  be  not  thereto  inscribed  as  a  witnesse.  And  also 
this  Dcpont  knoweth  that  Francis  Doughty  brother  of  the 


130  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

said  Elizabeth  overbold  the  said  William  <t  Elizabeth  out  of 
possession  of  the  said  ffarme  called  Hamsteed  farme  ever  since 
their  marriage,  how  rightfully  this  Depont  knoweth  not.  "[!«.] 

Thomas  Marslifcild  had  of  .John  lies1  of  Dorchester  in  N. 
E.  281  to  be  payd  to  Adam  Hurden  of  Barnstaplc  in  Devon, 
in  or  about  the  moneth  of  January  last  past,  wch  was  the  Debt 
of  lies.  Now  the  said  Thomas  M.  and  Henry  Woolcott  and 
William  Gaylard  are  to  be  bound  to  secure  John  lies  of  all 
Damages  thereabout. 

Nos  Thomii  Marshfeild  dc  Windsor  sup  flumen  DC  Kennect- 
icot  in  America,  plantatore,  Henricum  Woolcott  De  eadem,  et 
Willm  Gaylard  De  eadem  plantatorcs,  tener'  etc.  Joh1  lies  in 
501  Dat'  29.  5.  1G39.  Coram  - 

The  Condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  whereas  the 
aboveboundcn  Thomas  Marshfield  heretofore  received  of  the 
abovenamed  John  lies  the  summe  of  twenty  <fc  eight  pounds 
in  New  England  the  which  or  the  like  summe  the  said 
Thomas  undcrtookc  to  pay  unto  one  Adam  Ilurden  of  Barn- 
staple  in  the  County  of  Devon  unto  whome  the  said  John  lies 
Did  owe  the  same  If  therefore  the  said  Thomas  Henry  and 
William  their  heires  executors  or  administrators  or  any  of 
them  shall  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  upon 
reasonable  notice  save  &  kccpe  harmelesse  the  said  John  lies 
his  heires  executors  &  adiurs  of  &  from  all  suits  troubles 
Dammages  costs  &  charges  that  shall  arise  and  come  upon 
him  or  them  for  or  by  reason  of  the  said  Debt  of  twenty  & 
eight  pounds  heretofore  Due  unto  the  said  Adam  Ilurden  Then 
this  obligation  to  be  voyd  &  of  none  effect  or  els  to  remaine 
&  be  in  full  power  strength  &  vertuc.  [Is.  Gc?.] 

1  I- suppose  that  John  lies  hen;  men-  he  moved  to  Windsor  in  1G38.     Wolcott, 

tioned  was  the  man  whom  tradition  pro-  also  from  Dorchester,  was  one  of  the 

sented  to  Mr.   Savage  under  the  name  earliest   settlers   at  Windsor,   to  which 

of  John  Hills.     This  latter  was  said  to  place  he  journeyed   in  1035.     Thomas 

}>e  a  blacksmith  of  Dorchester.     Thomas  Marshfield    is   supposed    to  have    come 

Marshfield     ami      Henry     Wolcott,     of  from   Dorchester  also;    hut  this  cannot 

Windsor,  are  spoken  of  in  the  Note-book  he   made    certain  without   confounding 

several  times  (pp.  174,180).     William  him  with  Thomas  Marshall. 
Oaylord  had  been  of  Dorchester,  whence 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  137 

Me  Thoma  Marshficld  DC  Windsor  sup  (lumen  DC  Kciinect 
icot  in  America  ]>lantatorcm  toner'  £c.  llenrico  Wooleott  & 
Willu  daylard  in  Centum  lihris  £c.  Dat'  21).  f>.  1(>3£ 
corn  in. 

The  Condicon  to  save  harmelessc  them  of  the  said  bond  tc 
John  lies.  [Is.  Gtf.] 

[91]  Me  Franciscu.  Doughty  De  Dorccstria  in  N.  A.  plan- 
tator'  tenor'  <tc.  llenrico  Webb  in  quingentis  lil)ris  <tc.  Dat 
29.  5.  1030.  Coram  Johc  Winthrop  gub.  ct  meipo. 

The  Condicon  to  save  harmelessc  the  said  Henry  of  ono 
recognizance  of  50CU  to  the  King,  entrcd  into  at  the  request  of 
the  said  Fr :  by  the  said  11.  condiconed  for  the  personall 
appearance  of  the  said  Fr :  at  the  next  quarter  Court  hcere 
to  answer  Willm.  Cole  <fc  Elizabeth  his  wife  in  such  actions  & 
Demands  as  they  shall  bring  against  him  £  in  particularc  one 
accon  upon  the  case.  [I*-] 

Me  Richardu  Parker  de  Boston  in  N.  A.  m[crcatorcm], 
tener'  <tc.  Samucli  irntchinson,  in.  ct  Tho  :  Savage  in  1800* 
Dat'  8.  5.  1039.  coram. 

Condieoned  for  the  payment  of  9391  18s.  4<i.,  9.  11.  prx°  at 
the  late  dwelling  house  of  W.  11.  in  Boston  aforesaid.  [Is.] 

Joseph  Hills  1  of  Charlcstowne  in  New  England,  Woollen- 
draper,  aged  about  30  ycarcs,  sworne,  saith  upon  his  oath 
that  he  came  to  New  England  undertaker  in  the  ship  called 
the  Susan  &  Ellen  of  London,  whereof  was  Master  M5 
Edward  Payne,  in  the  ycare  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  six 
hundred  thirty  and  eight,  the  14th  yea  re  of  the  raigne  of  our 
Sou'aignc  Lord  the  King  that  now  is,  and  this  dcp*  knowes 
that  Divers  goods  tt  chattells  victualls  &  commodities  of 
Joseph  Loomis,  late  of  Brayntree  in  the  County  of  Essex, 

1  Joseph  Hills  was  aftcnvards  solcot-  of  "Windsor,  was  not  first  at  Dorchester, 

man  of  Cli.irlestcnvn  and  captain  of  mi-  perhaps,  and  the  family  tradition  that  lie 

litia  in  the  town,  and  also  representative  came  in  the  '  Mary  and  John  '  is  wrong." 

in  the  General  Court  and  Speaker  of  the  He  thinks  that   Loomis  came  in  1G38  ; 

House.    Joseph  Loom  is,  Savage  says,  was  it  does  not  say  hero  when  he  came. 


138  LECllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

woollendraper,  wch  were  put  up  in  three  butts,  two  hogslicds, 
One  halfhogshed,  one  barrell,  one  tubb  &,  three  firkins,  trans 
ported  from  Maiden  in  the  County  of  Essex  to  London  in  an 
Ipsw1'1  live,  were  shipped  in  tin;  said  ship  upon  the  eleventh 
Day  oi'  Aprill  in  the  yearo  abovesayd,  and  this  Deponent 
cleared  the  said  goods  wth  Divers  other  goods  of  the  said 
Joseph  Looinis  and  other  niens,  in  the  Custoine  house  at 
London,  as  may  appearc  by  the  Customer's  bookes,  and  this 
Dep1  saith  that  the  said  goods  were  transported  into  New 
England  in  the  said  ship,  where  lie  arrived  on  the  seaven- 
teenth  Day  of  July  in  the  yeare  aforesayd.  [Is.] 

An  exemplification  and  certificate  of  the  same,  Dated  30. 
5.  1039.     [U  Gil] 

Be  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  1  Thomas 
Rucke  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England  planter  Doe  hereby 
constitute  ordeyne  and  appoint  my  welbeloved  and  trusty 
1'treinds  Thomas  Rucke  of  London  haberdasher  and  Thomas 
Plum  of  Maiden  in  the  County  of  Essex  gent  my  true  &  law- 
full  Atturneys  joyntly  or  severally  for  me  and  in  my  name  to 
Demand  receive  and  recover  unto  my  use  by  suit  of  law  or 
equity  the  severall  sunmies  of  money  &  Debts  or  whatsoever 
the  said  Debts  be  if  any  of  them  be  misrecited  in  the 
Schedule  hereunto  annexed  meant  <fc  meneoned  of  &  from  the 
severall  Debtors  owing  the  same  unto  me  whose  names  are 
meant  A:  mentioned  also  in  the  said  Schedule  and  to  that  end 
&  purpose  for  me  and  in  my  name  to  sue  arrest  <fc  impleadc 
the  said  debtors  and  every  or  any  of  them  by  what  name  or 
names  soever  they  be  called  upon  or  for  their  said  severall 
Debts  and  the  same  to  recover  by  due  procisse  in  any  his 
Mats  Corts  of  Justice  whatsoever  and  further  for  me  &  in  my 
name  to  compound  &  agree  wth  all  or  any  of  the  said  Debtors 
for  their  severall  Debts  aforesaid  and  the  same  of  them  £ 
cverv  of  them  to  receive  to  my  use  and  after  such  payment 
and  satisfaction  in  my  name  to  give  them  or  any  of  them 
sufficient  acquittance  and  acquittances  release  &  releases  and 
to  doe  or  make  any  other  lawi'ull  £  reasonable  act  or  thing 
whatsoever  for  <t  about  the  receipt  &  recovery  of  the  said 


LECHFORD'S  MAXI.'SCllIPJ'  NOTE-BOOK.  139 

Debts  as  powerfully  &  effectually  as  if  I  myselfe  were  present 
Ratcfying  &c.     Dat'  30.  5.  1639.     [2s.  6U] 

[92]  John  Grey,1  <fc  Elizabeth  his  wife,  sell  to  Valentine 
Hill,  one  house  <fc  homclott  cont  :  an  acre,  and  live  acres  more 
tlicrto  belonging,  lying  in  Lynne,  heretofore  in  the  possession 
of  one  Edmunds, — for  12*  in  hand  and  the  rest  to  be  payd 
when  it  is  sold,  40-s1.  to  Joseph  Arniitage,  and  the  rest  John 
Grey. 

This  Indenture  Are.  Bctwccnc  John  Orey  of  Boston  in  new 
England  planter  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  of  the  one  parte  And 
Valentine  Hill  of  Boston  aforesaid  merchant  of  the  other 
parte  Witncsscth  that  the  said  John  and  Elizabeth  for  twelve 
pounds  to  them  in  hand  payd  by  the  said  Valentino  have 
granted  bargained  &  sold  and  by  these  prnts  do  grant  bargayn 
<fc  sell  unto  the  said  Valentine  all  that  their  house  &  home 
lott  conteyning  one  acre  and  live,  acres  of  land  more  thereto 
belonging  in  Lynnc  heretofore  in  the  possession  of  one 
Edmunds  wth  the  appurtenances  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said 
house  &  lands  &  all  &  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  appur 
tenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said  Valentine  his  heires  and 
assignes  for  ever  And  the  said  John  <fc  Elizabeth  Doe  hereby 
Covenant  promise  <fe  grant  to  &  wlh  the  said  Valentine  his 
heires  &  assignes  that  he  &  they  shall  or  may  quietly  enjoy 
the  premises  freed  of  all  debts  <fe  incnmbrances  of  the  said 
John  &  Elizabeth  for  anything  Done  or  to  he  Done  by  them 
the  said  John  &  Elizabeth  or  either  of  them  And  the  said 
Valentine  Doth  hereby  Covenant  promise  &  grant  to  &  wth 
the  said  John  £  Elizabeth  that  lie  the  said  Valentine  shall  & 
will  endevour  to  sell  the  said  premises  for  as  much  money  as 

1  Quo  John  C-rfiy  find  his  wife  Eliza-  selectmen  of  Boston.     Later  he  liecame 

beth  are  noted  in  Savage,  with  no  date.  interested  in  lands  at  Dover,  and  I  snp- 

Valentinc    Hill   hen;   appears    in   his  pose  lived  there  sonic  time.     He  was  at 

most   familiar  vocation,  as  a  dealer   in  this  period  often  representative  for  the 

real  estate.      He  was  one    of   the    most  town.     There    is   mention  of  him  sev- 

enterprising   of  the,   Boston   merchants,  eral  times  in  the  A'olc-bitok. 

lie  came  in    1630,    was    made    freeman  Joseph  Armitn^e,   of  Lynn,    was   an 

and  also  deacon  of  the  church  in   1040,  innkeeper  ( see  p.  202). 
and   was    for  a  long  time   one   of   the 


140  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

reasonably  he  can  and  if  he  shall  sell  the  same  for  more  then 
twelve  pounds  then  he  shall  and  will  pay  out  of  such  moneys 
above  twelve  pounds  to  be  raysed  thereof  fforty  shillings  to 
Joseph  Armitage  and  shall  <fe  will  pay  the  rest  whatsoever  it 
shall  be  to  the  said  John  Grey.  In  witnessc  &c.  1.  G.  1030. 
p  Eliz:  Corain. 

Robert  Meriam  of  Concord  in  New  England  planter,  aged 
about  2G  ycarcs,  swornc,  Deposeth  upon  his  oath  that  in  the 
moneth  of  Aprill  in  the  foureteenth  yeare  of  the  Kings 
Mats  raigne  that  now  is  he  delivered  unto  William  Hatch  l 
one  of  the  undertakers  in  the  ship  called  the  Castle  of 
London,  for  her  voyage  to  New  England  that  yeare,  in  the 
Master's  Roundhouse  aboard  the  said  ship  while  she  was  in 
the  River  of  Thames,  the  summe  of  thirty  &  five  pounds  of 
lawfull  money  of  England,  in  the  behalfe  of -Joseph  Mcriam 
brother  of  this  Deponent,  and  the  said  William  Hatch  sayd 
to  this  Deponent  at  the  tyine  when  he  received  the  said 
money,  1  shall  not  need  to  give  you  an  acquittance  for  this 
money,  I  will  sett  it  Downe  in  writing  heere  for  remem 
brance,  or  wordes  to  that  effect,  and  this  Dcpon1  then  saw 
him  write  upon  some  paper,  but  what  he  writ  this  De- 
pon*  knoweth  not.  Jur'  1.  (6.)  1039.  Coram  Johe  Winthrop 
Gubr  [Is.] 

A  Rate  for  Boston  made  29.  5.  1G39,  written  for  W. 
Cogan.  [Is.  Grf.] 

[93]  Edmund  Hubbard  of  Ilingham  in  New  England 
Planter  and  Sarah  his  wife  sometime  wife  of  John  Lyford 
Clerke  Deceased  Obadiah  Lyford  Clerke  deceased  and  Mor- 
decai  Lyford  his  brother  and  heirc  ffree  land  in  the  County 
of  Tyrone.  And  the  lease  of  Leballeglishe.  [Is.  6d.~\ 

Joseph  Meriam  against  William  Hatch  for  5*  above  the 
said  thirty  pounds  on  the  affidavit  &  5*  14s.  more  under  his 
hand.  .[2s.  0.] 

1  There  i.s  much  in  the  Note-look  on  this  case  (see  p.  105). 


LECIIFORirS   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  141 

Gabriel  Fish !  of  Exeter  in  New  England,  flishcrman, 
makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Edward  Rishworth  of  the 
same  husbandman,  to  receive  of  James  Carrington  of  Thors- 
thorp  in  fhe  County  of  Lincolnc,  gent  the  suinme  of  tenne 
pounds  ^vch  he  was  to  receive  of  John  Hutchinson  of 
Alford  in  the  sd  County,  woollen  draper,  the  remainder 
of  18*  Due  upon  one  bond  left  wth  the  said  Mr  Carrington, 
Diit'  3  Aug.  1039.  Coram  Sam:  Il[utchinson]  E.  Hutchinson 
&  meipf).  [Is.] 

John  Winthrop  EsqT  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  £c.  to  all  or  any  his 
Majesties  Judges  &  Justices  and  all  other  officers  &  others 
whomesoever  it  may  concerne,  greeting:  Known  ycc  that 
upon  the  first  Day  of  August  in  the  fiiftecnth  yeare  of  the 
raigne  of  our  Soveraignc  Lord  Charles  by  the  grace  of  God 
King  of  England,  Scotland,  France  and  Ireland  .Defender  of 
the  ITaith  CY.C.  Mordecai  Lyford,  an  infant  under  the  age 
of  twenty  and  one  ycares,  that  is  to  say,  of  the  age  of 
fourcteono  yeares  or  thereabouts  as  described  came  before 
me  and  Did  elect  and  choose  his  ffather-in-law  Edmund 
Hubbard  2  of  Hingham  in  New  England  planter,  then  also 

1  Gabriel  Fish  was  an  early  inhabit-  Mordecai,  Ilingham,  1642."    And  under 
ant  of  Boston,  and  soon  moved  back  from  Edmund  Hobart  he  says:  "  I  see  reason 
Exeter,  where  be  had  gone  in  1038.  Ed-  to  infer  that  a  widow  Lyford,  whom  ho 
ward  Rishworth,  Exeter,  1(539,  married  a  married  later  in  life,  was  relict  of  that 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  Wheelwright,  Rev.   John    Lyford    who    was    at    Ply- 
founder  of  Exeter.     He  was  a  son  of  the  mouth."    This,  under  the  light  of  this 
Rev.  Thomas  Rish worth,  and  <i  nephew  entry  and  those  immediately  following, 
of  Samuel   Hutchinson,  being  a  son  of  is  seen  to  be  substantially  correct.    Sarah 
his   sister.  (not  Anne,  as  Savage  thinks)  had  been 

2  Of  these  people  Savage  has  the  fol-  the  wife  of  Rev.    John   Lyford,  first  of 
lowing  under  John  Lyford,  of  Plymouth,  Lebeleglish,   near    Loughgaid   (Lough- 
who    bred    disturbance   ^here,  and    was  gall  ?  see  page  154),  in  the  County  of 
compelled  to  move  away.     "About  1627  Armagh,    Ireland,   and  subsequently  of 
he  moved  with  some  adherents-  to  Vir-  Plymouth    and     elsewhere.      Mordecai 
ginia,  and  there  died  soon,  it  is  thought.  Lyford  was  their  son,  born  about  1625. 
A  reasonable  conjecture  is  that  he  had  For  Ruth  Lyford,  see  Stiff.  Deeds,  i.  27. 
wife,  Ann,  and  children,  Ruth  and  Mor-  After  the  death  of  John,  Sarah  married, 
decai,  left  at  Nantasket,  and  that  his  Oct.  10,  1634,  in  Charlestown,  Edmund 
widow,  Ann,  who  died  1639,  had  mar-  Hobart,  of  Hingham.    For  John  Lyford, 
ried  Edmund  Hobart,  of  Hingham.'.  .  .  see  Bradford's  History  of  Plymouth. 


142  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

present  before  me,  to  be  bis  Guardian,  for  him  and  in  his 
name  to  bring  <fc  followc  or  cause  to  be  brought  &  followed 
all  it  all  manner  of  actions  reall  &  personal!,  and  all  De 
mands  whatsoever  to  make,  that  he  the  said  infant  hath  or 
may  have  against  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever  for  any 
Lands  <fc  tenements,  goods  <fc  chat  tells  or  any  other  matter  or 
thing  of  right  belonging  to  him  in  any  his  Maties  Courts  of 
Justice  in  Ireland  or  elswhere,  and  there  to  clayme  enter 
upon  <fc  take  or  cause  to  be  claymcd  entered  upon  or  taken 
into  his  hands,  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  said  infant  certaine 
Lands  &  tenements  lying  in  the  County  of  Tyrone  lawfully 
Descended  to  the  said  infant.  All  which  at  the  spcciull 
instance  &  request  of  the  said  Edmund  Ilubbard  and  Sarah 
his  wife,  I  have  thought  good  to  certify  and  in  testimony 
thereof  have  caused  the  Common  Scale  of  our  Colony  to 
be  hereunto  affixed  the  sixth  day  of  August 'in  the  fifteenth 
year  aforcsd 

[94]  And  at  the  same  time  Sarah  the  wife  of  the  said 
Edmund  Ilubbard  was  present  before  me  and  tooke  her  cor- 
porall  oath  in  these  words  following  ssc.  Sarah  Ilubbard  wife 
of  Edmund  Ilubbard  of  Ilingham  in  New  England  planter, 
aged  about  fifty  3  yeares,  sometimes  the  wife  of  John  Lyford, 
Clerkc,  Deceased,  and  mother  of  Obadiah  Lyford,  Clerke, 
deceased,  and  of  Mordecai  Lyford,  sworn e,  saith  upon  her 
oath  that  the  said  Mordecai  who  hath  this  Day  chosen  the 
said  Edmund  Ilubbard  to  be  his  guardian,  is  brother  and  next 
heire  of  the  said  Obadiah.  And  also  I  have  scene  a  sufficient 
Register  of  the  marriage  of  the  said  Edmund  and  Sarah,  tes 
tifying  that  they  were  lawfully  married  at  Charlcstownc  in 
New  England  upon  the  tenth  Day  of  October  in  the  tenth 
ycarc  of  his  said  Majesties  raigne.  All  wch  &c.  [3s.] 

• 

Direct  yor  letters  to  Mf  John  Bradley  merchant  in  Cateaton 

st recto  in  London  or  to  Mf  Richard  Andrcwes  at  the  signe  of 
the  Mcremayd  near  the  Crossc  in  Cheapsidc,  —  to  be  sent  to 
Mr  Bladen. 

To  all  Christian  pooplo  to  whom  these  presents  shall  come 
wee  Edmund  Ilubbard  of  Ilingham  in  New  England  planter, 


LECJIFORD'S   MAXCSCRfPT  NOTE-LOOK.  143 

guardian  of  Mordecai  Lyford  brother  it  heir  of  Obcdiah 
Lyford  Clcrke,  Deceased  and  Sarah  wife  of  the  said  Edmund, 
send  greeting  in  our  Lord  Clod  everlasting:,  Know  Yec  that 
we  have  constituted,  ordeyned  «.t  in  our  place  put.  our  welbc- 
loved  it  trusty  frcinds  William  Bladen  alderman  of  the  city 
of  Dublin  and  John  Fisher  citizen  of  the  same  city,  our  true 
ct  lawfull  Attorneys  joyntly  and  severally  for  us  and  in 
our  names  or  in  the  name  of  either  of  us  as  the  case  shall 
require,  to  Demand  it  receive  all  and  all  manner  of  Debts 
rights  &  summes  of  money  Due  unto  us  or  either  of  us  or 
unto  the  said  Mordecai  Lyford,  of  and  from  any  person  or 
persons  whatsoever  that  ought  to  render  it  pay  the  same  and 
to  that  end  it  purpose  in  our  name  or  names  or  the  name  of 
the  said  Mordecai  to  sue  arrest  it  implead  or  cause  to  be 
sued  arrested  it  hnpleaded  all  and  every  such  person  or  per 
sons  in  any  his  Mats  Courts  of  Justice  whatsoever  for  the 
said  sums  of  money  rights  A-  Debts  it  them  to  recover  to  our 
use  or  to  the  use  of  the  sd  Mordecai  and  further  reasonably  to 
compound  it  agree  wth  all  or  any  the  said  persons  for  (he  said 
Debts  rights  it  summes  of  money  and  upon  receipt  thereof 
to  give  to  all  and  every  the  said  persons  it  person  sufficient 
acquittance  or  [95]  acquittances  release  or  releases  for  us  it 
the  sd  Mordecai  it  in  our  names  it  his.  And  also  to  make 
it  doe  all  and  every  other  lawfull  it  reasonable  act  or  acts 
thing  or  things  for  it  touching  the  recovery  of  the  said  Debts 
rights  &  summes  of  money  as  effectually  it  powerfully  as  if  we 
ourselves  and  the  said  Mordecai  were  present.  And  lastly  we 
Do  hereby  Authorise  it  appoint  our  said  Attorneys  joyntly  it 
severally  for  us  it  in  our  names  or  the  names  of  cither  of  us 
and  <>f  the  said  Mordecai,  as  the  ease  shall  require  to  sue  for, 
lett  and  sett  for  reasonable  rents  all  the  Lands  in  the  County 
of  Tyrone  or  elsewhere  lawfully  Descended  unto  the  said 
Mordecai,  and  to  sue  for,  grant,  bargainc  <t  sell  assync  and 
set  over  all  our  right  title  it  interest  in  the  Lease  at  Leballcg- 
lish  in  the  County  of  Ardmagh,  for  reasonable  considerations 
and  rents  and  it  shall  be  lawfull  for  them  our  said  Atturneys 
or  cither  of  them  to  bind  us  to  make  any  further  assurance 
bv  Recovery  fvnc  Deed  or  otherwise  as  Counsell  learned  in 


144  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

the  Law  shall  advise  so  as  for  Doing  thereof  we  shall  not  be 
compelled  to  travcll  forth  of  the  Jurisdccon  of  the  Massa 
chusetts  bay  in  New  England.  Ratefying  &c.  Coram  put  et 
mcipo.  Dat'  6.  G.  1639.  [3s.] 

Me  Robtum  Waggett  de  Wapping  in  Com.  Midd.  nauta 
tencr'  &c.  Edv°  Payne  l  nauta  in  100»  Dat'  5.  6.  1639.  Coram 
Sam:  H.  Ed:  II.  Nath.  Micklethwaite  &  meipo,  Condiconed 
to  serve  five  years  according  to  Indentures.  [2s.  Gd.  given.] 

Three  letters  one  to  Mf  Bladcn  and  Mf  Fisher  and  one 
to  Mf  John  Bullingbrooke  and  the  other  to  Mf  William 
Peirson.  [4s.] 

Be  it  knownc  unto  all  men  by  these  prsents  that  I  John 
Cogan  of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  Doe  hereby  con 
stitute  ordcyne  &  appoint  and  in  my  place  putt  my  welbcloued 
ffrcind  Isaacke  Northcot  of  Hiinniton  in  the  County  of  Devon 
mercer  my  true  &  lawfull  Attorney  and  Procurator  for  me  & 
in  my  name  to  Demand  &  receive  of  &  from  the  Executor 
Executrix  or  Executors  of  the  last  will  &  Testament  of  my 
mother  Elianor  Cogan  late  of  Tiverton  in  the  said  County 
of  Devon 2  widd  Deceased  who  or  whomsoev  he  she  or  they 
are  or  shall  be  all  &  every  such  legacy  or  legecyes  gift  or  gifts 
or  bequest  or  bequests  by  her  the  said  Elianor  my  mother  in 
and  by  her  said  last  will  &  testament  given  &  bequeathed 
unto  me  and  to  that  end  &  purpose  to  sue  arrest  <fc  impleade 
or  cause  to  be  sued  arrested  &  implcadcd  the  said  Executor 
Executrix  or  Executors  for  the  said  legacie  or  legacycs  gift  or 
gifts  bequest  or  bequests  and  the  same  of  him  her  or  them  to 
recover  in  any  Court  or  Courts  whatsoever  as  the  case  shall 
require  But  if  the  said  Elianor  my  mother  did  not  give  me 
any  or  not  any  considerable  legacy  or  legacyes  gift  or  gifts 
bequest  or  bequests  by  her  said  last  will  and  Testament  or 
Dyed  intestate  then  to  demand  £  receive  of  her  Executors  or 

1  Ed  ward  Payne,  master  of  the  "  Susan     England  John   Cogan   emigrated.     He 
and  Ellen, "of  London,  as  above,  p.  91.        may  have  come  from  Tiverton,  in  the 

2  It  is  not  known  from  what  part  of    County  of  Devon. 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  145 

Administrators  of  her  goods  rights  &  credits  who  or  whomso 
ever  he  she  or  they  shall  be  ail  such  childs  parte  &  portion  of 
her  personall  estate  as  of  right  helongeth  unto  me  and  to  that 
end  &  purpose  to  sue  arrest  <t  impleade  or  cause  to  be  sued 
arrested  <fc  implcaded  the  said  Executors  or  Administrators 
for  the  said  Childs  parte  &  portion,  and  the  same  [96]  of  thorn 
to  recover  in  any  Court  or  Courts  whatsoever  And  for  me  & 
in  my  name  upon  receipt  of  the  said  legacy  or  legacycs  gift 
or  gifts  bequest  or  bequests  or  childs  parte  &  portion  to 
make  &  give  sufficient  &  lawfull  acquittance  or  release  ac 
quittances  or  releases  unto  the  said  Executors  or  Adminis 
trators  And  further  for  me  &  in  my  name  to  Doe  <fc  make  or 
cause  to  be  done  &,  made  all  £  every  other  reasonable  act  & 
acts  thing  &  things  whatsoever  for  &  touching  the  Demand 
receipt  <fc  recovery  of  the  said  legacy  or  legacyes  gift  or  gifts 
bequest  or  bequests  or  childs  parte  &  portion  as  powerfully  & 
effectually  as  if  I  my  selfo  were  present  llatefying  gratefully 
accepting  &  allowing  all  £  whatsoever  my  said  Atturney  & 
Procurator  shall  lawfully  Doe  in  the  premises  In  witnesse 
whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  <fe  scale  the  seaventh 
Day  of  August  In  the  Hifteenth  ycarc  of  the  raigne  of  our 
Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  now  King  of  England  etc.  Annoqr 
Dili  1639.  Coram  meipo  it  Jolio  Cogan  \\mr.  [2.  0.] 

Be  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  John 
Cogan  of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  Doe  hereby  con 
stitute  ordeyne  <fc  appoint  and  in  my  place  put  my  welbelovcd 
ffreind  John  Stoning  Citizen  &  haberdasher  of  London  my 
true  £  lawfull  Attorney  for  me  <fc  in  my  name  to  sue  arrest  & 
impleade  or  cause  to  be  sued  arrested  cv;  impleadcd  John 
Harrison1  late  of  Boston  aforesaid  gent  for  the  summe  of 
twenty  six  pounds  fourc  shillings  &  five  pence  wch  he  owcth 

1  There   are    also   in    the   Note-book  unless  lie  be  the  ropemaker  of  Boston, 

(pp.  121,  126)  entries  relating  to  a  letter  which  I  greatly  doubt.    I  think  he  must 

of  attorney  from  John  Stratton  of  Salem  be  the  gambler  who  was  admonished  and 

to   Richard    Hutchinson   of  London  to  fined  10*.  in  a  court  held  in  June,  1639. 

collect  money  of  John  Harrison.     This  On  this  matter  see  pp.  97,  99. 
man   is   not   to    be    found    in    Savage, 

10 


140 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


unto  me  &  promised  to  pay  me  at  Daves  &  times  past  and  the 
same  of  and  from  him  to  recover  or  receive  by  any  course  of 
la\ve  or  equity  in  any  his  Mats  Corts  of  Justice  whatsoever 
or  otherwise  And  upon  receipt  of  the  said  money  wth  all 
charges  costs  &  Dammages  concerning  the  same  for  me  &  in 
my  name  to  give  &  make  or  cause  to  be  made  &  given  unto 
him  a  sufficient  release  &  Discharge  And  all  &  every  other 
lawfull  &  reasonable  act  or  acts  thing  or  things  touching  the 
recovery  or  receipt  of  the  said  money  for  me  &  in  my  name 
to  make  &  doc  or  cause  to  be  made  &  Done  as  powerfully 
&  effectually  as  if  1  my  selfe  were  present.  Ratcfying  &c. 
Coram  mcipo  &  Johe  Cogan  inn1!  [1.  6.] 

Joseph   Faber   of    London,   Cooper,   sells    to    Christopher 
Stanley 1  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  Tayler,  one  house  and  garden 


1  Christopher  Stanley,  of  Boston,  came 
in  1635,  and  died  eleven  years  after. 
Savage  thinks  lie  was  called  "  tayler " 
because  a  member  of  the  Company  of 
Merchant  Taylors  of  London.  The  only 
argument  for  this  known  to  me  is  that  he 
is  often  called  Mr.  Stanley,  or  Mr.  Chris 
topher  Stanley.  Besides  the  property 
here  spoken  of  he  purchased  of  the  town, 
a  few  years  before  his  death,  several  acres 
of  the  marsh  in  the  Mill-Held  opposite 
Charlestown,  where  he  built  a  wharf. 

Joseph  Faber,  now  called  of  London, 
though  he  may  at  the  time  have  been 
in  Boston,  had  for  some  years  been  of 
Boston,  where  he  came  in  1637,  but 
stayed  only  a  year  or  so.  lie  is  men 
tioned  in  Winthrop,  however,  as  being 
in  Boston  in  September,  1610,  which 
must  have  been  a  full  year  after  the 
present  entry. 

John  Kveret,  alias  Webb,  of  course  as 
above,  ]».  60. 

These  two  houses  are  not  very  easy 
to  identify.  Anne  Ormsbee  was  ad 
mitted  to  the  church  at  Boston  in  1634, 
and  recommended  to  the  church  at  Ded- 
ham  in  1639.  She  had  a  grant  of  land 


at  Muddy  River  in  1637  (Boston  Town 
Records,  p.  24),  and  in  the  Book  of  Pos 
sessions  there  is  a  note  in  the  "  Posses 
sions  of  William  Aspinwall  at  Hogg 
Island  one  Acre  of  Upland  and  three 
quarters  of  Marsh  bought  of  Mrs.  Orms 
bee  "  (]).  30).  No  land  is  found  belong 
ing  to  her  in  Boston.  Robert  Rice 
owned  land,  and  had  a  house  on  Fort 
Street  (now  Milk) ;  and  taking  this  as  a 
northern  boundary  would  make  the  lot 
here  mentioned  part  of  Robert  Keayne's 
garden,  in  regard  to  the  boundaries  of 
which  then;  is  some  doubt.  So  it  seems 
as  though  the  question  must  remain  in 
doubt. 

The  other  house  is  entered  in  the 
name  of  Christopher  Stanley  in  the  notes 
on  the  Book  of  Possessions,  p.  96.  The 
note  reads  :  "William  Balston  sold  the 
lot  August,  1638,  when  it  consisted  of 
house,  yard,  garden,  and  elo.se,"  backside 
of  Mr.  Coddington,  "to Thomas  Cornell, 
or  Corn  well,  who  sold  to  Edward  Tyng, 
1643,  and  he  to  Christopher  Stanley." 
This  statement  does  not  agree  with  the 
present  entry  ;  and  I  must  think  that 
the  deed  from  which  it  is  drawn  (Book 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  147 

lying  in  Boston  aforesaid,  bctweene  the  house  of  Rob1  Rice  on 
the  north  pfc  and  the  house  late  Mr.ls  Ormisbyes  on  the  south 
partc,  halfe  an  acre  and  3  rodds  more  or  lessc  wth  the  appur 
tenances,  for  101  10s.  A  bond  to  pay  the  1G*  10s.  at  the  house 
aforesd 

John  Evcrct  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  planter,  and  Mary,  his 
wife,  sells  to  the  sayd  Christoper  [Stanley]  one  house 
<fe  garden  thereto  belonging,  lying  in  Boston  betweene 
the  houses  of  Richard  Bellingham  Esq1:  on  the  east  parte 
&  the  house  of  Thomas  Buttolph  on  the  west,  for  501  in 
hand. 

And  the  first  house  to  be  made  over  to  the  said  John 
Evcrct, 

Nathaniel  Ending  1  of  Boston,  in  New  England,  servant  of 
John  Cogan  of  the  same,  merchant,  aged  about  18  yeares, 
sworne  saith  upon  his  oath,  that  John  Harrison  late  of 
Boston  aforesaid,  gent,  being  heretofore  indebted  unto 
this  deponent's  said  master,  did  upon  the  eleventh  Day  of 
January  last  past  make  over  and  sell  unto  him  one 
marc  in  Discharge  of  foureteene  pounds  of  the  said  debt 
[97]  and  promised  to  pay  the  residue  thereof,  being  twenty 
two  pounds,  unto  his  said  master  at  or  before  the  first 
day  of  May  last  past,  for  the  wch  payment  the  said  John 
Harrison  set  his  hand  unto  a  note  or  writing  now  shewed 
to  this  Deponent,  whereto  this  deponent  also  set  his  name 
as  at  witnessc.  [Is.] 


To  the  right  Honorable  his  Mats  Judges  &  Justices  & 
others  whomc  it  may  conccrne  the  Certificate  of  Increase 
Nowell  Esqr  -one  of  the  Assistants  &  Secretary  for  the  Juris- 
diccon  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  Knowe  yee 

of  Possessions,  pp.   16,    17)   referred  to  tioncd  in  any  other  authority  known  to 

some  other   lot   of  land.     This   lot  in  me  goes  towards  showing  either  that  he 

question  was  on  Washington  Street,  near  was  in  Boston  for  a  short  time  only,  or 

Cornliill,  directly  opposite  the  house  of  that  he  lived  the  most  retired  life  im- 

Major  Edward  Gibbons  and  the  shops  of  aginaHe.     One  would  at  least  suppose 

Thomas  Savage  and  John  Newgate.  that  a  servant  to  John  Cogan  could  be 

1  That  Nathaniel  Eiiflins  is  unmen-  found  on  the  church  register. 


148  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

that  upon  the  eighth  Day  of  August  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of 
the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  now  King  of  Eng 
land  <fec.  Nathaniel  Enfling  came  before  me  <fe  tooke  his  corpo- 
rall  oath  in  these  words  following  ssc.  &c.  wch  at  tlic  special  1 
instance  <t  request  of  the  above  named  John  Cogan  I  have 
thought  good  to  Certify  In  testimony  whereof  I  have  here 
unto  set  my  hand  &  scale  the  said  eighth  Day  of  August  in 
the  fifteenth  yearc  aforesaid.  [2.  0.] 

Be  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  John 
Cogan  of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  Doe  hereby  con 
stitute  ordeync  and  appoint  &  in  my  place  put  my  welbeloved 
ffreind  Nicholas  Carwithye  Citizen  &  Grocer  of  Exeter  my 
true  <fc  lawfull  Atturney  and  Procurator  for  me  &  in  my  name 
to  Demand  <fc  receive  of  the  Executors  of  the  last  will  <fe 
testament  of  Ignatius  Jordan  Alderman  of  Exefer  aforesaid 
or  of  the  Administrators  of  his  goods  rights  &  credits  who 
or  whomsoever  they  arc  or  shall  be  the  summe  of  sixty  six 
pounds  thirtccnc  shillings  &  foure  pence  payable  unto  me  my 
lawfull  Atturney  or  assigncs  by  bill  or  bond  under  the  baud 
&  scale  of  the  said  Ignatius  wthin  a  certaine  tyme  after  his 
Death  as  by  the  said  bill  or  bond  remayning  in  the  hands  & 
custody  of  my  said  Atturney  it  Doth  &  may  appeare  And  for 
that  end  &  purpose  to  sue  arrest  &  impleade  or  cause  to  be 
sued  arrested  &  impleaded  the  sayd  Executors  or  administra 
tors  for  the  said  money  &  the  same  of  them  to  recover  in  any 
Court  or  Courts  whatsoever  And  also  to  demand  &  receive 
all  it  every  such  legacy  &  legacyes  gift  &  gifts  bequest  & 
bequests  by  the  said  Ignatius  in  and  by  his  last  will  <t  testa 
ment  given  or  that  shall  be  given  unto  me  my  wife  or  chil 
dren  and  to  that  end  £  purpose  to  sue  arrest  &  -impleade  or 
cause  to  be  sued  arrested  &  impleaded  the  said  Executors  for 
the  said  legacy  &  legacyes  gift  &  gifts  bequest  <fe  bequests  and 
the  same  of  them  to  recover  in  any  Court  or  Courts  whatso 
ever  for  me  &  my  wife  and  children  or  any  of  us  and  in  my 
name  &  theirs  or  any  of  our  names  And  upon  receipt  of  the 
said  money  legacy  and  legacyes  gift  &  gifts  bequest  &  be 
quests  to  make  &  give  unto  the  said  Executors  or  Administra- 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  149 

tors  sufficient  acquittance  and  release  acquittances  &  releases 
[98]  for  me  my  wife  &  children  or  any  of  us  and  in  my  name 
&  theirs  or  the  name  of  any  of  us  as  the  case  shall 
require  and  further  to  make  <t  doe  all  &  every  other  lawfull 
<fc  reasonable  act  £  acts  thing  &  things  for  &  touching 
the  receipt  &  recovery  of  the  said  money  legacy  &  legacyes 
gift  &  gifts  bequest  <fe  bequests  as  powerfully  &  effectually 
as  if  I  myselfe  &  my  wife  &  children  or  any  of  us  were 
present  Ratefying  &c.  Coram  meipo  &  Johe  Cogan  iun' 
[2.  C.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whomc  these  presents  shall  come 
I  Joseph  Faber  of  London  Couper  send  greeting  in  our  Lord 
God  everlasting  Knowe  yee  that  I  for  sixteene  pounds  and 
tonne  shillings  to  me  in  hand  payd  by  Christopher  Stanley 
of  Boston  in  New  England  Taylor  Doe  hereby  grant  bargaine 
&  sell  unto  the  said  Christopher  all  that  my  house  &  garden 
conteyning  halfe  an  acre  and  three  rods  be  it  more  or  lesse 
lying  &  being  in  Boston  aforesaid  bctwecne  the  house  & 
lands  of  Robert  Rice  Northward  &  the  house  &  lands  late 
M1?3  Ormesbycs  southward  and  all  commons  &  appurtenances 
thereto  belonging  To  have  &,  to  hold  the  said  house  &  garden 
&  all  &  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances  unto  the 
said  Christopher  Stanley  his  heires  &  assignes  for  ever.  In 
witnesse  w hereof  I  have  hereunto  sett  my  hand  &  scale  the 
seaventh  day  of  the  sixth  moneth  in  the  (fifteenth  ycare  of 
the  raigne  of  our  soveraigne  Lord  Charles  now  King  of  Eng 
land  <tc.  Annoqr  Dili  1639.  Coram.  Jo.  Webb,  Richo  Waite 
&  meipo.  [2s.] 

Me  Christofern  Stanley  De  Boston  in  N.  A.  Scissorena 
tener'  £c.  Josepho  Faber  in  triginta  &  Duabus  libris  &c. 
Dat'  7.  G.  1639.  Coram.  Jo.  Webb  Rico  Waitc  <fc  meipo. 

Condidoned  for  payment  of  16  10s.  at  or  in  the  said  house 
unto  the  said  Joseph  his  executors  &c.  [Is.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall  come 
We  John  Everet  of  Boston  in  New  England  Planter  &  Mary 


1^0  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTEBOOK. 

Everet  wife  of  the  said  John  send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God 
everlasting  Knowe  yee  that  we  for  fifty  pounds  to  us  in 
hand  satisfyed  &  payd  by  Christofer  Stanley  of  Boston 
aforesayd  Tayler  Doe  by  these  presents  grant  bargaine  &  sell 
unto  the  said  Christofer  all  that  our  house  &  garden  thereto 
belonging  lying  &  being  in  Boston  aforesaid  betweene  the 
house  &  lands  of  Richard  Bellingham  Esq*  eastward  &  the 
house  &  lands  of  Thomas  Buttolph  westward  and  all  Com 
mons  &  appurtcnanees  thereto  belonging  To  have  and  to  hold 
the  said  house  &  garden  <fc  all  &  singulare  the  prmises  wth 
the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Chrifer  Stanley  his  heires  & 
assignes  for  ever.  In  witnesse  &c.  Dat'  ut  supra.  Coram : 
Josepho  Faber,  Rico  Waite  £  meipo.  [2s.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  whoine  these  presents  shall  come 
I  Christofr  Stanley  of  Boston  in  New  England  tayler  send 
greeting  in  our  [99]  Lord  God  everlasting  Knowe  yee  that  I 
for  and  in  consideration  of  the  grant  of  one  house  <fc  garden 
lying  in  Boston  aforesaid  betweene  the  house  &  lands  of 
Richard  Dcllingham  Esq?  Eastward  &  the  house  &  lands  of 
Thomas  Buttolph  westward  unto  me  made  by  John  Everet 
of  Boston  aforesaid  planter  &  Mary  Everet  his  wife  before 
the  sealing  &  delivery  hereof  Doe  by  these  presents  grant 
bargaine  &  sell  unto  the  said  John  &  Mary  all  that  my 
house  &  garden  conteyning  halfc  an  acre  &  three  rodds  be 
it  more  or  lesse  lying  &  being  in  Boston  aforesaid  betweene 
the  house  and  lands  of  Robert  Rice  Northward  &  the 
house  &  lands  late  Mr.'3  Ormesbyes  southward  and  all  com 
mons  &  appurtenances  thereto  belonging  &  the  deed  of 
Joseph  Faber  concerning  the  same  To  have  and  to  hold 
the  said  last  mentioned  house  &  garden  and  all  &  singu 
lare  the  prmises  wth  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  John 
and  Mary  their  heires  and  assignes  for  ever.  In  witnesse 
&c.  Dat'  ut  Supa.  Coram.  Josepho  Faber  Rico  Waite  & 
meipo.  [26-.] 

Christoper  Stanley  for  101   10s.  Assignes  the  boy,  and  all 
writings   concerning   him,   Richard    Bayly,  to   be   bound   to 


LECHWRD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  151 

Isaackc  Cullimorc  1  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  Carpenter,  his  appren 
tice,  to  serve  him  from  24.  4.  ult°  for  7  yeares,  &  to  give  him 
an  owe  kidtl  at  the  end  of  foure  yeares  if  he  doe  his  duty,  and 
5  at  the  end  of  the  termc,  ineate,  drinke  &  clothes,  &  Double 
apparell  when  he  goes  forth.  8.  (3.  1G39.  Corain  Tho :  Pay  li 
ter  &  mcipo.  [2s.  Gd] 

Anne  Colcman  of  Watertowne  in  N.  E.  spinster,  aged  10 
yeares,  and  Samuel  Hosier  1  of  the  same,  her  tutor  &  gar- 
dian  make  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Jeffery  Coleman  of 
Colchester  in  the  county  of  Essex,  Saymaker,  and  James 
Wade  of  the  same,  Clothier,  their  atturneys  to  receive  of  the 
Executors  of  William  Coleman  late  of  Colchester  aforesaid, 
Saymaker,  Deceased,  the  summe  of  5*  or  any  other  summe 
or  legacy  given  her  by  the  last  will  &  testament  of  the  said 
Willm  her  father.  8.  6.  1639.  Coram  Gubcrn.,  Robto  Feke 
<fc  ni(Mpf).  [Is.  Gd.~] 

John  Cogan  aged  about  seventeene  yeares  2  sonnc  of  John 
Cogan  of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant,  sworno,  saith 
upon  his  oath  that  this  Deponent,  for  his  said  father  Deliv 
ered  at  diverse  times  bctweene  the  13th  day  of  fi'ebruary  and 
the  17th  day  of  Aprill  last  past,  unto  John  Harrison  late  of 
Boston  aforesaid,  gent.,  and  to  some  others  by  his  directions  as 
this  deponent  believeth,  for  his  use  &  behoofe,  these  wares  at 
these  prices  following,  that  is  to  say, 

1  Isaac  Cullimoro  (which  seems  the          *  Anne  Coleman  and  Samuel  Hosier 

more  common  way  of  spelling  the  name)  did  not  get  their  live  pounds  as  soon  as 
is  called  a  shipwright  by  Savage  ;  on  what  seemed  well  to  them,  and  made  a  second 
evidence  I  cannot  say.  His  most  prom-  letter  of  attorney  — to  whom  I  know  not 
inent  appearance  in  the  Town  Record  is  —  for  the  same  purpose.  See  p.  167,  post. 
as  being  appointed  to  look  to  the  car-  2  Savage  speaks  of  John  Cogan,  Jr., 
riages  and  wheels  of  the  great  artillery,  admitted  freeman  in  1642,  as  being  son 
In  the  Colonial  Record,  also,  he  is  spoken  of  Humphrey,  who  never  came  to  New 
of  as  mending  carriages,  so  that  one  England.  I  think  this  must  be  a  mis- 
would  think  that  he  was  something  of  take,  for  it  very  clearly  says  in  this 
a  wheelwright.  He  lived  near  Gallop's  place  that  John  Cogan,  Jr.,  was  the  son 
Point,  on  the  water-side,  by  the  ship-  of  John.  His  age,  now  about  seventeen, 
yards  of  Nehemiah  Bourne  and  Thomas  would  make  him  twenty  or  twenty-one 
Hawkins,  the  shipwrights,  and  Thomas  when  he  took  the  freeman's  oath,  May 
Joy,  the  carpenter.  18,  1642. 


152  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

One  payre  of  wosted  stock!  ns  at  six  shillings  six  pence, 
one  payer  of  wosted  stockins  at  eight  shillings, 
fou  re  Dozen  of  tobacco  pipes  at  two  shillings, 
hard  sealing  wax  at  three  pence, 
one  paire  of  wosted  stockins  at  eight  shillings, 
two  payre  of  stockins  at  twelve  shillings  and  eight  pence, 
nynoteene  yards  of  white  fustian  at  twenty  eight  shillings  six  pence, 
eleven  yards  and  one  quarter  of  white  Diinmety  at  sixteene  shillings 

ten  pence, 
one  paire  of  stockins  at  twenty  pence, 

in  all  coinming  to  foure.  pounds  foure  shillings  &  five  pence. 


Letter  of  Atturney  by  Samuel  Appleton  of  Ipswich  in  N. 
E.  g.  made  to  Isaacke  Appleton  &  al.  twice  ingrosscd  8.  6. 
1639.  sealed  Coram.  Gubern.  Willo  Ilubbard  <fc  meipo. 

James  Brockc  mariner  agl.  the  Governor  &  Society  of  the 
Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England,  for  30*  worth  of  butter, 
chese  and  other  provisions  to  Block  Island  voyage  in  the 
warres  ag4.  the  Pecots  in  or  about  the  moneth  of  July,  Anno 
1636,  and  Dammages  for  the  same  ever  since  to  his  Dam- 
mage  601  Declaration  to  be  drawen.  [Is.] 

[100]  A  letter  of  Attorney  made  by  James  Brocke  of 
Ratcliffe  in  the  County  of  Midd.,  mariner,  to  myselfe  to  sue 
&  recover  of  the  Governor  &  Company  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  in  N.  E.  the  said  301  &  Dammages.  9.  6.  1639.1 
Coram.  [Is.] 

A  Letter  of  Attorney  p  eundem  to  myselfe  to  answere 
Joseph  Bachcller  in  a  plea  of  trespass  upon  the  case  for 
words,  9.  6.  1639.  Coram  [0.  4J.] 

Francis  Godsome2  of  Lynne  in  N.  E.  h.  doth  give  grant  & 
enfeoffe  unto  John  Fuller  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  ioyner  all»  that 

1  This    letter   of    attorney   will    be  Fuller  was  a  somewhat  common  one,  but 
found    more    fully    in    the    Note-book,  I  am  unable  to  identify  either  of  those 
p.   101.  here   mentioned.      Of  the   three  asses- 

2  We  unfortunately  know  little  more  sors,  Knight  is  probably  the  mason  of 
than  is  here  stated  of  any  one  of  the  con-  Salem,  who  had  a  grant  of  land  in  1637, 
tracting  parties.     Godson  is  mentioned  mentioned   by   Savage  ;    the  other   two 
in  Mass.  Col.  lice.,  i.   123.     The  name  are  unknown. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  153 

his  house  and  homo  lott  conteyning  five  acres  and  three 
acres  of  meadow  and  thirty  acres  of  wood  &  upland  thereto 
belonging  &  all  privileges  &  accommodations  thereto  be 
longing  by  the  Townesnicns  grant  or  promise, —  if  Edward 
Fuller  of  Olney  in  the  County  of  Bucks  yeoman  shall  pay  unto 
the  said  F  :  GO1  on  or  before  the  second  day  of  February  next. 

Articles.  That  John  Fuller  may  refuse  the  bargainc  and 
require  his  money  at  returne,  but  if  Allen  Brade  Edward 
Farrington  &  William  Knight  shall  deem  the  premises  worth 
001  then  to  pay  51  for  dam  :  to  Francis. 

Not  to  receive  the  money  if  before  the  day  Jo.  F:  send 
word  of  dislike  but  if  dislike  by  letter  come  afterwards  then 
to  return  the  money  to  his  father. 

Either  to  refuse  the  bargain  for  51 

If  in  the  mean  while  the  said  Francis  improve  and  manage 
the  premises  from  May  day  next  he  is  to  be  payd  reasonably 
if  the  bargaine  take  not  effect. 

Jo. ;  Fuller  to  receive  of  Rich.  Brooks  [  of  Lynnc  40s.  & 
of  Dunton  20s.  towards  making  of  sellerage,  and  4  daycs 
worke  of  Edward  Weeden  carpenter.  [Vacat.] 

\_Thc.  above  entry  crossed  out.] 

John  Crabtree 2  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  joyner,  to  receive 
Solomon  (Jrcenc  sonnc  of  John  Greene  of  Iladley  in  Stiff 
clothier  his  apprentice  for  7  yeares  &  1  yeare  a  journeyman 
&  wages  for  that  yearc  81,&  space  for  what  money  to  be 
repaid.  Dat' 12.  6.  1639.  Coram  Gub:  £  mcipsc.  [2s.  Gt?.] 

John  Crabtree  and  William  Hudson 3  the  younger  {fisher 
man  to  have  the  one  the  sonnc  the  other  Mary  Greene  the 

1  Richard  Brooks  lived  in  Lynn  sonic         2  John  Crabtree  was  sufficiently  well 

time    before    removing  (16f)0)   to    East-  known   as  a  carpenter.     He  may  have 

haniptou,  L.I.      Edward  Weeden — gen-  been  a  good  one,  though  he  sometimes 

erally   called    of    Boston  —  eame    from  charged  too  much  (J/h&s.  CW.  7Jee.,i.  301, 

England  in  the  same  ship  ("  Susan  and  327).     Of  the  Greenes  —  father,  son,  and 

Ellen,"  1635)  as   Richard   Brooks.     As  daughter  —  I  can  find  nothing, 
for  Dunton,   I  cannot  fix  him.     There         3  William    Hudson    the    younger  — 

were  Dun  tons  of  Reading,  at  this  time  probably  the  son  of  William  Hudson  the 

a  part  of  Lynn.  innkeeper  —  was    at    this    time    about 


154  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

daughter  apprentices  <fc  to  be  guardians  &  receive  111  a  yeare 
for  the  2  children  as  tutors  masters  and  guardians  of  the 
said  children.  William  Richardson  of  Iladley  in  Suffolk  gent 
Executor,  Josuah  Foot  of  London  Ironmonger  &  Thomas 
Ilughson  citizen  merchant  of  London  Attorneys.  Coram 
Rico.  Saltonstall  l  &  meipsc.  Under  the  Common  Scale  and 
that  the  said  Solomon  and  Mary  choose  the  tutors  &  guar 
dians  abovesaid  before  the  Governor.  The  agreement  also 
put  scquctur  in  the  next  leaf  but  one.  [2s.  GJ.] 

[101]  To  all  Christian  people  <tc  I  Samuel  Appleton 2  of 
Ipswich  in  N.  E.  g.  send  greeting  in  our  Lord  God  everlasting 
Knowe  yec  that  I  the  said  S.  have  ordcyncd  <t  constituted  & 
made  and  in  my  place  have  put  and  by  these  presents  do  or- 
deync  constitute  make  &  in  my  place  put  my  wcllbeloved  in 
Christ  I.  A.  J.  0.  I).  R.  11.  S.  &  R.  S.  my  true  and  lawfull 
Atturneys  and  deputyes  all  or  the  greater  number  of  them  for 
me  <fc  in  my  name  to  enter  on  lawfully  and  to  make  a  lease 
or  leases  of  all  or  any  of  the  lands  and  tenements  both  free 
hold  and  Coppihold  whatsoever  of  me  the  said  S.  situate  lying 
and  being  in  Monkes  Elye  in  the  aforesaid  County  of  Suff. 
with  leave  of  the  Lorde  of  the  Manor  whereof  the  said  Coppi 
hold  lands  arc  held  for  and  touching  such  lands  for  any  terme 
of  yeares  not  exceeding  the  number  of  seaven  yearcs  from  the 
time  of  the  making  of  such  lease  or  leases  and  so  as  no  such 
lease  or  leases  be  made  in  reversion  but  the  same  to  be  made 
only  in  possession  and  under  what  rent  &  rentes  and  upon 

twenty  years  old.  He  is  here  called  time  was  an  assistant.  The  governor 
fishcM-tmn.  Later  he  was  in  a  company  here  spoken  of  was  John  "Winthrop,  Sr. 
of  vintners  (Muss.  Col.  Ilcc..,  ii.  277),  but  2  Samuel  Appleton  was  one  of  the 
very  probably  he  turned  his  hand  to  first  settlers  at  Ipswich  in  103(5.  He 
whatever  came  uppermost.  He  served  was  chosen  representative  in  1637,  and 
in  the  Parliamentary  war  in  England,  in  the  same  year  was  chosen  assistant 
being  ensign  in  Mr.  John  Leverett's  justice  at  Ipswich.  The  persons  men- 
foot  company  ( 11'inth.,  ii.  245),  and  died  tioned  as  attorneys  I  have  not  the  means 
in  the  summer  of  1681.  of  identifying.  Isaac  Appleton  was 
1  Richard  Saltonstall  came  to  Massa-  probably  either  the  son  or  brother  of 
chusetts  with  his  father  1630,  but  re-  Samuel,  who  had  a  grandson  bearing 
turned  soon  to  England.  lie  came  back  that  name. 
to  Massachusetts,  however,  and  at  this 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  155 

what  Covenants  &  Conditions  my  said  Attorneys  or  the  greater 
number  of  them  shall  see  fitting  and  also  from  time  to  time 
to  discharge  place  and  displace  lawfully  all  and  singular  the 
tenants  that  now  or  hereafter  shall  be  of  any  the  said  lands 
or  tenements.  And  also  from  time  to  time  to  fell  cut  up  & 
take  off  or  cause  to  be  felled  cut  up  &  taken  off  all  or  any  the 
woods  &  timber  now  growing  or  being  or  wch  hereafter  shall 
growe  or  be  upon  the  said  freehold  lands  and  also  upon  the 
said  Coppihold  lands  with  lease  of  the  Lord  of  the  said  Manor 
for  the  wood  and  timber  on  such  lands  &  to  sell  the  same  wood 
and  timber  for  the  use  of  me  the  said  Samuel  and  from  time 
to  time  to  take  and  receive  to  the  use  of  me  the  said  Samuel 
or  my  assignes  all  rentes  issues  &  profitts  of  the  aforesaid 
premises  wch  now  are  due  or  wch  at  any  time  hereafter  shall 
growe  or  be  due  to  me  the  said  Samuel  out  of  the  prmises 
aforesaid  And  generally  to  do  execute  and  perform  all  and 
every  lawful  act  and  acts  thing  and  things  for  and  in  the 
name  of  me  the  said  S.  as  I  shall  by  any  letter  or  writing 
under  my  hand  &  warrant  appoint  or  allowe  to  be  done 
executed  or  performed  as  amply  &  fully  as  I  the  said  S.  in 
my  owne  proper  person  may  or  might  doe.  Hereby  ratifying 
&  confirming  all  &  every  thing  whatsoever  they  or  the  greater 
number  of  them  shall  lawfully  doe  in  the  prmiscs.  In  wit- 
ncssc  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  &  scale  this 
eighth  Day  of  August  in  the  fifteenth  ycare  of  the  raigne 
of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  now  King  of  England  <fec 
Annoqr  Dni  1639.  Signed  sealed  &  delivered  in  the  presence 
of  Will :  Hubbard  &  mei  T ho :  Lcchford  scriptoris  liujus. 
And  I  John  Winthrop  Esq?  Governor  of  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  in  New  England  having  seen  these  presents  signed  scaled 
&  delivered  in  my  presence  have  at  the  request  of  the  above- 
named  Samuel  Appleton  caused  the  common  scale  of  our 
Colony  to  be  hereunto  affixed  the  day  of  the  date  thereof. 

SAMUEL  APPLETON. 

JOHN  WINTIIROP  : 

Twice  written  &  ingrossed.      [6s.  Sd.     Attorneys  —  Isaack 
Appleton  ar.,  Jo  :  Gurdon  ar.,  Dan  :  Rogers  cl.,  Ri :  Stansby  cl., 


156 


LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Ri :  Sebbornc  cl.,  I  Ap:  ar.  do  little  Waldingfield  in  Com  Suff. 
&  Henry  Smith  Dr  of  Divinity  <fe  Master  of  Magdalen  College 
in  Cambridge.] 

[102]  William  Hutcliinson l  of  Aquidnecke  in  New  Eng 
land  gent  and  Samuel  Hutcliinson  Brother  of  tlie  said  Wil 
liam  convey  to  Richard  Ilutchiiison  citizen  &  ironmonger 
of  London  all  that  their  dwelling  house  in  Boston  in  New 
England  and  the  garden  or  orchard  thereunto  adjoyning  and 
all  conrte  yardcs  stables  stalles  outhouses  commons  &  appur 
tenances  thereunto  belonging  parte  of  wch  house  &  garden  was 
heretofore  purchased  by  the  sd  Wm.  of  John  Coggeshall 2 
late  of  Boston  aforesaid  merchant  and  the  rest  of  the  prem 
ises  was  assigned  to  the  said  Willm  by  the  Townesmen  of 


1  The  names  of  various  of  the  Hut- 
chinson  family  repeatedly  occur  in  Lech- 
ford.  Mr.  Savage  has  published  a  careful 
enumeration  of  the  different  members 
in  his  Gcucahrtjical  DictiuiHtry.  It  will 
make  clearer  the  papers  relating  to  the 
family  which  occur  later  in  the  Note-look 
to  remember  that  William  Hutcliinson, 
the  husband  of  the  famous  Anne,  had 
brothers, —  Richard,  of  London;  Samuel, 
of  Boston;  and  Edward,  of  the  same. 
His  sons  were  Edward,  who  came  to  New 
England  before  his  father,  Richard,  and 
others  who  are  not  mentioned  in  Lech- 
ford.  Of  these  brothers,  Richard  never 
came  to  New  England  at  all.  William 
came  to  New  England  in  1631  with  his 
wife  and  all  his  sons  save  Edward.  He 
was  forced  through  church  troubles  to 
remove  in  1638  to  Rhode  Island,  where, 
with  Aspinwall,  Coddington,  and  others, 
he  formed  a  political  community,  of 
which,  in  their  second  year,  he  was 
chosen  ruler  or  judge.  He  died  about 
1642.  Samuel  was  of  Boston.  He  was 
involved,  with  the  rest  of  his  family,  in 
the  Aiitinoniian  dispute  [Mass.  Col.  Rcc. 
i.  207,  338).  He  may  or  may  not  have 
gone  with  his  brother 'William  to  Aquid- 
neck,  where  he  had  a  grant  of  land,  May 


20,  1638.  He  is  subsequently  mentioned 
by  Lech  ford,  however.  Edward,  the 
brother,  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Note 
book,  except  perhaps  ante,  p.  93.  Ho 
went  to  Rhode  Island,  and  from  there 
to  England.  Of  the  sons,  Edward  and 
Richard  are  the  only  ones  mentioned  by 
Lech  ford.  Edward  came  to  Boston  a 
year  before  his  father  and  mother.  With 
his  father  he  removed  to  Rhode  Island, 
but  shortly  afterward  returned  to  Bos 
ton.  He  served  in  King  Philip's  war, 
where  he  received  a  wound  of  which  he 
died  Aug.  17,  1675.  Richard  came  from 
England  with  his  father,  but  returned 
to  London  before  the  other  members  of 
the  family  moved  to  Rhode  Island.  He 
is  repeatedly  referred  to  in  the  Note-book, 
as  well  as  his  shop,  —  The  Angel  and 
Star,  in  Cheapside,  London. 

2  John  Coggeshall,  another  sympa 
thizer  with  Mrs.  Hutcliinson  and  Mr. 
Wheelwright,  also  went  to  Newport, 
where  he  became  one  of  the  principal 
men,  as  he  had  before  been  in  Boston. 
The  house  and  garden  alluded  to  were 
on  what  is  now  the  corner  of  School 
and  Washington.  The  Old  Corner 
Bookstore  occupies  a  portion  of  the 
property. 


LECllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  157 

Boston  aforcsd  by  common  consent  and  order  of  the  generall 
court.     [3s.  4001  consider.] 

Edward  Ilutchinson  of  Boston  in  New  England  mercer  and 
Srgcant  Thomas  Savage  l  of  the  same  doc  convey  unto  the 
said  Richard  Hutch:  all  that  our  farmc  house  &  other  build- 
inges  thereunto  adjoyning  and  all  the  gardens  yardes  and 
outhouses  tliereto  belonging  lying  &  being  in  the  precincts  of 
Dorchester  in  New  England  and  all  that  parcell  of  land  called 
a  farmc  Arc.  and  to  thatch  the  new  buildings  daub  flic  chim 
ney  lay  the  floores  &  hang  the  doores  thereof  &  10  acres  of 
moadow  lying  on  the  east  side  of  Ncponsct  river  heretofore 
had  in  exchange  of  Captaine  Stoughton  for  so  much  lying  over 
ag:  it  on  the  other  side  of  the  s(1  river  lying  next  to  fhc  mill 
there  and  so  along  the  said  river :  a  farmc  lying  on  the  east 
side  of  Neponsett  river  bounded  in  on  the  east  side  with  an 
high  Ridge  wch  is  Boston  Bounds  on  the  west  side  with  a 
frcshc  brookc  called  Unkataquassctt  and  for  the  length  of  it 
to  riinnc  one  hundred  and  sixty  poles  into  the  land  wth  all 
the  meadow  lying  before  it  as  it  is  bounded  with  a  greate 
salte  cricke  unto  the  aforesaid  high  ridge  as  also  tonne  acres 
of  meadowe  or  thereabout  lying  on  the  west  syde  of  the  afore 
said  fresh  brooke  with  one  little  house  and  one  frame  with  all 
the  timbers  and  appurtenances  thereto  belonging  cither  falling 
or  standingc.  All  wch  said  farmc  &  lands  came  unto  us  by 
purchase  from  William  Ilutchinson  ffather  of  me  the  said 
Edward  who  purchased  the  same  of  Bray  Rossitcr2  gent,  to 
whomc  the  sd  premisses  came  by  purchase  from  the  Indians  & 
granted  by  the  Court  &  Towne  wth  all  rights  priviledgcs  com 
mons  in  Necks  of  Land  Islands  or  Inlands  with  all  other  appur 
tenances  thereunto  belonging.  [3s.  Sd.  820*  Consideration, 
againc  written  Is.  Sd.  and  other  writingcs  toto.  Ss.  4r/.] 

1  Sergeant  Thomas  Savage,  born  1608,  turned  to  Boston,  where  he  died   Feb. 

married    Faith,    daughter    of    William  14,  1632. 

Ilutchinson.     He  was  disarmed  in  1637  2  Bray  Rossiter  was   of  Dorchester, 

for  his  sympathy  with  Mrs.  Hutchinson  1631,  but  removed  to  Winsor,    Conn., 

and  Wheelwright,  and  removed  to  Rhode  and   then   to  Guilford;   he   died   1672. 

Island  with  the    Hutchinsons,  but   re-  John  Gore  was  of   Roxbury.     William 

Wvatt  I  have  been  unable  to  find. 


158  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

These  deeds  attested  <fc  scaled  by  John  Gore  to  William 
Wyatt  before  the  governor  &  the  common  scale  affixed  12.  6. 
1039.  Coram  Jacobo  Brock  &  meipsc.  [3s.  Gt/.] 

[103]  Memorandum  that  the  Agreement  bctwccno  Eliza 
beth  Lcger  l  for  her  sonne  Solomon  and  John  Crabtree  is 
that  the  said  John  Crabtree  shall  have  to  his  ownc  use  and 
behoof  c  for  receiving  the  said  Solomon  to  apprentice  and  with 
him  the  yearely  summe  of  five  pounds  &  tenne  shillings  from 
the  executor  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  John  Greene 
within  named  if  the  said  Elizabeth  so  long  live  and  the  said 
John  Crabtree  in  regard  thereof  shall  pay  &  allowe  twenty 
pounds  unto  the  said  Solomon  at  the  end  of  the  terme  of 
seaven  yearcs  within  mentioned  according  to  the  true  meaning 
of  these  present  Indentures.  Witnesses  hereunto  William 
Hudson  &  myself  and  M*  Governor  knows"  the  agreement 
also.  [Is.] 


A  letter  of  Attorney  made  by  [w™l-]  of  [Wanfc]  in  New 
England  to  Robert  Harrington  of  ITatfield  Broadokc  in  the 
County  of  Essex  Esqf  and  Robert  Keayne  of  Boston  in  New 
England  merchant  to  receive  of  Thomas  Coney  of  Staple  Line 
London  gent  the  summe  of  2001  dat'  13.  6.  1639.  [Is.] 

A  letter  for  M?  Cogan  &  M*  Keayne.    13.  6.  1639.    [Is.  Gil] 

A  letter  of  Atiurney  by  Benjamin  Keayne2  of  Boston  in 
N.  E.  gent  to  Toby  as  Dixon  citizen  &  mercer  of  London  to 
receive  5*  of  John  Harrison  gent  upon  bill.  14.  6.  1639. 
Coram.  [1.] 

A  letter  to  James  Brock  e  about  M?  Peters  letter  &  the 
Governors  answer  thereupon  to  stay  the  cause  betweene  M.r 
Bachellcr  <t  him  till  James  Brocke  returne.  14.  6.  1639. 


1  Elizabeth  Logor  may  be  the  maiden  2  Benjamin   Keayne  was  the  son  of 

name  of   Solomon   Greene's  mother  ;  if  Robert.     He  lived  in  New  England  for 

not,  I  cannot  tell  \\lio  she  is.     Leger  is  some  time,  but  finally  returned  to  Eng- 

not  a  New  England  name.  land  (Savage). 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  159 

Me  John  Hill  do  Boston  in  N.  A.  carpenter  tener1  etc.  Anne 
Garrold  1  in  viginti  libris  etc.  dat'  14.  (5.  1039.  Coram  me  et 
Willo  Han-ell" 

To  pay  her  101  upon  the  24th  of  August  wch  shall  be  in  the 
ycarc  of  our  Lord  1656  at  or  in  the  now  dwelling  house  of 
(icMjrgo  Barrell  situate  in  Boston.  [Is.] 

Timothic  Hatherlcy2  of  Scituato  in  N.  E.  Planter,  pit. 
Joseph  Young3  mariner  deft,  for  80i  of  beaver  worth  151 
delivered  about  ye  29th  8.  1038  upon  1  Nov.  into  the  Mary  & 
Anne  to  his  custody  to  be  carryed  for  England  lost  by  the 
way.  To  procure  a  warrant  against  Young  and  John  Pease 
of  Salem  a  witncsse  to  declare  for  the  pit.  &  write  M?  Ilath- 
crly  a  letter  to  send  some  proof e  of  the  quantity  or  to  make 
oath  himself  thereof.  [2s.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  wheras  Gabriel 
Cornish4  of  Wcymouth  &  Melcomb  Regis  in  the  County  of 
Dorset  mariner  did  by  his  letter  of  Attorney  under  his  hand 
<fc  scale  dated  the  sixth  day  of  May  last  past  authorize  and 
appoint  me  Israel  Stoughton  6  of  Dorchester  in  New  England 

1  Anne  Garrold  may  have  been   the  found  in  Bradford's  History.     Ilatherly 
sister  or  the  wife  of  Henry  Garrold,  of  and  Allerton,  the  latter  principally,  con  - 
Boston,  1C3I\  mentioned  by  Savage.     I  ducted  the   business  of   the    Plymouth 
can  find  the  name  nowhere  else.    George  Colony  with  James  Shirley,  their  Lon- 
Barrel  and  William  Barrel  wen;  brothers;  don  correspondent  and  his  partners, 
and  the  wife  of  George  was  named  Ann;  3  Joseph  Young,   I   suppose,   was  of 
from  which   I  imagine  that  he  married  Salem  (Mass.  Col.  7i'<r.,  ii.   30).     Tease 
Anne   Garrold.     The  house   spoken    of  Avas   in    later    years   a   favorer    of    the 
was  on  Hanover  Street,  a  little   below  Gortonist  movement  (Mass.  Col.  Jtcc., 
Washington    (Book    of  Possessions,    p.  ii.   f)0). 

421).  4  Gabriel  Cornish  never  came  to  this 

2  Timothy    Ilatherly,    one     of    the  country.     There  was  a  Gabriel  Cornish 
principal  first  settlers  at  Scituate,  was  in  Connecticut   toward  the  latter  part 
before  a   London  merchant.     lie  came  of  the  century,  who  might  easily  be  a 
to    Plymouth    in     1623,    and   was   well  descendant  of  this  man. 

known  there  for  some  time,  but  went  G  Israel  Stoughton,  a  prominent  man 
home  again.  He  came  back  again  to  in  Dorchester,  owned  the  mill  alluded 
Boston  in  1032.  He  died  in  1060.  In  to  a  few  pages  hack  in  the  deed  of  Ed- 
regard  to  this  matter,  see  infra.  Much  ward  Hutehinson,  etc.  He  came  to 
in  regard  to  Hatherly,  though  not  per-  America,  says  Savage,  in  1032  ;  was 
tinent  to  the  matter  in  hand,  is  to  be  admitted  freeman  1033;  was  representa- 


1GO  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Esqr  to  receive  of  Thomas  Richards  ]  of  Dorchester  aforesaid 
yeoman  the  suinme  of  one  hundred  pounds  of  lawfull  money 
of  England  wch  should  be  due  unto  him  the  said  Gabriel  from 
the  said  Thomas  Richards  upon  the  thirtieth  day  of  July  then 
next  coming  &  now  last  past  by  a  bond  or  obligation  made 
by  him  unto  the  said  Gabriel  bearing  date  the  foureteenth  day 
of  November  last  past  wch  bond  was  left  heere  at  Dorchester 
aforesaid  in  the  hands  of  Thomas  Millet  tayler  and  upon  pay 
ment  of  the  said  hundred  pounds  to  give  any  manner  of 
Release  acquittance  or  other  legall  discharge  for  the  same  as 
more  at  large  by  the  said  letter  of  Attorney  it  doth  and  [104] 
may  appeare.  And  whereas  the  said  Thomas  Richards  made 
unto  the  said  Gabriel  Cornish  one  other  bond  or  obligation 
for  the  same  money  weh  bond  the  said  Gabriel  carry ed  into 
England  and  by  his  letter  to  me  written  did  promise  to 
canccll  or  deliver  up  the  said  last  menconed  bond  upon  notice 
of  the  payment  of  the  said  one  hundred  pounds  to  me  by 
vertue  of  the  said  letter  of  Atturney  according  to  the  appoint 
ment  or  demand  of  the  said  Thomas  Richards,  Now  knowc 
yee  that  I  have  received  the  said  summe  of  one  hundred 
pounds  of  the  said  Thomas  Richards  according  to  the  forme 
&  effect  of  the  said  bonds  and  letter  of  Attorney,  And  there 
upon  doe  by  these  presents  for  as  much  as  in  me  lyeth  for  and 
in  the  name  of  the  said  Gabriel  remise  release  and  forever 
quitt  clayme  unto  the  sayd  Thomas  Richards  all  and  all 
manner  of  actions  and  demands  wch  the  said  Gabriel  his 
executors  or  administrators  have  or  can  or  may  have  against 
him  the  said  Thomas  Richards  his  heires  executors  or  admin 
istrators  for  and  concerning  the  said  debt  of  one  hundred 
pounds  or  upon  the  sayd  bonds  or  either  of  them. 

And  further  1  doe  hereby  give  &  grant  unto  the  said  Thomas 
Richards  the  said  letter  of  Attorney  safe  and  uncancellcd  to 
have  to  him  his  executors  &  administrators  forever. 

live  in  the  General  Court  for  some  years,          1    Thomas   Eichards's    name    occurs 

and   commanded  the  force  against  the  several  times  in   the   early  Dorchester 

Pequots  in  1037.    He  went  bark  to  Eng-  records,  but  he  removed  soon  after  this 

land,  and  commanded  a  company  for  the  date  to  Weymouth,  where  he  was  living 

Parliament  in  the  Civil  War  ;  but  died  when  he  is  next  mentioned  in  the  Rote- 

of  sickness  at  Lincoln  in  1044.  book. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  101 

In  witnesse  etc.  Dat1  3.  7.  1039.  [3s.  4d.  A  coppy  of  the 
letter  of  Attorney  of  M?  Stoughton  under  scale  of  the  Company. 
Is.  &/.] 

Oinnia  ista  prcrccitata  acta  fuerunt  apud  Boston  in  Nova 
Anglia  coram  me  Johe  Winthrop  Ar  Gubernator  de  le  Matta- 
chusetts  Bay  in  Nova  Anglia  pro  modo  et  forma  prount 
supcrius  scripta  sunt  In  cuius  rei  testimon  nomcn  mcnm  sub- 
seripsi  Sigillumqr  hums  Colonia  commune  prcscntibus  hisce 
apponi  causavi  die  &  anno  ultima  supra  scriptis.1 

To  the  said  letter  of  Attorney  a  publicke  Notary  scaled  & 
subscribed  &  attested  prount 2  sequitur.  Omnia  ista  prcrecitata 
acta  fuerunt  apud  Way  mouth  et  Metcomb  Regis  prd  modo  et 
forma  prount  supcrius  scripta  sunt  In  cuius  rei  tcstimonium 
nomcn  meum  subscripsi  sigillumqr  meum  quo  in  hac  parte 
utor  apponi  causavi  die  et  anno  supra  scriptis. 

BOSTOX  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  10°  August!  Anno  Dmi  1039. 
At  sight  of  this  3  my  first  bill  of  exchange  any  time  after 
the  twentieth  day  of  December  next  coming  my  second  and 
third  not  being  payd  I  pray  you  pay  unto  M*  Robert  Ollley 
Citizen  &  mercer  of  London  or  his  assigns  the  summe  of  fifty 
six  pounds  of  current  money  of  England  for  foure  heyfers  hccre 
received  by  yourself e  of  me  David  Oilley  of  Boston  gent.  I 
pray  make  good  payment.  To  my  very  loving  friend  Thomas 
Nicholls  at  Coggeshall  in  the  County  of  Essex.  [Is.  Gti] 

1  "  All  those  things  set  down  above  according  to  the  form  above  written.    In 
were  done  at  Boston  in  New  England  in  testimony  of  which   I  have  subscribed 
the  presence  of  me,  John  Winthrop,  Es-  my  name  and  have  caused  my  scale  which 
quire,  Oovernour  of  the  Massachusetts  I  here  use  to  be  affixed  on  the  day  and 
Bay  in  New  England  after  the  manner  year  above  written." 

and  according  to  the  form  above  written.          3  There  is  another  bill  of  exchange 

In  testimony  of  which  I  have  subscribed  later  in  the  Note -bank  between  these  two 

my  name  and  have  caused  the  Common  men,  drawn  for  the  benefit  of  Stephen 

Scale  of  this  Colony  to  be  afiixcd   to  Offlcy,   who,   as  well   as  Robert,  seems 

these  presents  on  the  day  and  year  last  never  to  have  come  to  America.  Thomas 

written  above."  Nichols  and  George  Nichols,  mentioned 

2  "  As  follows:  All  these  things  set  in  the  second  bill  of  exchange,  were  also 
down    above   were  done  at  Weymouth  Englishmen,  and  I  believe  never  came 
and  Melcomb  Regis  after  the  manner  and  to  New  England. 

11 


102  LECHFOHD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Articles  of  agreement  made  the  16'A  day  of  the  sixth  moneth  in 
the  ycare  of  our  Lord  1639  Betweene  DAVID  OFFLEY  of 
Boston  in  New  England  <jent  of  the  one  pte  and  SAMUEL 
HOSIER  l  of  Watertoivne  in  New  England  Planter  of  the 
other  pte  asfolloweth. 

Imprimis  It  is  agreed  betwecnc  the  partyes  abovesayd  that 
they  shall  &  will  be  partners  together  in  procuring  sturgian 
to  be  taken  &  cured  and  sold  at  Yarmouth  in  New  England  or 
elswherc  for  &  during  the  space  of  foure  ycares  from  the  day 
of  the  date  hereof. 

[105]  Item  that  the  saycl  partyes  shall  beare  equall  charges 
therabout. 

Item  that  they  shall  have  equall  profitts  and  account 
to  each  other  upon  reasonable  demand  from  time  to  tyme 
during  the  said  tcrme. 

Item  that  they  shall  not  doc  anything  contrary  to  the 
mindes  of  cacli  other  thcrabouts. 

Item  that  neither  of  them  shall  admit  of  any  other  partner 
or  partners  without  each  others  consent. 

Item  that  if  either  of  the  said  parties  shall  be  minded  to 
imploy  a  greater  stockc  this  way  about  sturgian  than  the  other 
he  may  so  doe  upon  his  owne  account  &  to  his  owne  advantage 
charge  &  losse. 

In  witncssc  &c     Coram  mcipc.     [26;.] 


Robert   Meriam   of   Concord  in  N.  E.   pltr.  and  William 
Borcman2  late  of  the  same  his   servant  put  the  said  Bore- 

2  Samuel  Hosier,  of  "\Vatertown,  was  him  than  lie  turned  him  over  to  "\Yil- 

choscn  constable  in  1044,  but  otherwise  Ham  Townsheml,  thntrher,  who,  I  ima- 

is  not  mentioned  by  contemporary  an-  gine,  turned  him  over  to  Job  Jndkin,  of 

thoiitics.  I  should  imagine  that  he  was  what  trade  1  kno\v  not;  and  his  last  ap- 

of  that  well-to-do  class  who  are  not  of  pearnnce  in  this  Note-book  is  in  the  not  of 

a  station  high  enough  to  get  into  the  being  turned  over  by  this  last  to  Thorn- 

records  as  officers,  nor  low  enough  to  ap-  as  Withcrly,  mariner.  Now  Witherly 

pear  therein  as  criminals,  and  are  there-  came  from  Connecticut,  and  went  back 

fore  almost  unnoticed  by  history.  there  at  times,  and  may  have  brought 

2  William  Boreman  could  not  have  Uoreman  with  him;  for  we  find  against 

been  a  satisfactory  apprentice.  Richard  Boreman'a  name  in  Savage,  "perhaps 

Gridley,  the  brickmaker,  no  sooner  had  of  Wethersfield,  1645;  was  of  Guilford, 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  103 

man  apprentice  to  Richard  Gridley  of  Boston  in  New  England 
Brickmakcr,  for  6  yeares  from  29  Sept.  next,  meat  drinke 
lodging  &  apparell  &  double  apparell  at  the  end  of  the  terme. 
in  prncia  mei  &  T.  Savage.  Dat'  19.  G.  1039.  [2s.  M.] 

THOMAS  RUCKE  of  Charlestowne  in  Neiv  England  planter  Pit. 
WILLIAM  HATCH  of  Scituate  in  Neio  England  planter  Defdt. 

To  the  Governor  &  assistants  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  New 
Plymouth  in  New  England  humbly  complayning  showeth  unto 
yor  Worshipps  Thomas  Ruckc  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England 
planter  that  whereas  this  Complt  and  one  Joseph  Moriam  of 
Concord  in  New  England  Planter  and  William  Hatch  of  Hcituate 
in  New  England  Planter  Came  joynt  undertakers  in  the  shipp 
Castle  of  London  wch  arrived  at  the  port  of  Charlestowne  in 
the  moneth  of  July  Anno  Dm  1038.  And  one  the  said  William 
Hatch  of  London  was  also  undertaker  with  them  and  under- 
tooke  by  agreement  to  manage  as  a  steward  all  their  joynt 
businesse  of  undertaking  and  concerning  every  mans  passage 
and  all  passengers  goods  that  came  in  the  said  shipp  and  to 
take  notice  and  keepe  account  how  much  every  passengers 
goods  and  how  much  the  said  severall  undertakers  ownc  goods 
were  in  tunnage  and  what  every  one  of  the  said  passengers 
and  undertakers  were  to  pay  for  their  several!  passage  & 
goods  and  to  deliver  to  every  [one]  of  the  said  undertakers 
&  passengers  their  severall  allowance  of  victualls  &  to  cause 
that  all  the  Caske  vessells  rundletts  &  provisions  layd  in  for 
store  and  left  at  the  said  shipps  arrival  in  New  England  afore 
said  should  be  equally  divided  to  the  said  undertakers  parte 
<fe  part  like,  for  wch  stewardship  the  said  William  Hatch  was 
allowed  by  the  said  ComP11  <fe  Joseph  Mcriam  the  summc  of 
SOt'and  other  profitts  to  the  value  of  20* » more  in  all  50^ 

1650."  He  may  not  be  the  same  man,  militia,  and  was  also  one  of  the  water- 
however.  As  for  Gridley,  he  was  one  of  bailiffs  of  the  town  for  somo  time.  He 
the  very  early  settlers,  and  is  frequently  is  mentioned  in  the  Colonial  Records  only 
mentioned  in  the  early  Boston  records,  in  the  orders  relating  to  the  Hutchinson 
sometimes  in  relation  to  his  trade  as  disturbance  ;  from  which  it  may  be  in- 
brickmaker,  and  sometimes  in  regard  to  ferred  that  he  was  more  popular  in  the 
his  public  duties.  He  was  captain  of  town  of  Boston  than  in  the  colony  at  large. 


164  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

whereupon  this  Complt  hoped  that  the  said  William  Hatch 
would  have  made  a  just  account  betweene  the  master  of  the 
said  ship  &  others  &  the  said  undertakers. 

But  the  said  William  Hatch  taking  advantage  of  this 
Complta  sicknessc  &  weaknesse  at  sea  did  in  the  prsence  of 
the  master  of  the  said  ship  at  Boston  in  New  England  in 
July  aforesaid  &  at  Charlestowne  aforesaid  overreckon  mis- 
reckon  account  short  &  mischarge  upon  this  Com1'11  divers 
particularc  things  hereinafter  expressed  wch  this  Complt  since 
came  to  the  knowledge  &  remembrance  of:  And  first  this 
Complt  showcth  [106]  that  the  proper  goods  of  this  Complt 
brought  in  the  said  ship  did  amount  in  tunnage  but  to  tenne 
tunnes  &  an  halfe  the  tunnage  whereof  came  to  but  thirty  one 
pounds  &  tenne  shillings  but  the  said  William  Hatch  charged 
the  said  Complt  wth  fifteen  tunns  of  goods  &  a  barrell  &  for 
the  same  the  Complt  hath  payd  for  the  tunnage  of  so  much 
forty  live  pounds  whereby  the  said  William  Hatch  overreck- 
oncd  this  Complt  141»  Item  by  the  said  ovcrreckoning  of  this 
Complt  goods  the  said  Wm.  Ifatch  charged  the  summe  of  forty 
shillings  on  the  said  Complt  for  custome  of  foure  tunnes  & 
hall'e  of  goods  more  than  belonged  to  the  Complt  to  allow  for: 
at  9s  by  tlie  tuiinc.  Item  thereby  the  said  William  Hatch 
overcharged  this  Complt  eight  shillings  payd  to  the  said 
Master  for  primage  &  average  and  eight  shillings  more  to 
lightermen  for  lighterage  of  foure  tunnes  &  halfe  of  goods 
more  than  belonged  to  this  Complt  to  allow  for.  Item  the 
said  William  Hatch  should  have  accounted  to  this  Complt  for 
three  bushells  &  halfe  of  meale  worth  twenty  and  eight 
shillings  wch  meale  was  to  have  bin  delivered  to  this  Complt 
for  him  *fe  his  family  by  sea  according  to  common  allow 
ance  but  this  Complt  having  meale  for  his  owne  use  agreed 
to  receive  his  said  allowance  in  meale  altogether  at  land 
ing  but  the  said  William  Hatch  never  accounted  for  nor 
satisfyed  this  Complt  for  the  same.  Item  the  said  William 
Hatch  hath  not  accounted  for  nor  satisfyed  this  Complfc  for  his 
partc  of  the  bread  sacks  brought  by  the  said  undertakers 
joyntly  wch  pfc  was  worth  fiifty  two  shillings  &  six  pence. 
Item  nor  for  this  Complta  parte  of  the  cookes  store  by  the 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-WOK.  165 

said  undertakers  joyntly  provided  wch  parte  was  worth  thirty 
six  shillings  and  six  penee  nor  for  this  Complt8  ]>arte  of  the 
vinegar  brought  by  the  said  undertakers  of  the  voyage  wch 
parte  was  worth  3  shillings  <fc  sixpence.  Nor  for  this  Complt8 
parte  of  the  empty  rundlcts  &  wine  casks  provided  by  the 
said  undertakers  wch  parte  Avas  worth  two  shillings  <fc  six- 
])ence,  Nor  for  this  Complts  parte  of  the  suger  brought  by  the 
said  undertakers  wch  parte  was  worth  eight  shillings  &.  six 
pence,  Nor  for  this  Compl ay nants  parte  of  the  money  for  the 
victualls  wch  the  Brother  of  the  said  William  <fc  8  or  9  oilier 
persons  the  proper  passengers  of  the  said  William  had  for 
three  weeks  together  after  the  said  ship  came  to  anchor  in 
the  said  porte  which  parte  the  said  William  Hatch  was  to 
answer  for  <fc  pay  to  this  Complt  they  being  his  the  said  Win. 
Hatch's  proper  passengers,  &  amounted  to  80s.  at  the  least. 
He  prayeth  that  the  said  William  Hatch  be  injoyned  to  sett 
downe  the  same  in  writing  upon  his  oath.  Item  the  said 
William  [107]  Hatch  mischarged  or  overcharged  this  Complt 
with  sixteene  shillings  &  fourc  pence  for  tunnagc  of  halfe 
a  tun  of  goods  of  Henry  Swan  wch  he  refuseth  ct  hath  not 
right  to  pay  so  much  because  they  were  victualls  &  not 
broadcloth.  Item  the  said  William  Hatch  mischarged  this 
Complt  with  fiftecne  shillings  and  six  pence  for  the  tunnadge 
of  Ann  Baker  her  goods  wch  the  said  Joseph  Mcriam  did 
receive.  Item  the  said  William  Hatch  accounted  short  the 
bisket  of  the  said  undertakers  wch  he  sould  at  Boston  afore 
said  whrof  the  Complt  parte  came  to  three  shillings  and  three 
pence  more  than  the  said  William  Hatch  did  account  for. 
Item  the  said  W.  II.  hath  confessed  himself  to  be  in  ar- 
reages  to  the  Complt  the  summc  of  17*'  9*  by  his  letter  dated 
14th  Sept.  1638  whereof  since  the  said  Win.  Hatch  hath  paid 
the  Complt  1QH  by  the  hands  of  Joseph  Kitchercll  and  by  UK 
Sparhawke  35s.  3<i.  and  by  John  Fishenden  17s.  in  all  121 
12s.  0(7.  so  that  there  resteth  due  the  residue  whereof  that  is 
41  16.  9  to  the  Complt  So  that  the  said  William  Hatch  is 
in  arrerages  to  this  Complaynant  the  summc  of  81.  6.  5d. 
pounds  at  the  least.  All  wh  premises  are  well  knowne  to  the 
said  William  Hatch.  And  because  the  said  Complainant 


1G6  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

cannot  so  exactly  prove  the  said  particulare  things  as  law 
requires  therefore  he  prayeth  that  the  said  William  Hatch 
may  be  enjoyned  to  answer  all  the  premises  upon  his  oath 
particularly  in  writing  and  further  to  stand  to  &  abide  such 
ordei;<fc  decree  therein  as  shall  scenic  to  yor  worships  to  stand 
with  equity  &  good  conscience.  And  this  Com  pi  ay  nan  t  shall 
as  his  duty  byndcth  him  pray  for  yor  worships  health  &  pros 
perity  and  of  the  publicko.  [6s.  &/.  Sent  to  M*  Nath.  Souther 
at  Plinunoutli  26.  6.  1639  by  John  Crabtrees  friend.] 

Thomas  Rucke  of  Charlcstowne  in  New  England  planter 
aged  about  48  yeares  sworne  saith  upon  his  oath  that  he  know- 
eth  that  William  Hatch  reckoned  with  Joseph  Meriam  in  the 
moneth  of  July  Anno  Dni  1638  being  the  14th  yeare  of  the 
raigne  of  our  Sov :  Lord  Ch  now  king  of  England  &c  that  he 
the  said  Wm.  Hatch  had  received  to  the  use  of  the  said  Joseph 
from  Robert  Meriam  his  brother  but  thirty  pounds  &  no  more. 
And  this  deponent  saith  that  he  hath  seen  a  note  of  remem 
brance  of  the  said  William  llatchs  owne  handwriting  in  a 
little  paper  bookc  of  the  said  Joseph  Meriams  wch  note  con- 
teyneth  these  words  <fc  figures  following  that  is  to  say  "  July 
13th  1638.  One  after  pt  of  the  profitts  of  the  freight  of  the 
Castle  and  of  provisions  left  in  my  hands  comes  unto  wch  I 
doe  owe  unto  Joseph  Meriam  lol  14s.  William  Hatch  " :  wch  this 
deponent  doth  very  well  know  to  be  the  hand  writing  of  the 
said  William  Hatch  because  this  deponent  hath  often  seen 
him  the  said  Hatch  write,  and  hath  many  other  writings  of 
the  said  Hatch  at  this  time  in  his  hands.  [Is.] 

Thomas  Watson l  late  of  Duxbury  pltr  against  John 
Rogers2  of  Duxbury  planter:  for  Henry  Blage  brickmaker 
turned  over  to  him  for  about  3  yeares  about  No  :  last  40s.  to  be 
pd  at  12  Fcl) :  for  certaine  brick  tools  30s.  for  a  fouling  peice 

1  Thomas  Watson  was  at  this  time  Watson  is  hardly  an  uncommon  one  in 

winding  up   his   affairs  preparatory   to  Duxbury. 

returning  to  England,  as  will  be  seen  2  John  Rogers  may  have  been  the  son 
by  the  later  references  to  him  in  the  of  Thomas  Rogers,  who  came  over  in  the 
Xot e-book.  Exactly  who  this  man  "  Mayflower."  "  Henry  Blagge,  Brain- 
was  is  uncertain,  although  the  name  tree  briekburner,"  1643  (Savage). 


LECIIFORirS   MANUSCRIPT  ROTE-BOOK.  107 

30s.  in  January  last,  and  for  5  daycs  workc  about  brickc  & 
planting  in  June  last  to  hhnsclfe  &  John  Broomeli  but 
Rogers  undertooke  to  pay  it.  [I*-] 

NEW  PLYMOUTH  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  3  Sept  1G39 

IN    THE    COURT    THERE. 

JOSEPH  MERIAM  of  Concord  in  New  ^j 

England  Pit  I   in  an  action  of  trespass 

WILLIAM  HATCH  of  Scituate  in  New   f        upon  the  case. 

England  Deft 

The  Pit  complayneth  against  the  defendt  that  whereas 
the  defendt  heretofore  that  is  to  say  in  the  moneth  of 
April!  in  the  fourteenth  yeare  of  the  raigno  of  our  soveraigne 
Lord  [108]  Charles  now  King  of  England  the  defnt  was 
indebted  unto  the  pit  the  suminc  of  thirty  &  five  pounds  wch 
lie  received  of  Robert  Mcrium  for  tlie  pits  use  and  on  his 
behalf  which  the  dcfcndt  promised  to  pay  when  he  should  be 
required  the  same  and  the  Defendt  did  afterwards  indeed  pay 
unto  the  Pit  the  surnmc  of  thirty  pounds  thereof.  And 
whereas  the  Pltiff  &  Defendt  upon  the  thirteenth  day  of  July 
in  the  fourcteenth  yeare  aforesaid  did  account  together  for 
divers  moneys' due  from  the  one  to  the  other  &  the  Defendt 
was  then  found  in  arrcarges  to  the  pit  the  sunime  of  fiftccne 
pounds  &  fourteene  shillings  wch  then  also  he  promised  to  pay 
unto  the  pit  when  he  should  be  required  the  same  and  the 
defendt  did  afterwards  indeed  pay  unto  the  pit  the  sunime  of 
tonne  pounds  thereof  Notwithstanding  the  aforesaid  defendt 
intending  to  deceive  the  pit  of  the  sunime  of  five  pounds  the 
residue  of  the  said  thirty  &  five  pounds  <fe  of  five  pounds  & 
fourteene  shillings  the  residue  of  the  said  summe  of  fiftecne 
pounds  &  fourteene  shillings  amounting  in  the  whole  unto 
tennc  pounds  &  fourteene  shillings  hath  not  yet  payd  the 
same  to  the  said  pit  although  he  hath  bin  required  the  same 
upon  the  14th  day  of  July  aforesaid  but  refused  and  still 
doth  refuse  to  pay  the  said  tenno  pounds  <fe  fourctcene  shil 
lings  to  the  pit.  whereby  the  pit  hath  lost  divers  moneys  & 
profitts  &  commodities  wcb  by  trading  with  the  said  money  he 


lG8  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

might  have  gotten  to  his  dammage  eleven  pounds  &  tene 
shillings  thereupon  he  brings  this  suit.  [Sent  to  Plym  :  to 
Mr.  Nath.  Souther  prt  devant.] 

IN  THE  CORT  AT  BOSTON  3.  (7.)  1639. 

TIMOTHY  HATHERLEY  pit     )  .         7       .,  ^ 

x,  .     £  _  .  \  in  a  plea  of  trespass  upon  the  case. 

JOSEPH  YOUNG  mariner  deft  J 

The  plaintiffc  complayncth  that  whereas  the  Dcfendt.  upon 
the  last  day  of  October  last  past  was  master  of  the  ship 
called  the  Mary  &  Anne  &  undertooke  therein  to  transporte 
passengers  &  goods  from  Nc\v  England  to  the  porte  of 
London  and  by  the  law  the  Dcfendt  was  to  take  care  that  all 
goods  delivered  into  the  said  ship  should  be  safely  delivered 
forth  of  the  same  to  all  such  persons  as  the  same  goods 
should  apperteyne  or  to  whome  the  said  goods  should  be  con 
signed  &  appointed  to  be  delivered  by  the  owners  thereof. 
And  the  Pit  indeed  saith  that  he  being  possessed  of  one  par- 
cell  of  beaver  skins  of  the  value  of  15*  of  lawftill  money  of 
England  at  Boston  aforesaid  upon  the  first  day  of  November 
last  past  he  caused  the  said  beaver  skins  to  be  then  &  there 
delivered  aboard  the  said  ship  into  the  Charge  &  custody  of 
the  said  deft  the  said  ship  then  riding  at  anchor  in  the  porte 
of  Boston  aforesaid  to  be  transported  to  the  said  porte  of 
London  &  there  to  be  delivered  forth  of  the  said  ship  unto 
Mr.  Hooke  by  him  to  be  disposed  <fc  sold  to  the  pltfs  use  & 
benefitt  &  was  to  make  return  thereof  to  the  said  plaintiffe 
in  other  commodities  according  to  his  letters  of  advice  scut 
unto  the  said  Hookc  notwithstanding  the  Defendt  afterwards 
passing  over  to  the  said  porte  of  London  in  the  said  shippe 
did  not  deliver  the  said  beaver  skinncs  unto  the  said  Hooke 
although  the  Defent  was  required  the  same  in  the  porte  of 
London  aforesaid  by  the  said  Hooke  but  converted  them  to 
his  the  said  Defendt8  owne  use  whereby  the  pit  lost  divers 
moneys  <fe  profitts  &  commodities  wch  by  trading  wth  the  said 
other  commodities  [109]  lie  might  have  gotten  to  his  dam- 
mage  20*  and  thereupon  he  brings  his  suit.  [2s.  6d.  Is.  Cti] 


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IN  THE  COURT  AT  BOSTON  3.  (7.)  1G39. 

THOMAS  WATSON,  pit  j  -n  a    ha  gf  g  (he 

JOHN  ROGERS,  deft      } 

The  pit  complayncth  against  the  defendt  for  that  whereas 
the  defendt  in  the  moncth  of  February  last  past  was  indebted 
unto  the  pit  in  the  summo  of  40s.  for  the  service  of  one  Henry 
Blagc  whome  the  pit  before  that  time  did  assignc  &  put  over 
to  the  defend1  in  consideration  thereof  he  did  assume  <fc  promise 
to  pay  the  same  to  the  pit  when  he  should  be  thereto  required. 
And  whereas  also  the  defend1  in  the  moncth  of  February 
aforesaid  was  indebted  unto  the  pit  the  summe  of  thirty  shil 
lings  for  ccrtaine  tools  that  is  to  say  two  shovells  3  spades 
two  pickaxes  iron  vysc  smalc  lyncs  a  furgin  of  iron  &  curtaino 
rjngs  before  that  time  by  the  said  defend6  bought  &  had  of  the 
pit  the  said  defend1  in  consideration  thereof  did  assume  £ 
promise  to  pay  the  said  thirty  shillings  unto  the  pit  when  he 
should  be  required  the  same  and  whereas  also  in  the  moneth 
of  May  last  the  defend6  was  indebted  to  the  pit  in  the  summe 
of  thirty  shillings  for  one  fouling  pcece  before  that  time  by 
the  defend1  bought  £  had  of  the  pit.  the  defend6  in  consider 
ation  thereof  did  then  assume  and  promise  to  pay  the  said 
thirty  shillings  unto  the  pit  when  he  should  be  thereunto 
required  And  whereas  the  Defend*  in  the  moncth  of  June 
last  past  was  indebted  unto  the  pit  the  summe  of  five  shillings 
for  five  clayes  worke  done  by  the  pit  in  the  service  of  the 
defend6  and  one  John  Groome  the  defend*3  partner  —  the 
defend6  in  consideration  thereof  did  then  assume  <fc  promise 
to  pay  the  said  five  shillings  to  the  pit  when  he  should  be 
required  the  same.  Wch  said  sevcrall  summcs  of  money  doe 
amount  unto  the  summe  of  five  pounds  <fc  five  shillings 
whereof  since  the  defend6  hath  payd  the  pit  only  the  summe 
of  thirty  shillings  thereof  Notwithstanding  the  defend1  little 
regarding  his  severall  promises  &  assumptions  aforesaid  but 
intending  to  deceive  the  pit  of  seaventy  five  shillings  the 
residue  of  the  said  five  pounds  &  fifteen  shillings  hath  not 
payd  the  same  unto  the  pit  according  to  his  the  defend'8  said 


170  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

severall  promises  &  assumptions  altliough  he  was  by  the 
Pit  required  the  same  at  Mount  Wollaston  upon  the  nync- 
teenth  day  of  August  last  past  but  did  refuse  ct  still  doth 
refuse  to  pay  the  said  seventy  five  shillings  to  the  pit  to  his 
damage  eighty  shillings  &  thereupon  he  brings  his  suit. 
[3s.  affid  Jo  :  Groome  Is.] 

To  the  right  wor11  the  Governor  council  &  Assistants  of 
the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Massachusetts  bay  in  New  England. 

The  humble  petition  of  James  Brocke  l  mariner  sheweth 
that  whereas  the  Governor  &  Company  of  the  Massachusetts 
bay  aforesaid  were  heretofore  that  is  to  say  in  the  moncth  of 
July  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1636  indebted  to  yor  petitioner 
the  summe  of  thirty  pounds  for  butter  cheese  [110]  and 
other  provisions  had  by  them  of  yor  petitioner  for  their  use  & 
service  in  the  voyage  to  Block  Island  towards  the  warres 
against  the  Pequods  wch  thirty  pounds  should  have  bin  then 
presently  payd  to  yor  petitioner  in  the  said  moncth  of  July 
notwithstanding  the  same  was  not  payd  him  till  the  nyne- 
teenth  day  of  the  sixth  moneth  last  past  and  whereas  by 
deteiyning  the  said  thirty  pounds  the  said  three  yeares  the 
petitioner  lost  thirty  pounds  more  wch  he  could  in  that  time 
reasonably  have  gotten  by  the  same  in  trading  to  &  from 
England  hither  according  to  the  rate  of  30*  in  the  C  as  usu 
ally  merchants  make  of  their  commodities  as  well  heere  as 
in  other  countryes  £  the  rather  in  this  country  because  the 
adventure  &  danger  is  greater  &  the  passage  long  betweene 
this  «fc  England.  These  premises  considered  yor  petitioner 
praycth  yr  worpps  to  order  the  worppful  Gov  of  the  Company 
to  pay  him  for  the  said  demand  301  more  or  if  your  worships 
so  think  good  you  may  put  it  to  the  consideration  &  verdict 
of  a  Jury  whether  the  same  be  not  reasonable  to  be  payd  & 
allowed  to  the  petitioner  &  he  shall  be  ready  to  stand  to  their 
verdict  &  yor  order  thereupon  &  shall  according  to  his  duty 
pray  for  yo  worpps  health  <fe  prosperity  &  the  publiquc.  2  —  6 

1  I  am  unable  to  find  any  mention,     dlesex,  would  seem  to  show  that  he  spent 
except  in  Lechford,  of  this  James  Brocke.     no  length  of  time  in  the  country. 
Being  called  of  Ratcliffe,  County  of  Mid- 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  171 

To  the  right  wor11  the  Governor  Councill  and  Assistants  of 
the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Massachusetts  bay  in  New  England 

Humbly  complayning  shews  unto  yor  worpps  William  Cole 
late  of  Chew  magna  in  the  county  of  Somerset  gent  &  Eliza 
beth  his  wife  Daughter  &  executrix  of  the  last  will  «fc  tes 
tament  of  Francis  Doughty  1  late  of  the  city  of  Bristoll 
merchant  deceased  that  whereas  the  said  Francis  Doughty 
in  his  life  time  stood  master  of  <fc  -had  right  unto  a  ccrtaine 
lease  of  a  forme  called  Hamstcd  farme  in  the  county  of  Glou 
cester  to  enioy  to  him  and  his  assigns  during  the  lives  of 
divers  of  his  children  wch  farme  was  worth  20001  at  the  least 
and  was  possessed  of  some  small  personal  estate  to  the  value 
of  forty  pounds  or  thereabouts  and  whereas  Francis  Doughty 
Clorke  son  of  the  said  Francis  Doughty  Deceased  being  in  his 
said  fathers  displeasure  came  to  this  complt  Elizabeth  when 
she  was  sole  and  intreated  her  to  spciike  unto  her  snid  father 
for  the  said  Francis  the  sonne  iv  to  pursuadc  wtb  her  said 
father  that  he  would  bestowe  and  settle  the  said  lease  of  the 
said  farme  on  the  said  Francis  the  sonne  in  case  that  Jacob 
Doughty  brother  of  the  said  Elizabeth  were  dead  or  should 
dve  so  that  the  said  Francis  the  sonne  miirht  enioy  the  same 

*  J      J 

after  the  debts  &  legacyes  should  be  payd  <v  his  will  per 
formed  and  then  promised  her  that  if  she  would  so  speak  for 
him  tv<  that  she  could  prevayle  with  her  said  father  that  he 
would  so  bestowe  &  settle  the  said  lease  <fc  farme  upon  him 
the  said  Francis  the  sonne  as  aforesaid  that  he  would  give  her 
a  better  portion  than  her  father  would  give  unto  her  and  the 
said  Compl1  saith  that  she  the  said  Elizabeth  did  spcakc  unto 
her  said  father  for  the  said  Francis  the  sonne  accordingly  and 


1  Of   Francis    Doughty   the.    elder    I  volume  of  J/iw.  Col.  &c.,  pp.  74,  191, 

know   nothing   more    than   is   here   set  203,  257,  272;  :ilso  in  the  third  and  fourth 

down.     lie  never  came  to  America.    His  volumes  of  the  same,  if  the  investigator's 

son  Francis,  however,  was  a  minister  at  patience  should  by  any  chance  hold  out. 

Taunton  for  some  years,  after  which  he  Mrs.  Colo  did  not  get  what  she.  wanted, 

removed  to  Long  Island.      Of  Cole,  who  finally  fell  sick,  and  was  cared  for  at  the 

married  Elizabeth  Doughty,  nothing  is  expense  of  the  Colony  ;  after  which  her 

known,  save  that  he  died  a  year  or  two  petitions  ceased.    The  Humphrey  Hooke 

after  this  date.     The  course  of  events  in  may  be  the  same  man  as  the.  one  who  had 

this  case  may  be  followed  in  the  second  dealings  with  Joseph  Younge,  mariner. 


172  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

her  said  father  did  thereupon  bestowe  &  settle  upon  the  said 
Francis  the  sonnc  the  said  lease  of  the  said  farme  to  be  his 
after  the  debts  &  legacyes  of  the  said  Francis  Doughty  De 
ceased  should  be  payd  and  his  will  performed  and  to  that  end 
<fc  purpose  the  said  Francis  Doughty  Deceased  did  in  his  life 
time  by  Indenture  make  a  demise  of  the  said  farm  unto 
Humfrey  Hooke  merchant  &  others  for  the  termc  of  tenne 
yearcs  [111]  [part  here  is  in  cipher]  for  the  performance  of 
his  will  namely  for  the  payment  of  his  debts  & '  raysing  of 
porcons  for  the  children  of  the  said  Francis  and  afterwards 
by  the  same  Indenture  or  some  other  conveyance  the  said 
farm  &  lease  in  reversion  after  the  said  tenne  yeares  was 
settled  &  bestowed  upon  the  said  Francis  sonne  by  his  said 
father  through  the  mediation  of  the  said  Elizabeth.  And  the 
said  Complts  say  also  that  the  said  Francis  Doughty  Deceased 
did  by  his  last  will  &  testament  and  by  the  said  Indenture 
give  unto  the  said  Elizabeth  the  summe  of  IGOl  in  money  & 
goods  for  her  portion  &  made  her  his  sole  executrix  of  his 
said  will,  the  said  Jacob  Doughty  being  dead  at  the  time  of 
making  the  said  Indenture  or  (tying  shortly  after,  so  that  he 
is  lyable  to  pay  unto  the  Complts  in  regard  of  the  premises  the 
summe  of  IGOl  but  the  said  Francis  Doughty  the  sonne  having 
since  gotten  possession  of  the  said  farme  &  lease  sold  the  same 
for  above  10001  being  altogether  careless  &  little  weighing 
his  promise  aforesaid  did  not  give  the  said  Compl1  Eliza 
beth  when  she  was  sole  nor  any  time  since  the  Compl*  mar 
riage,  to  them  both  or  cither  of  them  hath  not  given  a  better 
portion  than  the  said  Francis  Doughty  Deceased,  did  give  unto 
her  the  said  Elizabeth  although  ho  hath  often  bin  put  in  mind 
&  required  the  same  by  the  Coinp119,  but  hath  refused  &  still 
doth  refuse  to  performc  his  sayd  promise.  And  whereas  also 
by  the  said  Elizabeth  her  Executrixship  aforesaid  slice  had 
right  to  the  surplusage  of  the  money  that  should  have  bin 
maydc  out  of  the  said  tenne  of  tenne  yeares  in  the  said  farme 
after  the  said  debts  &  legaeyes  payd  wch  would  have  bin  at 
least  two  hundred  pounds  [cipher]  so  endeavoring  to  defcate 
the  Complt9  of  the  said  surplusage  which  seeing  that  it  would 
have  bin  two  hundred  pounds  at  the  least  it  was  &  would 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  173 

have  bin  &  still  is  in  right  it  equity  due  to  the  said  Complts 
by  vcrtuc  of  the  said  Exccutrixship.  And  whereas  also  by 
the  said  Indenture  made  to  the  said  Humfrey  Hooke  &  others 
or  at  least  by  equity  thereof  all  the  debts  of  the  said  Francis 
Doughty  Deceased  &  all  charges  going  forth  of  the  said  farme 
were  to  be  payd  forth  of  the  profitts  of  the  said  farme  or  out 
of  the  said  farme  itself  [cipher]  notwithstanding  the  said 
Compl*  Elizabeth  out  of  her  the  said  Elizabeths  smale  portion 
aforesaid  was  compelled  to  pay  unto  Robert  Nelson  gent  the 
summo  of  sixteenc  pounds  for  the  debt  of  the  said  Francis 
Doughty  Deceased  <fc  unto  Marmaduke  Chapman  Clerke  tenne 
pounds  for  tythes  of  the  said  farme  wch  being  in  all  twenty  six 
pounds  the  said  Francis  Doughty  the  sonne  ought  in  equity  in 
regard  of  the  promises  to  repay  unto  the  said  Complts.  [Ci 
pher.']  And  whereas  also  the  said  Compl*  William  Cole  at  the 
speciall  instance  &  request  of  the  said  Francis  Doughty  and 
for  the  debt  of  the  said  Francis  became  bounden  with  him  in 
and  by  one  [112]  obligation  bearing  date  the  eleventh  day  of 
December  in  the  tenth  yeare  of  his  Mat8  raigne  that  now  is 
unto  one  Edmund  Bclsine  whitest  he  lived  of  the  city  of  l>ris- 
toll  sopemaker  in  the  summc  of  three  score  pounds  for  the 
payment  of  thirty  pounds  on  the  twenty  fifth  day  of  March 
wcb  shall  be  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  six  hun 
dred  &  forty  so  that  the  said  William  Cole  is  lyablc  to  pay 
the  said  thirty  pounds  to  the  Executrix  of  the  said  Edmund  & 
he  knowcth  not  how  much  costs  &  dammagcs  besides  if  the 
said  Francis  doe  not  pay  the  same  and  forasmuch  as  the  said 
Francis  hath  a  purpose  to  remove  his  dwelling  forth  of  the 
Jurisdiction  of  this  Court  where  this  Compl*  cannot  tell  he 
humbly  prayeth  that  the  said  Francis  may  be  enjoyncd  hcere 
forthwith  to  save  the  pit.  from  the  said  bond.  And  because 
the  said  Compl19  have  not  such  exact  proof e  of  the  premises 
as  the  Law  requires  therefore  they  humbly  pray  that  the  said 
Francis  may  be  enjoyned  to  answer  the  premises  and  every 
parte  thereof  in  writing  upon  his  oath.  And  further  to  stand 
to  &  abide  such  order  &  decree  therein  as  to  yor  Worships 
shall  seeme  to  stand  in  equity  &  yor  Supliants  shall  as  their 
duty  by nds  them  ever  pray  for  yor  worpps  health  &  prosperity 


174  LECHFORD'S  MANUSC1HPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

&  the  publique.  [6s.  $d.  Copia  3s.  4d.  A  coppy  of  the 
words  of  the  deed,  4d.  Writing  the  action,  Is.  6d.  cop :  3s. 
4.  11.  10 J.  ffee  G  ver  7s.  —  rest  10.] 

John  Winthrop  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the 
Mattachusetts  bay  in  New  England  To  the  wor11  my  loving 
Friend  ct  neighbor  [William  Bradford]  Esqr  Governor  of  the 
Jurisdiccon  of  New  Plymouth  salutacons  in  the  Lord  <fcc.  For 
asmuch  as  blessed  be  the  Lord  God  there  hath  bin  &  is  and  it 
much  conccrncth  that  ever  there  should  be  mutuall  amity  and 
correspondance  bctweene  our  severall  Plantations  and  to  the 
end  Justice  may  be  cquall  administred  to  the  Kings  subjects 
wth  us  it  will  often  come  to  passe  that  we  shall  have  occasion 
to  write  one  unto  the  other  touching  justice  to  be  done  and 
partyes  to  be  righted  in  their  causes  as  hath  bin  used  hereto 
fore  according  to  wch  good  custome  I  shalle  request  you  that 
you  cause  full  &  speedy  iustice  to  be  done  betweene  Joseph 
Mcriam  tt  William  Hatch  in  the  cause  herewith  sent  unto  you 
according  as  you  shall  find  the  merits  of  the  said  cause  to 
require  And  the  like  favour  it  iustice  you  for  any  of  yors  shall 
upon  occasion  offred  finde  wth  us  And  I  likewise  send  you  the 
depositions  of  Robert  Mcriam  &  Thomas  Rucke  taken  before 
my  self  c  concerning  the  said  cause.  Thus  I  wish  you  right 
heartily  well  to  fare  in  the  Lord  &  rest 

Yor  loving  freind 

Jo  W  Govr. 
BOSTON  22.  (G.)  1G39. 

[  This  letter  was  afterward  crossed  out."] 

Edward  Wood1  for  1-U  5s.  in  hand  assignes  Thomas 
Cooper  sonnc  of  Henry  Cooper  of  little  Bowden  in  Northton 

1  Kd\viU'il  Wood  here  mentioned  may  Buttels,  and  the  Colonial  Records  Bow- 

havc  been  the  baker  of  C'harlestown  of  tie)  was    allowed    an   inhabitant   Nov. 

the  same   name,  with  whom    Lech  ford  25,    1639,    and   had    a    house,    though 

had  dealings,  as  we  shall  see  later.   Leon-  where   it   was    I    cannot   say   [but   see 

ard    Buttolph   (or  Buttal,  Buttol,  But-  Su/.  Deeds,  i.  142].     He  had  later  two 

tol[»h,  Buttolfe,  Buttle,  for  in  all  these  limekilns  on  Captain  Gibbons's  ground 

ways  docs  his  name  appear  iu  the  Boston  at  Foxhill.     What  connection    he   had 

Town  Records,  while  Savage  calls  him  with  Thomas  of  the  same  name  is  not 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


175 


laborer  Apprentice  to  Leonard  Buttolpe  bricklayer  of  Boston 
apparel  double  at  the  end  &  5*  for  6  yeares  from  midsummer 
last  past,  dated  29.  6.  1639.  [2*.  Crf.] 

L.  Buttolpe  bound  by  bill  to  E.  Wood :  for  71  to  be  pd.  10. 
10.  11.39.  dat'  ut  supra.  [IV.] 

[113]  Samuel  Cole1  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  g.  placeth  John 
Cole  his  grandchildc  Apprentice  to  John  Mylam  of  Boston 
aforesaid  Coop  for  7  veares  from  1?  1!  1G38  dat  5.  7.  1G39. 
[2s.  G<7.] 

Thomas  Ilamond  2  of  Hingham  pit  Edmund  Ilubbard  [b'ank] 
clef,  for  trespasse  in  his  Indian  conic  since  planting  time  till 
now  to  the  value  of  f)0.s.  in  his  corne  ground  at  Jlingham. 
[Is.  Robt.  Jones  John  Tucker  <fc  Isack  Martin.] 

Against  David  Phippcn  for  trespasse  wth  his  hogs  in  the 
same  corne  to  the  value  of  40s.  [H.  I.  I.  M.  Is.] 


clear.  Thomas  Cooper  I  suppose  to 
have  been  the  man  who  in  1641  re 
moved  to  Springfield,  and  was  killed  by 
the  Indians  in  1675. 

1  Savage    says    that   John   Cole,    the 
son   of  Samuel,   was   born   in  England. 
If  Samuel  had  another  son  besides  the 
John   noted   in   Savage,    he    must  have 
died   early,    as    would    seem    from    the 
grandfather  putting  the  boy  to  prentice 
rather  than  the  father.     John  Mylam, 
the  cooper,   had  a  house  on  the  north 
shore  of  Town  Cove,   and  a  wharf  in 
front  of  it.     Some  difference  of  opinion 
exited   in    regard    to    the   spelling    of 
his   name,    as  well   as  to  that   of  Mr. 
Buttolph. 

2  Thomas  Hammond  came  to  Hing 
ham,    was    freeman    1637,    and    after 
wards     removed     to    AVatortown,    and 
again    to    Cambridge.     Edmund    Ilub 
bard  we   have   already  noted.     Of  the 
rest,  David  Phippen  was  freeman  March 
3,   1635  ;  is  mentioned  in  the  Colonial 
Records  as  defendant  in  a  case   which 


was  not  tried.  He  removed  to  Boston, 
and  died,  meantime,  before  1650.  Henry 
Smith  came  over  from  England,  and 
was  made  freeman  this  very  year.  He 
was  an  inhabitant  of  Hingham  until 
1641,  when  he  removed  to  Rehoboth. 
I  think  he  may  have  been  some  relative 
to  the  Henry  Smith  who  was  named 
with  Ludlow  and  others  as  having  leave 
to  go  to  Connecticut.  Thomas  Under 
wood  while  of  Hingham  was  represent 
ative  twice,  and  once  selectman.  He 
afterwards  removed  to  Watertown.  John 
Folsom  came  over  in  the  same  ship  with 
Henry  Smith  —  the  "  Diligent,"  of  Ips 
wich  —  from  Old  Hingham,  in  Norfolk. 
He  died  at  Exeter,  where  he  had  re 
moved  Dec.  27, 1681.  William  Spragne 
came  to  Hingham  in  1635,  and  lived 
there  most  of  his  life,  though  he  moved 
to  Marshfield  and  back  again  probably 
before  this  time.  Joseph  Parke  I  have 
not  been  able  to  find.  Parke  was  by  no 
means  an  uncommon  name,  but  I  do  not 
discover  any  Joseph. 


176  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

And  against  David  Phippcn  Joseph  Parke  Henry  Smith 
Thomas  Underwood  John  Folsom  &  William  Sprague  for 
their  fences  being  downe  &  unrepaired  whereby  all  the  tres 
passes  have  ben  don  upon  the  pit.  to  his  dam :  3*  [iidem  Is.] 

John  Long1  hath  a  peticion  to  the  Governor  <fcc  for  Mf 
Whetcombs  2  land. 

Showeth  that  wheras  Simon  Whetcombe  Deceased  had 
right  to  certaine  ground  in  New  England  that  one  Isaacke 
Richmond  did  inclose  for  the  use  of  the  said  Simon  and  the 
frame  &  timber  he  provided  for  the  building  of  an  house  there 
and  whereas  Mary  Whetcombe  the  late  wife  &  executrix  of 
the  last  will  &  testament  of  the  said  Simon  did  give  all  the 
right  she  had  in  the  premises  and  intended  all  right  of  the 
said  Simons  adventure  unto  one  Thomas  Brooke  who  made 
his  will  nuncupative  at  sea  &  gave  yor  petitioner  all  right  in 
the  said  lands  &  premises  &  dyed.  Yor  pctioner  humbly 
prayeth  that  for  as  much  as  the  said  Simon  Whetcombe  had 
some  adventure  in  this  Plantation  that  the  said  lands  may 
be  conferred  on  yor  petitioner  to  whome  the  right  in  equity  is 
ducly  come  if  they  may  be  found  if  not  that  then  some  other 
lands  may  be  given  this  petitioner  in  lien  thereof  &  of  the  said 
adventure  according  to  equity  and  yor  petitioner  shall  as  his 
duty  is  ever  pray  for  yor  worpps  health  &  prosperity  &  the 
publique.  [!#•] 

1  I  cannot  think  that  this  is  the  man  our  knowledge  of  him  is  confined  to  the 
who  came  with  his  father,  Robert,  in  the  few    facts   which   we   gather   from    the 
"  Defence"  from  London  in  1635;  for  if  Records"  (Archccologia  Americana,  vol. 
so  he  would  be  but  ten  years  old.     It  is  iii.  p.  li).     I  have  nowhere  found  men- 
hardly  pertinent  to  the  case  to  know  that  tion  of  the  land  granted  to  him.     In  a 
John  Long  was,  a  year  or  two  after  this,  letter  from  the  Company  in  England  to 
fined  for  distemper  in  drinking  (J/«ss.  Endicott  (J/ass.  Col.Rcc.,  i.  404)  it  says 
Col.  llec.,  i.  316).   The  name  occurs  later  that  Mr.  Whitcomb  recommends  to  the 
in  the  Note-book  in  another  matter.  Company  one  Isack  Rickman  to  receive 

2  Simon  Whitcomb  is,  however,  bet-  his  diet  and  house-room  at  the  charge 
ter  known.     He  was  "  an  active  member  of  the  Company.     I  suppose  this  is  the 
of  the  Company  at   home,"   says  Mr.  man   here   called    Isaac    Richmond,    of 
Haven,  "  but  did  riot  come  to  New  Eng-  whom  otherwise  I  find  no  mention  in 
land.  .   .   .   We  may  conclude  that   ho  Savage  or  elsewhere.      Thomas  Brooke 
was  a  man  of  some  substance,  a  respect-  must  have  died  at  sea,  since  his  will 
able  citizen,  and  a  zealous  Puritan  ;  but  was  considered  valid. 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  17* 

Elizabeth  Pole  l  Spinster  agt  John  Treworthy  gent  3.  (7.) 
1639.  [  U] 

A  Certificate  by  the  Governor  that  M*  John  Endicott  is 
alive.  3.  (7.)  1030. 

John  \Vinthrop  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  Matta- 
chusctts  bay  in  Nc\v  England  to  all  manner  of  persons  whom 
it  may  concerne  greeting  Kno\ve  yee  that  John  Budicott  Estf 
one  of  the  Councill  for  the  Jurisdiccon  aforesaid  is  Blessed  be 
God  at  this  present  in  full  life  &  health  wch  at  the  request  of 
the  said  John  Endicott  1  have  thought  good  to  Certifye.  In 
testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  subscribed  my  name  & 
caused  the  Common  seale  of  our  Colony  to  be  affixed  the  third 
day  of  September  in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our 
Sovcraignc  Lord  Charles  now  King  of  England  A:c.  Anno<]r 
Dfii  1039.  [2s.] 

[114]  Lydia  Dastiii2  wife  of  Josiah  Dastin  of  Charles- 
towne  in  Xew  England  aged  about  20  yeares  sworne  saitli 
upon  lier  oath  that  about  a  moneth  since  this  deponent  being 
in  the  house  of  Mf  Cradocke  at  Mistickc  in  a  certaine  roome 
there  at  meate  one  Robert  Panare  offered  violence  to  her  A; 
would  have  kissed  her  &  offered  to  put  his  hands  under  her 
coats  A'  sayd  he  came  of  a  woman  A:  knew  what  belonged  to 
a  woman  A:  because  her  husband  was  not  able  to  give  her  a 
great  belly  he  would  help  him  or  such  most  shamefull  words 
A;  he  caused  her  to  cut  her  hand  <fc  her  apron  in  striving  with 
him.  And  this  depont  saith  that  she  refusing  to  commit  this 

1  Elizabeth   Poole  is  well  known  as  history  of  Josiah  Dastin,  or  of  his  wife 
being  the  founder  of  the  town  of  Taun-  Lydia,  and  still  less  about  the  incident 
ton,  which  plantation  she  began  in  1637,  here  referred  to.     The  name  is  usually 
as  one  finds  in  Winthrop  (i.  252),  who  spelt   Dustiu.     In    regard    to  Matthew 
calls  her  "an   ancient   maid,   one,  Mrs.  Cradock's  house    near  the  Mystic,  the 
Poole."     She  was   at   that   time   forty-  ground  was  granted  to  him  by  the  Cen- 
eight   years   old,  having   been   born   in  eral  Court  some  years  before  this  (Jfnss. 
158!>.    Her  brother  William  accompanied  Col.  7?™.,  i.  141),  although  Cradoek  was 
her  to  Taunton,   and  lived    some  time  not  at  that  time,   nor  at  any  time,  in 
there,   but  returned  afterwards  to  Dor-  New  England.     See  Brooks's  Mcdford, 
Chester,  whence  he  had  come.  p.  40,  and  Drake's  Landmarks  of  Mid- 

2  Little  is  known  from  contemporary  dieses,  p.  137. 

12 


178  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

wickednessc  he  used  some  threatening  words  as  well  I  will 
be  meet  with  you  but  if  you  will  not  do  it  for  love  you  will 
not  for  anything  else,  ami  this  offence  being  done  late  upon  a 
last  day  of  the  weekc  a  little  before  night  this  deponent  went 
presently  purposing  to  make  it  knowne  to  goodman  Knight 
but  he  was  at  top  of  an  house  &  could  not  conveniently  come 
downe  at  that  time  and  her  husband  coining  home  late  that 
night  she  made  it  knowne  to  him  the  next  evening  after. 


IN  THE  CORT  AT  BOSTON  3.  (7.)  1639. 

TIMOTHY  HATHERLY,  pit.       )  .         7       /•  7  T  ,  i 

[  in  a  plea  of  debt.1 
ISAACKE  ALLERTON,  defendt  ) 

(The  Defendt  was  charged  to  answer  the  [a  few  ivords  in 
cipher])  The  pit  saith  that  the  defendt  upon  tlie  first  day  of 
August  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  One  thousand  six  hundred 
thirty  and  six  became  hounden  unto  the  pit  in  one  writing 
obligatory  in  these  words  <tc  Notwithstanding  the  said  defend' 
hath  not  payd  the  pit  the  summe  of  1501  according  to  the 
tenor  of  the  sayde  writing  obligatory  but  refused  and  still 
refuseth  to  pay  the  same  to  the  plts  dammage  1501  &  thereupon 
he  brings  his  suit.  [attachmt  2s.  6d.] 

Idem  rcspd  cundem. 

The  Pit  complayneth  against  the  defend1  for  that  whereas 
the  pit  heretofore  that  is  to  say  in  the  moncth  of  [Wan£]  in  the 
yeare  of  our  Lord  [W«H&]  at  the  speciall  instance  &  request 
of  the  Defend1  became  bound  with  &  for  the  Defend1  unto  one 
[Muni-]  Willis  in  one  bond  of  [W«/ifc]  Conditioned  for  the  pay 
ment  of  the  summe  of  nynety  five  pounds  <fc  fifteen  si  lil  lings 
at  a  day  long  since  past.  And  whereas  the  said  defend1  did  at 
the  sealing  of  the  said  bond  in  consideration  thereof  promise  & 
assume  that  he  the  Defend1  would  pay  the  said  951  &  15s.  unto 

1  This   case   between    TIatherly   and  Company  and  their  English   eorrespon- 

Allerton  was  doubtless  something  grow-  dents,    on   which    some    light    (though 

ing  out  of  their  previous  transactions  but  flickering)  is  thrown  by  Bradford's 

with  each  other  and  with  the  Plymouth  History. 


LECHFORD'S   MAXUSCRIP7*  FOTE-HOOK.  179 

tlic  said  [&/«/?/•]  Willis  according  to  the  said  l)ond  <fe  condicon 
thereof  and  that  lie  would  from  time  to  time  save  &  kccpe 
harmlcssc  the  pit  of  &  from  the  said  bond  cfe  all  accons  & 
repay  unto  the  pit  costs  &  damages  that  should  come  or  be 
brought  upon  or  recovered  against  the  Pit  upon  the  said  bond 
or  concerning  the  said  debt  when  lie  should  [115]  be  there 
unto  required.  And  the  Pit  saith  that  indeed  the  defend6  did 
not  pay  the  said  951  «fc  15.9.  imto  the  said  [M/«&]  Willis  accord 
ing  to  the  said  bond  &  condition  thereof  whereby  the  said 
[/;/rn</v-]  Wrillis  hath  by  suit  of  law  recovered  against  &  received 
of  the  pit  the  summe  of  127}  for  dammages  &  costs  of  suit 
upon  the  said  bond  &  for  the  said  debt  and  the  pit  hath  bin 
put  .to  divers  other  troubles  costs  £  dammages  thereabouts. 
Notwithstanding  the  defend1  hath  not  saved  the  pit  hannles.se 
of  <fc  from  the  said  bond  nor  from  [cipher]  the  said  damages 
&  costs  of  127*  nor  from  the  said  other  troubles  costs  & 
dammages  although  he  hath  bin  thereunto  required  but  re 
fused  £  still  doth  refuse  to  doe  the  same  to  the  pits  damage 
140*  <fc  thereupon  he  brings  his  suit.  [Is.  8d.~] 

John  Treworthy  gent  agt  Eliz.  Pole  in  a  plea  of  trespas 
upon  the  case.  M!i  Deputy  undertakes  she  shall  answer  this 
accon  at  the  Cort  in  March  next.  M'  Peters  pd  101  of  money 
in  his  hands  recovered  in  another  accon  by  the  defend1  agl  the 
pit  is  stayed  by  order  of  Court  till  the  Court  in  March  next 
when  the  Pit  is  to  proccede  in  his  accon  against  the  said 
defend1.  [1*.] 

James  Brocke  at  the  suit  of  Joseph  Bachellcr  defendt  in  a 
plea  of  trespas  upon  the  case.  The  Defendt  by  T.  L.  his  At 
torney  saith  that  by  the  law  of  the  land  he  ought  not  to  be 
compelled  nor  is  he  any  waves  bound  to  answcrc  unto  the  pit 
in  this  Court  because  the  pit  hath  not  put  in  his  dcclaracon  in 
writing  to  remaine  upon  Record  And  thereupon  this  Defendt 
doth  demurre  in  law  &  rcstes  upon  the  Judgment  of  the  said 
Court  whether  he  ought  to  be  compelled  to  answcrc  the  Pit 
otherwise  in  the  said  action. 

[This  entry  crossed  out.'] 


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LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Elisha  Bridges  rcleaseth  Mary  Fi  slier  widdow  for  301  legacy 
given  by  Thomas  Fisher  l  the  testator  to  John  Blackston  and 
Sara  iiis  wife  daughter  of  the  said  Thomas  &  payd  by  the  said 
Mary  executrix  of  the  said  Thomas  Fisher  unto  the  said 
Elisha  Attorney  for  the  said  John  Blackston  <fc  Sara  his  wife 
dated  4.  7.  1G39.  before  Mr  [Wa«£]  Hawkins  Ed  :  Michelson 
&  myselfe.  [Is.  Gd.~\ 

A  Coppy  of  the  said  Bridges  letter  of  Attorney.     [Is.  Gti] 


A  fine  ct  two  deeds  acknowledged  &  sealed  by  [Wawfc]  John 
son  2  &  Jane  his  wife  to  [Wawfc]  Rosseter  gent  of  lands  in  the 
County  of  Somst  before  Mf  Jo:  Winthrop  Govr  &  Mr  John 
Humfrey  &  myselfe  4.  7.  1639.  [2.  6.] 


1  It  is  difficult  to  "be  sure  of  identi 
fying  this  Thomas  Fisher  and  Mary 
his  widow;  but  I  think  him  the  man 
of  that  name  who  came  from  Win  ton 
in  England  to  Cambridge  in  1034,  and 
moved,  says  Savage,  from  there  to  Ded- 
hain  in  1037.  Exactly  when  he  died  I 
cannot  say.  The  date  here  is  two  years 
after  his  removal  to  Dedham,  which 
would  afford  him  ample  time.  Some 
while  after,  this  Widow  Fisher,  —  whom 
I  suppose  to  be  the  Alary  in  tin;  text,  — 
of  Dedham,  had  liberty  given  her  by  the 
General  Court  to  take  the  administra 
tion  of  her  husband's  estate  for  the  bene 
fit  of  her  children  (.Ihtss.  Col.  lice.,  i. 
292).  This  Alary  Fisher  we  may  rea 
sonably  believe  to  have  been  the  widow 
who  joined  the  Boston  Church  in  1047, 
and  died  1053.  "Great  labor,"  says 
Savage,  "  I  have  found  to  conciliate 
these  Fishers  ;  and  some  of  it  may  seem 
unsuecess."  I  think,  however,  this  pas 
sage  in  Lech  ford  supplies  a  link  which 
was  wanting  in  Savage's  train  of  reason 
ing. 

In  regard  to  Elisha  Pmdges  and  John 
Blackstonc  and  Sara  his  wife,  I  regret 


to  say  my  researches -kave  been  less  suc 
cessful.  The  name  of  Elisha  Bridges 
does  not  occur  in  Savage  ;  Blackstone 
may  have  been  some  relative  to  the 
Rev.  Win.  Blaxton,  who  had  a  son 
John. 

It  seems  to  me  that  this  Johnson 
is  some  relative  of  Davy  Johnson,  who 
came  over  in  1030  in  the  "  Alary  and 
John"  with  Edward  Rossiter,  a  member 
of  the  Company.  They  both  settled  in 
Dorchester,  and  died  there,  —  Rossiter 
in  a  year,  and  Johnson  some  years  be 
fore  the  date  of  this  entry.  Edward 
Rossiter  had  a  son  of  the  same  name 
as  himself,  who  had  property  in  the 
county  of  Somerset.  I  feel  quite  sure 
that  the  Rossiter  here  alluded  to  is  one 
of  the  sons  of  Edward  Rossiter.  As  for 
the  Johnson,  I  am  more  doubtful.  All 
my  search  in  Savage  has  failed  to  find 
any  Johnson  with  wife  Jane.  Francis 
Johnson  of  Salem,  who  came  over  in 
the  same  year  as  Davy,  had  a  wife  Joan, 
and  he  and  his  wife  may  be  the  ones 
mentioned  here.  It  could  not  be  Davy 
Johnson  who  is  meant,  for  he  died  be 
fore  1030. 


LECHFORirS  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  181 

Daniel  Clerk c l  at  the  Kings  suit  for  misdemeanor  in 
drinking.  Witnesses  John  Wedgwood  &  Mary  his  wife,  and 
Anne  Crossc  she  thought.  [3.  G.] 

[116]  To  all  Christian  people  to  whome  these  presents  shall 
come  we  Christopher  Batt3  of  [vw,-]  in  New  England  planter 
and  Anne  Batt  wife  of  the  said  Christopher  send  greeting  in 
our  Lord  (Jod  everlasting  Knowc  }'ee  that  whereas  heretofore 
there  was  a  certaine  wine  license  granted  by  course  of  law  in 
that  Ivindc  to  me  the  said  Anne  it  to  Elizabeth  Maddox  the 
wife  of  William  Maddox  &  to  Katherine  Barriton  to  have  & 
to  enjoy  to  me  the  said  Anne  &  to  them  the  said  Elizabeth 
it  Katherine  for  and  during  the  lives  of  me  the  said  Anne  it 
of  them  the  said  Elizabeth  it  Katherinc  as  by  the  said  wine 
license  it  doth  and  may  more  at  large  appcare.  Now  wee  the 
said  Christopher  it  Anne  for  divers  good  causes  it  considera 
tions  us  thereunto  moving  have  released  surrended  &  con 
firmed  it  by  these  presents  doe  remise  release  it  confirm  unto 
the  said  Katherinc  all  our  right  title  it  interest  in  the  said 
wine  license  and  all  profits  it  commodities  therein'  accruing 
whatsoever  To  have  hold  it  enioy  all  our  said  right  title  it- 
interest  and  all  &  singular  the  premises  wth  the  appurte- 

1  Daniel  Clarke,  who  is  thus  arrested  trade;  but,  besides  this,  ho  wns  at  times 
at  the  King's  suit,  was  tried  at  a  quarter  drill   officer,    commissioner    for    trying 
court  held  in  Boston  Sept.  3,  1639,  and  small  causes,  and  many  times  deputy, 
found  to  be  an  immoderate  drinker.    He  He  came  from  the  city  of  Salisbury,  Eng- 
wa.s  fined  £2,  of  which,  says  the  Record,  land,  in  1638,  being  thirty-seven  years 
he  paid  35.  to  the  jury,  and  the  rest  to  of  age.     He  lived,  as  has  been  said,  at 
Increase  Nowell,  the  secretary.    Besides  Salisbury,  in  New  England,  and  removed 
this,  he  does  not  appear  again  in  court  to   Boston,  where   he  was   accidentally 
for  some  time, — nor,  indeed,  anywhere  killed  Aug.  10.  IfiGl.     Of  the  others  I 
else.     I  suppose  him  to  be  of  Ipswich,  can  find  no  mention,  and  suppose  that 
As  for  John  "\Vedgewood,  the  witness,  he  the  whole  transaction  refers  to  affairs  in 
got  small  good   for  his  trouble,  for  he  England  to  which  no  successful  illumi- 
was  condemned  to  be  s>-t  in  the  stocks  nation  can  be  applied.    "  Peter  Thatcher 
at  Ipswich  for  being  in  the  cnmpuny  <>f  clerke,"  called  "  our  beloved   brother," 
drunkards.      He  had  served  in   the  Pe-  may  have  been  the  rector  of  Salisbury, 
quot  war,  and  had  there  been  wounded.  "Wilts,  father  of  Ilev.  Thomas,  of  "\Vey- 

2  Christopher    Batt,    of    Colchester,  mouth,  or  brother  of  Rev.  Thomas  (and 
afterwards  Salisbury,  was  a  prominent  son  of  Eev.  Peter). 

man  in  his  town.     He  was  a  tanner  by 


182  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

nances  unto  the  said  Kathcrinc  and  her  assigns  for  ever. 
And  we  grant  unto  the  said  ivat.  that  we  will  at  any  time 
hereafter  within  the  space  of  live  yeares  next  ensuing  make 
any  further  reasonable  assurance  of  the  premises  unto  the 
said  Kathcrin  at  her  costs  &  charges  as  she  shall  require  by 
advice  of  Counsell  learned  in  the  law  so  that  for  the  making 
thereof  we  be  not  compelled  to  travel  above  the  space  of  tenn 
miles  from  our  dwelling  place.  In  witnesse  &c.  [2*.  u't/.] 

And  we  hereby  give  full  power  &  lawfull  Authority  unto 
our  beloved  brother  Peter  Thatcher,  clerke,  for  us  &  in  our 
names  generally  to  doe  all  &  every  other  act  &  acts  requisite 
for  the  firmc  conveyance  of  our  said  right  title  &  interest  in  the 
premises  unto  the  said  Katherinc  &  her  assigns  accordingly 
as  fully  &  effectually  as  if  we  ourselves  were  personally 
present.  In  Witt : 

[117]  To  the  lion11?  the  Governor,  Council  and  Assistants  of 
this  Jurisdiction  and  to  the  General  Court  thereof  assembled 
10-7-1039. 

The  humble  supplication  or  petition  of  THOMAS  LECH  FORD  [late 
of  Clements  Inn  in  the  county  of  Middlesex  Gent,  crossed 
out  on  revision]. 

Truly  showing  and  acknowledging  that  he  did  offend  in 
speaking  to  the  Jury  without  leave,  in  the  cause  of  William 
Cole  and  his  wife ;  and  so  much  the  more  inexcusable  was 
this  delinquent  inasmuch  as  he  knew  it  was  not  to  be  done  by 
the  law  of  England.  Yet  he  conceived  it  was  not  Embracery, 
for  that  he  had  no  reward  so  to  doe  ;  and  some  extenuation 
may,  he  conceiveth,  be  gathered  by  one  or  two  seeming  appro 
bations  of  the  like  which  he  hath  observed  in  other  Causes 
here.  Notwithstanding,  he  is  heartily  sorry  for  his  offence, 
and  acknowledge!!!  the  justice  of  this  Court,  and  is  comforted 
in  this  —  that  he  hopeth  it  may  doe  him  good  and  the  example 
be  a  benefit  to  the  publick.  Touching  his  speaking  in  publick 
for  future  time,  he  submitteth  to  the  wisdom  of  the  Court ; 
and  for  that  which  is  past,  he  came  to  the  Court  being  retained, 
and  it's  true  stood  there  at  the  lower  end,  next  the  deputy 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  183 

Marshal,  attending  unto  a  cause  or  two  wherein  your  peti 
tioner  was  retained.  It  was  to  show  his  readiness  to  do  the 
Country  any  service  he  might,  as  well  as  to  get  a  little  money 
for  himself.  Some  speeches  of  his,  specially  some  involuntary 
and  of  sudden  [interruptions?]  of  some  [in  authentic?]  being 
made,  whereof  some  might  he  occasioned  by  themselves  [being 
too  tartly,  as  he  concciveth,  rebuked  and  hindered  by  some  of 
the  Court]  and  zeal  of  speaking  for  his  matters,  may  seem  to 
offend  such  as  have  not  been  accustomed  much  to  publique 
pleadings  of  advocates.  Such  [passion  ?]  of  his  and  involun 
tary  offences  he  humbly  prayeth  may  bo  passed  by  :  and  such 
occasions  of  publique  pleadings  your  supplicant  will  readily 
forbear,  as  not  being  sullicient  or  inclinable  by  nature  there 
unto.  And  he  hopeth  that  this  Court  and  Country  may  upon 
trial  of  this  petitioner  in  some  other  [use]  find  him,  as  in  many 
things  [ignorant]  so  teachable  and  tractable.  In  the  mean 
while,  if  your  petitioner  hath  any  the  least  talent  to  doe  you  any 
service  in  any  way  of  profitting  himself  [for  his]  livelihood, 
he  desireth  it.  lie  is  heartily  ready,  and  humbly  prayeth  the 
same,  in  regard  of  his  low  and  poor  estate,  not  unknown  to 
some  of  your  Worships:  Unfeigncdly  desiring  both  to  live 
and  die  with  you  in  the  way  of  (J  oil's  ordinances,  wherein  your 
petitioner  hof>eth  in  some  good  time  or  other  some  of  the  rev 
erend  Elders  and  himself  may  come  to  a  perfect  or  at  least  a 
fair  understanding  of  each  other,  which  that  we  may  do  is  the 
unfeigned  daily  prayer  of  your  unworthy  petitioner. 

THOMAS  LECIIFORD. 


The  humble  peticon  of  ISAACKE  MORRELL  £  THOMAS  CARTER1 
blacksmithes  in  the  behalf e  of  themselves  $  the  rest  of  the 
blacksmithes  ivithin  this  Colony. 

Shewing  &  informing  this  Court  that  whereas  heretofore 
Coles  have  bin  in  this  Country  sold  them  for  30*.  a  chaldron 

1  Isaac  Morrell  and  Thomas  Carter  behalf  of  blacksmiths  ;  wln-nce  I  judge 
both  appear  in  the  Colonial  Records,  but  that  it  was  not  granted.  In  an  entry 
neither  in  connection  with  a  petition  in  Sept.  27,  1642,  the  Record  says  :  "The 


184 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


now  of  late  they  arc  ray  sod  to  41  lacking  but  2s.  chaldron,  and 
moreover  that  they  are  forced  speedily  to  buy  them  at  that 
great  price  or  els  they  can  not  be  gotten  for  money  but  are 
bought  up  &  sent  away  into  other  parts  of  this  Continent, — 
and  yor  peticoners  conceive  that  unlessc  some  speedy  remedy 
be  i'ound  out  to  help  &  prevent  these  mischeifes  their  trade 
will  be  much  hurt  and  the  commonwealth  deeply  prejudiced. 

Therefore  yor  peticoners  in  this  case  humbly  crave  the  Ad 
vice  &  help  of  this  Court  &  shall  dayly  as  their  duty  is  pray 
for  yor  health  &  prosperity  &  the  publicke. 

Will"1  Edwards  bound  in  5*  to  said  Mr  John  Stone  l  of 
Hertford  one  servant  within  12.  monetli  dat'  10.  7. 1639.  coram 
Nath.  Micklethwaite  &  meipse.  [Is.] 

To  all  Christian  people  to  wliome  these  presents  shall  come 
Wee  Thomas  May  hew2  of  Watertowne  in  New  England 


Governor,  Mr.  Dudley,  Mr.  Bellinghara, 
and  Incr.  Nowell  are  desired  to  consider 
of  Goodman  Morrel's  petition."  But  no 
further  mention  being  made  of  it,  I  sup 
pose  that  this  also  remained  ungnuited. 
Carter  is  noted  in  Wyman  (p.  186)  as  a 
blacksmith.  Morrill  was  born,  it  was 
said,  in  1588,  came  in  1G32  in  the 
"  Lion,"  and  lived  in  Roxbury.  He  had 
a  wife  and  several  children,  and  died 
Dec.  20,  1661. 

1  John  Stone  had  been  of  Hartford, 
but  shortly  after  this,   if  not  even  be 
fore,  removed  to  Guilford.     William  Kd- 
wards  was  freeman  at  Hartford  in  1658, 
although  he  had  been  there  since  1639. 

2  Thomas  Mayhew  was  at  this  time  of 
Watertown,  but  afterwards,  about  1647, 
together     with     his    son,    removed    to 
Martha's    Vineyard,    where    they    had 
charge  of  the  church   there    gathered. 
He  came  to  New  England  before  1632, 
having  with  him  his  wife  Jane  and  a  son, 
Thomas  Mayhew,  Jr.,  the  son  of  a  former 
wife,  at  that  time  ten  or  eleven  years 
old.     Thomas  Mayhew  died  in  the  Vine 


yard  1681.  His  son,  Thomas  Mayhew, 
Jr.,  \vus  lost  at  sea  in  1657,  at  the  age 
of  thirty-seven.  This  passage  should 
correct  some  confusion  in  Savage's  ac 
count  of  the  Mayhews,  father  and  son. 
Mr.  Savage  would  make  the  wife  of 
Thomas  Mayhew  the  elder  to  be  Grace, 
the  widow  of  Thomas  Paine.  Jane 
Paine,  he  thinks  (perhaps  a  daughter  of 
Grace),  was  the  wife  of  Thomas  Mayhew, 
Jr.  "  Nor,"  he  goes  on,  "  do  I  believe  that 
it  was  the  son  who  was,  in  1647,  chosen 
by  Tl1  )inas  Paine,  then  fifteen  years  old, 
as  witli  his  wife  Grace,  guardians  for  him." 
This  becomes  now  much  clearer.  If  we 
can  trust  Lech  ford,  we  must  believe,  iirst, 
that  the  widow  of  Thomas  Paine  was 
not  Grace,  but  Jane;  second,  that  Thomas 
Mayhew  Jr.'s  wife,  whatever  her  name 
may  have  been,  was  not  the  Jane  Paine 
here  spoken  of ;  and,  lastly,  that  whom 
ever  Thomas  Paine  chose  in  1647  at 
fifteen  years  of  age,  he  did  choose,  eight 
years  before,  his  father-in-law,  Thomas 
Mayhew,  and  his  mother,  Jane  Paine 
Mayhew,  to  be  his  guardians. 


IID'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  185 

merchant  and  Jane  Mayhew  wife  of  the  said  Thomas  Mayhcw 
sometimes  wife  of  Thomas  Payne  late  of  London  merchant 
guardians  it  tuitors  of  Thomas  Payne  an  infant  of  the  age  of 
seaven  yeares  or  thereabouts  sonne  of  the  said  Thomas  Pavne 
and  Jane  Mayhcw  send  greeting  in  our  Lord  (Jod  everlasting 
Knowc  yee  that  we  for  divers  causes  it  considerations  us 
thereunto  moving  Doc  herein'  constitute  ordeyne  it  appoint  it 
in  our  place  put  our  wellbeloved  ffriends  Ilichard  Pavne  of 
Abingdon  in  the  County  of  Berks  gent  John  Shepard  of 
Totnester  it  Edward  Barker  of  Yarnbrook  in  the  Count  v 
of  North10"  gent  and  John  Cooke  of  Wanting  [  /r^/^///-]  in 
the  said  County  of  Berks  yeoman,  our  true  it  lawfull  Attor 
neys  and  Procurators  jointly  or  severally  for  us  it  in  our 
names  and  in  the  name  of  the  said  Thomas  Payne  the  sonne 
lawfully  to  enter  on  it  to  make  a  lease  or  leases  of  all  or  any 
the  [118]  lands  and  tenements  whatsoever  of  the  said  Thomas 
Payne  the  sonne  situate  lying  it  being  in  Whittlebury  in  the 
County  of  Northampton  lawfully  descended  unto  him  from  his 
ancestors  or  any  of  them  for  any  terme  of  yeares  not  exceeding 
the  number  of  seaven  yeares  from  the  time  of  making  of  such 
lease  or  leases  and  so  as  no  such  lease  or  leases  be  made  in 
reversion  but  the  same  to  be  made  only  in  possession  and 
under  what  rent  it  rents  and  upon  what  covenant  or  conditions 
our  said  Attorneys  it  Procurators  or  any  of  them  shall  see 
fitting  And  also  from  time  to  time  to  discharge  place  it  dis 
place  lawfully  all  it  singularo  the  tenants  that  now  be  or  here 
after  shall  be  of  any  the  said  lands  or  tenements  and  from 
time  to  time  to  take  it  receive  to  the  use  of  ns  it  the  said 
Thomas  Payne  the  sonne  or  our  assignes  all  rents  issues  it 
prolitts  of  the  said  lands  it  tenements  w'"h  now  are  due  or  wch 
at  anytime  hereafter  shall  growe  or  be  due  to  the  said  Thomas 
Payne  the  sonne  or  to  us  for  him  out  of  the  premises.  And 
further  to  sue  for  receive  it  recover  the  rents  issues  it  profiitts 
of  the  said  lands  <t  tenements  and  all  childs  brothers  or 
nephcwes  porcons  or  parts  due  or  that  shall  be  due  unto  the 
said  Thomas  Payne  the  sonne  of  it  from  any  person  or  per 
sons  whatsoever  lyable  to  pay  it  render  the  same  to  the  use  of 
the  said  Thomas  Payne  &  of  us  it  our  assignes  for  him  And 


186  LKCIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

generally  to  doc  render  £  perform  all  &  every  such  lawfull  act 
&  acts  thing  &  things  touching  the  premises  for  and  in  the 
names  of  us  &  the  said  Thomas  Payne  as  we  shall  by  any  letter 
or  writing  under  our  hand  <fc  warrant  appoint  or  allow  to  be 
done  executed  or  performed  as  amply  &  fully  as  we  in  our 
ownc  proper  persons  may  or  might  doe  Hereby  ratifying  & 
confirming  all  &  every  thing  whatsoever  our  sayd  Attorneys 
and  Procurators  or  any  of  them  shall  lawfully  doe  concerning 
the  premises.  In  Witnesse  &c  dat'  18.  7.  1039.  Coram : 

And  I  John  Winthrop  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdicon  of 
the  Mattachusctts  Bay  in  New  England  doe  hereby  Certify  that 
the  abovesayd  Thomas  Payne  the  sonne  did  upon  the  day  & 
yeare  abovcsaid  appeare  before  me  wth  the  abovcsaid  Thomas 
Mayhew  &  Jane  his  wife  &  did  then  elect  &  choose  them  to 
be  his  guardians  &  tuitors  whereupon  the  said  Thomas  May- 
hew  &  Jane  his  wife  sealed  &  delivered  as  their.act  &  deed  the 
abovewritten  letter  of  Attorney  to  the  use  of  the  abovenamed 
Attorneys  &  Procurators  in  my  presence  In  testimony  where 
of  I  have  at  the  request  of  the  said  Thomas  Mayhew  &  Jane 
his  wife  caused  the  Common  scale  of  our  Colony  to  be  here 
unto  affixed  the  day  &  yeare  abovesaid.  [3s.] 

Payd  M!"  Samuel  Hutchinson  in  part  of  house  vent — 13s.  4d. 
[16.  7.  1639.] 

Payd  Mr  Micklctliwaytc  in  part  of  house  rent  &  making  of 
the  writingc  to  Mr  Richard  Hutchinson  —  8  —  4. 

[119]  John  Rogers1  of  Dedham  in  New  England  makes  a 
letter  of  Attorney  to  Arthur  Draper  &  Daniell  Rogers  to 
receive  36*  of  Thomas  Rogers  dated  17.  7.  1639.  [2*.  (M.] 

Elizabeth  Clover2  of  Cambridge  in  New  England  widdowe 
for  241  10s.  sells  to  John  Newgate  of  Boston  Feltmaker  all  that 

1  The  number  of  John  Itogerses  to  be  be  the  men  here  mentioned,  I  imagine 

found  in  Savage  is  so  large,  and  they  are  that  they  remained  in  England.   Arthur 

so  confused,  th.it  I  have  been  unable  to  Draper,  for  the  same  reason,   I   should 

fix  this  one  by  the  slight  hold  that  we  imagine  to  be  an  Englishman, 
have  on  him.      From   the  fact   that  no          2  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Glover  was  the  widow 

Thomas  and  no  Daniel  there  noted,  could  of  the  Ilev.  Josse  Glover,  of  Sutton,  in 


Li-ciironirs  M.\M;s<'nii>T  xorv-nooK.        187 

parcell  of  land  conteyning  forty  nyno  acres  or  thereabouts 
lying  neare  Rumiiey  marsh  in  Ne\v  England  abutting  upon 
the  sea  towards  the  east  upon  the  highway  leading  to  the 
Lotts  of  divers  men  towards  the  west  on  the  lands  of  Rich 
ard  Tnthill  on  the  north  and  the  lands  of  Samuel  Cole  on 
the  souih,  heretofore  assigned  by  the  Common  consent 
of  the  Townesmcn  of  L».  aforesaid  to  Ml;  Joas  Clover  late 
husband  of  the  said  Elizabeth  to  him  &  his  heircs  for  ever. 


BOSTON  IN  Xi:w  ENGLAND  2;>°  Soplembris  1030. 

Att  three  score  and  ten  days  after  sight  of  this  my  first  bill 
of  exchange  my  second  and  third  not  being  payd  1  pray  pay 
unto  Mr  Richard  llutchinson  of  London  linnen  draper  dwelling 
at  the  signe  of  the  Angell  &  Starre  in  Chcapside  or  his  assigncs 
the  summe  of  sixty  pounds  of  currant  money  of  England  for 
soe  much  here  received  of  Srgeant  Thomas  Savage  of  Boston 
aforesaid  I  pray  make  good  payment  &  place  it  to  account 
according  to  advice. 

THOMAS  ALLEN.1 


To  my  loving  friend  My  Roger  Delbridgc  merchant  at  his 
house  in  Barnstable  in  the  County  of  Devon.      [Is.] 

Borrowed  of  My  George  Story  2  -  5.?.     [21.  -7.] 

Surrey,  who  died  on  the  passage  to  New  likely  that  this  was  the  Rev.  Thomas 

England.      Mr.   Glover,   it  is  said,  had  Allen,  of  Cambridge,  the  friend  of  John 

made  contract  with  one  Stephen  Day  to  Harvard,  though  there  is  small  ground 

come  to  America  and  set  up  a  printing-  for  any  decision  among  the  three  or  four 

press   at  Cambridge.      Accordingly  we  Thomas  Aliens  mentioned  by  Savage. 

see  in  Winthrop  (i.  289)  that  Day  on  his  2  George   Story,    who    is    mentioned 

arrival  set  up  the  press,  although  Mr.  once   or  twice  after  this  in  the   Note- 

Glover   had   died.     Mrs.    Glover  subse-  book,  I  suppose  to  have  been  the  one 

quently  married  Henry  Dunster,  after-  who  assisted  Mrs.  Sherman  i     her  suit 

wards  tho  first  president  of  Harvard  Col-  against  Captain  Keayne  two  or  three  years 

lege  (S/i.VKtjr,).     Mrs.  Glover  is  frequently  after  this.     For  the  whole  of  the  story 

alluded  to  in  the  succeeding  pages  of  the  about  the  pig,  see  Winthrop  (ii.  G9,  11G). 

Note-book.     As  for  the  land  at  liumney  No  more  is   known   of  him,   however, 

Marsh,  see  post,  p.  141.  than  this,  unless,  says  Savage,  he  were 

1  Thomas  Allen.      I   think  it   most  in  1C43  ot  Maine. 


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LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Mr  Vincent  Potter1  tunics  over  Willin  Browne  to  Thomas 
Jove2  of  1)  Carpenter  for  such  time  as  he  was  to  serve  Mi"  Pot 
ter  to  wit  9  yea  res  from  the  day  of  his  arivall  heere  wch  was  the 
2:2th  day  of  June  last  :  for  wch  he  is  to  pay  101  at  receipt  of  the 
boy  A:  lUl  10°  Muii  px  A:  Mr  Potter  to  pay  the  money  coven 
anted  wlh  the  boy.  [:>«.  U</.] 

John  Wiekes3  of  Aqucdnccke  in  New  England  planter  to 
pay  to  William  Withington 4  31i  "20  dayes  after  sight. 

BOSTON  IN  NEW  ENGLAND,  21°  Sept.  1639. 

Att  twenty  daycs  after  sight  of  this  my  first  bill  of  exchange 
my  second  &  third  not  being  payd  1  pray  pay  unto  William 


1  Vincent  Potter  was  in  Now  Eng 
land  for  only  a  short  time.  He  came 
over  in  1635,  being  twenty-one  years 
old.  For  a  year  or  two  hi;  was  a  soldier 
at  the  castle,  luit  went  hack  to  England 
1639  (see  ante,  60,  65).  As  for  Wil 
liam  Browne,  he  may  he  the  same  who 
was  admonished  (Mass.  C\>L  lice.,  i.  315) 
not  to  use  such  base  speeches  as  he  had 
on  one  occasion  been  guilty  of.  Other 
wise,  I  fear  we  know  him  not,  —  unless, 
indeed,  he  be  one  among  the  thirteen 
"William  Brownes  to  be  found  in  Sav 
age. 

-  Thomas  Joy  is,  I  am  happy  to  say, 
by  no  means  such  an  unknown  quantity. 
He  was  a  house-carpenter,  who  was  at 
this  time  only  two  or  three  years  in  the 
town.  He  married  Joan,  the  daughter 
of  John  Gallop,  and  lived  in  a  house  on 
the  north  shore  of  the  Town  Cove  (Book 
of  Posficssitms,  K.  20,  p.  127),  some  few 
lots  to  the  east  of  his  father-in-law.  He 
removed,  however,  to  Hingham  about 
1G47,  and  lived  there  until  his  death  in 
1678.  As  late,  however,  as  1660  there 
is  a  reference  in  the  Town  Records  to  the 
accounts  of  Thomas  Joy  and  partner  for 
building  the  town-house  and  staircases. 
Who  the  partner  was  I  cannot  say.  It 
may  have  been  William  Browne. 


8  John  Wiekes  had  before  this  lived 
at  Plymouth,  where  he  is  said  first  to 
have  met  Samuel  Gorton,  with  whom  he 
subsequently  became  involved.  He  ori 
ginally  came  from  Staines,  in  Middlesex, 
where  he  had  been  a  tanner  ;  and  leaving 
his  brother  Thomas,  he  went  to  New  Eng 
land  with  his  wife  and  an  infant  daugh 
ter.  At  Portsmouth,  where  he  lived, 
he  seems  to  have  had  relations  with  the 
Hutchinsons,  who  remained  there  after 
Coddington  and  his  friends  had  with 
drawn  to  Newport.  In  1643,  however, 
Wickcs  moved  across  the  bay  to  what 
is  now  Warwick,  where  Gorton  and  his 
company  had  settled.  When  the  Gor- 
tonists  were  brought  to  Boston,  Wiekes 
was  one  of  them,  and,  with  six  others, 
was  condemned  to  confinement  with  hard 
labor  and  irons.  Wiekes  was  confined 
at  Ipswich,  Gorton  at  Charlcstown,  and 
the  rest  at  other  towns.  I  .should  im 
agine  that  he  was  released  shortly,  how 
ever,  for  in  1647  he  was  a  town  magistrate. 
He  was  killed  by  Indians  1675,  at  the 
age  of  about  sixty-six. 

4  William  Withington,  of  Newport, 
was  a  carpenter.  His  name  is  merely 
noted  by  Savage  as  being  on  the  list  of 
freemen  in  1655.  The  name  occurs  sev 
eral  times  in  the  Xotc-book. 


LECIIFORD'S   MAXUSCR1PT  NOTE-P>OQK.  189 

Witliiiigton  of  Aqucdiieckc  in  New  England  planter  or  his 
assignee  the  sumnie  of  thirty-one  pounds  currant  money  of 
England  for  so  much  of  him  heere  received  I  pray  make  good 
payment  &  place  it  to  account  according  to  advise. 

JOHN  WICKES. 

To  my  loving  brother  Mr  Thomas  Wickcs  dwelling  in  Stanes 
in  the  County  of  Midi.  [Is.] 

BOSTON  20.  Sept,   1G30. 

Att  twenty  eight  daycs  after  sight  of  this  my  first  hill  of  ex 
change  my  second  &  third  not  being  payd  I  pray  pay  unto 
M!"  Richard  Hutchinson  of  London  lyncn  draper  dwelling  Arc. 
4()l  for  so  much  here  received  of  Srgeant  Thomas  Savage. 

JOHN  WICKES. 

To  Mr  Tho  Wickes  ut  supra  and  401  more  30  Sept.  At 
40  dayes  sight.  [Is.  141  10*.  upon  14  daycs  <fce.] 

[120]  I  John  Winthrop  Esqr.  Governor  of  the  Mattaclmsctts 
Bay  in  New  England  doe  hereby  Certify  unto  all  manner  of 
persons  whatsoever  whoine  it  may  concernc  that  Isaackc  Aller- 
ton  merchant  hath  no  visible  estate  real!  or  personall  heere  in 
this  Jurisdiction  or  Country  for  the  present  to  my  knowledge 
and  yet  I  am  well  acquainted  wlh  him  &  his  trade  &  dealings 
in  this  Country  And  thus  much  1  have  thought  good  at  the 
request  of  Mr  Thomas  Allyn  to  testify  in  witncsse  whereof  I 
have  caused  the  Common  seale  of  our  Colony  to  be  hereunto 
affixed  the  20th  day  of  Sept.  Anno  Dmi  1030.  [!«.] 

Isaacke  Allertonof  New  Plimmouth  in  New  England  merchant 
aged  about  53  yearcs  sworne  saith  that  the  ship  White  Angell 
was  heretofore  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1031  bought  at  Bristoll 
of  Alderman  Aldworth  by  this  deponent  to  the  use  of  Mr  James 
Sherlcy  Mr  Richard  Andrcwes  M.r  John  Beanchamp  of  London 
merchants  l  Mr  Timothy  Hatherley  then  of  London  feltmakcr 

1  Shirley,  Andrews,  and  Beauchamp  Plymouth  people  looked  for  support  and 
were  the  London  merchants  to  whom  the  aid  ;  they  were  their  business  correspon- 


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LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


<fc  this  deponent,  but  this  deponent  saitli  that  the  said  Tim 
othy  Hathcrley  did  afterwards  refuse  to  aceept  of  the  said 
bargainc.  And  this  deponent  saitli  that  the  ship  Frcndship 
was  heretofore  hired  &  victualled  by  this  deponent  in  the  yeare 
aforesaid  for  the  use  of  the  said  Mr  Sherley  Mr  Andrews  M' 
IJcauchampe  Ml  Ilatherley  and  all  the  partners  <fc  purchasers  of 
the  plantation  of  Pliminouth  aforesaid.  And  further  this  de 
ponent  saitli  that  afterwards  divers  losses  falling  out  upon  the 
said  ship  Friendship  the  said  Mf  Ilatherley  and  this  deponent 
did  in  the  behalf  of  themselves  &  the  said  M'  Sherley  M^  An 
drews  &  Mr  Bcauchampe  agree  <fc  undertake  to  discharge  & 
save  harmlesse  all  the  rest  of  the  said  partners  &  purchasers 
of  &  from  the  said  losses  for  two  hundred  pounds.1  [Is.] 


dents.  The  business  affairs  of  the  Ply 
mouth  Colony  with  these  merchants,  as 
conducted  by  Allerton,  form  a  great  part 
of  the  subject-matter  of  Bradford's  His 
tory,  which  must  be  read  by  any  one 
who  would  entirely  understand  these 
matters. 

1  There  is  not  here  space  enough  to 
go  at  length  into  the  transactions  al 
luded  to  in  this  case.  Isaac  Allerton, 
the  business  man  of  the  Plymouth  Col 
ony  for  many  years,  in  1631  surprised 
and  grieved  his  New  England  friends 
by  bringing  across  the  Atlantic  these 
two  ships,  the  "  White  Angel,"  a  trad 
ing  vessel,  and  a  fishing  ship,  the 
"  Friendship."  The  following  is  from  a 
letter  from  James  Shirley  to  his  Ply 
mouth  partners: — 

"Gentle-men,  partners,  and  loving 
friends,  &e., — Bret-fly  thus:  we  have 
this  year  set  forth  a  fishing  ship  and  a 
trading  ship,  which  later  we  have  bought; 
and  so  have  disbursed  a  greate  deale  of 
money,  as  may  and  will  appear  by  y« 
accounts.  And  because  this  ship  (called 
ye  White  Angdl)  is  to  acte  2.  parts,  (as 
I  may  say,)  fishing  for  bass,  and  trading; 
and  that  while  Mr  Allerton  was  irn- 
ploycd  about  yc  trading,  the  fishing 


might  suffer  by  carelcsnes  or  neglccte  of 
ye  sailors,  we  have*  entreated  your  and 
our  loving  friend  Mr  Ilatherley,  to  goe 
over  with  him,  knowing  he  will  be  a 
comfort  to  Mr  Allerton,  a  joye  to  you, 
to  see  a  carefull  and  loving  friend,  and 
a  great  stay  to  y8  bussines." 

Upon  which  Bradford  comments  as 
follows:  — • 

"It  needs  not  be  thought  strange  that 
these  things  should  amaze  and  trouble 
them;  first,  that  this  fishing  ship  should 
be  set  out  .  .  .  And  now  a  ship  to  come 
on  their  accounte,  clean  contrary  to  their 
both  end  &  order,  was  a  misterie  they 
could  not  understand  ;  and  so  much  y° 
worse,  seeing  she  had  shuch  ill  success 
as  to  lose  both  her  voiagc  and  provissions. 
The  2.  thing,  that  another  ship  should  be 
bought  and  sent  oute  on  newe  dcsignes, 
a  thing  not  so  much  as  once  thought  on 
by  any  here,  much  less,  not  a  word  inti 
mated  or  spoaken  of  by  any  here,  either 
by  word  or  letter,  neither  could  they 
imagine  why  this  should  be.  liass  fish 
ing  was  never  lookt  at  by  them,  but  as 
soon  as  ever  they  heard  on  it,  they  looked 
at  it  as  a  vaine  thing,  that  would  cer 
tainly  turn  to  loss.  ...  At  length 
My  Hathcrley  &  Mr  Allerton  came  unto 


LKCll  FORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK, 


101 


A  note  given  by  M^  Tho :  Savage  to  pay  20*  upon  20  dayes 
sight  after  notice  of  401  payd  My  Richard  Ilutchinson  of  Lon 
don  by  John  Wickcs  to  be  payd  to  ihe  said  Jolin  Wickcs  or 
his  assg.  Dat'  26.  T.  1030.  Corani  me.  [GcJ.] 

Mr  David  Offley  l  &  Eliz :  his  wife  make  a  letter  of  Attorney 
to  My  Edward  Woolcott  Mr  Tlenry  Woolcott  Richard  Payne  & 
Christofcr  Atkins  or  any  of  them  to  let  <t  sell  receive  rents  & 
profitts  &  to  sell  their  interest  of  &  in  their  coppihold  lands  in 
Glaston  for  what  money  they  arc  well  worth  in  time  of  peace 
dated  20.  7.  1039.  [Is.  Qd.] 

[121]  A  letter  of  Assignment  <fe  Attorney  made  by  My  John 
Stratton  2  of  Salim  to  Mr  Richard  Ilutchinson  to  receive  50* 
of  My  John  Harrison  upon  a  writing  under  his  hand  of  100* 
penalty  dated  20.  7.  1039. 

And  1  John  Winthrop  Esqr  governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of 
the  Mattachusctts  Bay  in  New  England  having  seen  these 
presents  signed  scaled  <fc  delivered  <fc  taken  the  oath  of  Adam 
Winthrop3  my  sonne  aged  about  [nineteen]  yearcs  testifying 


them,  (after  they  had  delivered  their 
goods,)  and  finding, them  strucken  with 
some  sadness  aboutc  these  things,  M* 
Allcrtou  tould  them  that  yc  ship  Whit. 
Angell  did  not  belong  to  them,  nor  their 
accounte,  neither  neede  they  have  any 
thing  to  do  with  her  excepte  they 
would"  (Rruilford,  270  ct,  scq.). 

1  David  Ollley,  of  whom  we  have 
heard  before,  was  of  Boston,  and  had  a 
house  and  garden  on  what  is  now  Essex 
Street,  near  Chauncy.  He  was  a  mem 
ber  of  the  Artillery  Company.  Removed 
to  Plymouth  1643,  says  Savage,  for 
which  see  Plymouth  Colony  Records,  ii. 
57;  but  the,  date  of  the  Book  of  Posvrs- 
sions  (F.  106,  p.  87)  being  some  years 
later  than  this,  I  suppose  that  lie  moved 
back  again,  as  Savage  inferred.  He 
is  not  mentioned  in  the  Town  Records 
after  1639;  but  that  does  not  prove  that 
he  did  not  live  in  the  town,  for  he  might 


have  been  both  unimportant  and  inof 
fensive. 

2  Mr.  John  Stratton,  of  Salem,  is  a 
man  of  whom  we  hear  more  later  on  a 
different  subject.     He  came   to    Salem 
from  Scarborough,  where  he  was  as  early 
as  1633,  and  is  supposed  to  have  moved 
to  Easthampton,  L.  I.,  about  1643.     He 
is  mentioned   several   times  in  the  Col 
onial  Records,  in  various  ways, — once 
as  being  fined  for  lending  a  gun  to  an 
Indian  ;    again,  as  helping  to  run   the 
line  three  miles  north  of  the  Mcrrimac. 
For  a    continuation    of   this    particular 
case,  see  post.,  p.  126. 

3  Adam  Winthrop,  fifth  son  of  John 
Winthrop,   came   over   in    the   "Lion" 
1631;    married    Elizabeth,   daughter   of 
Mrs.  Glover,  of  whom  mention  has  al 
ready  been  made,  and  with  her  lived  on 
Governor's  Island,  in  the  Harbor.     He 
died  Aug.  24,  1652. 


19:2  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

that  he  sawe  the  said  John  Harrison  subscribe  the  said  bill  or 
writing  &  that  the  said  Adam  did  subscribe  his  name  also 
thereto  as  a  witncsse  as  thereby  appeareth  wch  bill  or  writing 
was  showed  unto  the  said  Adam  at  the  time  of  taking  his  said 
oatli  I  have  thought  good  at  the  request  of  the  said  John  Strat- 
ton  to  ccrtifyc  the  same  in  testimony  <fcc.  [Is.  8J.] 

A  letter  of  Assignment  &  Attorney  made  by  the  said  John 
Stratton  to  the  said  Richard  Ilutchinson  to  receive  the  said 
501  of  Mf  John  Harrison  upon  another  bill  dated  8  July  1639. 
dat'  2b'.  7.  1639.  [1*.] 

A  Coppy  of  both  these  bills,  with  this  Certificate. 

Forasmuch  as  the  abovcnamcd  John  Stratton  hath  assigned 
the  summe  of  fifty  pounds  due  unto  him  from  the  abovenamed 
John  Harrison  by  the  said  bills  or  writinge  or  one  of  them 
both  being  for  the  same  debt  unto  Richard  Ilutchinson  Citizen 
<fe  ironmonger  of  London  £  intcndeth  accordingly  to  send  over 
the  said  bills  or  writings  to  him  A  least  the  same  should  mis 
carry  these  Coppies  have  bin  taken  thereof,  I  John  Winthrop 
E.s<jr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  Mattachusetts  Bay  in 
New  England  having  examined  the  said  Coppies  by  the  origi- 
nalls  doe  fynde  them  to  accordc  verbatim.  Wch  at  the  request 
of  the  said  John  Stratton  I  have  throught  good  to  Kxemplifye. 
In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  caused  the  Common 
Scale  of  our  Colony  to  be  affixed  this  xxvi  th  day  of  September 
Anno  Dili  1039.  [Is.] 

Henry  Jackson  of  Watertownc  in  New  E:  planter  makes  a 
letter  of  Attorney  to  Edward  How1  of  Watertowne  One  of 
the  Elders  of  the  Church  there  to  receive  all  his  debts  in  New 
England  according  to  the  bills  wch  arc  given  him.  [Is.] 

]>e  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Eliza 
beth  Glover  of  Cambridge  in  New  England  widdowe  have 

1  Edward  IIo\v,  of  Watertown,  was  though  not  often  mentioned,  is  known 

"freeman  May  14,  1034,  ruling  elder,  to  have  been  a  lessee  of  a  fishing  weir 

often   selectman,    and    representative."  tin-re,  and  is  thought  to  have  moved  to 

Died  June,  24,  1G44.     Henry  Jackson,  Fairtidd,  where  he  had  some  estate. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


193 


received  of  John  Harris  Doctor  of  Divinity  &  warden  of 
the  College  neare  Winchester  &  of  Richard  Davys  Citizen  & 
merchant  of  London  Executors  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of 
Josse  Glover  late  of  London  my  husband  Deceased  the 
siiinmc  of  five  hundred  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England 
being  parte  of  the  goods  &  chattels  of  the  said  Josse  Glover  at 
the  time  of  his  death  <fc  by  him  bequeathed  unto  me  the  said 
Elizabeth  by  the  said  last  will  &  testament  and  1  doe  hereby 
remise  release  £  forever  quitt  day  me  unto  the  [122]  said  John 
Harris  &  Richard  Davys  their  executors  <fc  administrators  all 
&  all  manner  of  actions  &  demands  concerning  the  said  live 
hundred  pounds  in  witnesse  ito  '21 .  7.  1031).  4  of  these  acquit 
tances  all  before  R.  Bcllinghain :  Tho  :  Hawkins  Nehemiah 
Boarne 1  &  mysclfc.  [2.  8^/.] 

A  letter  of  Attorney  made  by  Valentine  Hill  to  Mr  Richard 
Ilutchinson  to  receive  [&/««&]  of  Mr  John  Harrison  dated  20. 
7.  1039.  n*.l 


Mr!9  Glovers  Inventory.     [2.9.] 


1  Those  three  names  are  in  the  same 
way  appended  as  witnesses  to  a  letter  of 
atlornov,  a  few  pages  farther  on,  from  this 
Mrs.  Glover  to  Joseph  Davis  and  Thomas 
Hawkins.  Mr.  Bellingham  was  at  this 
time  an  assistant.  Thomas  Hawkins, 
usually  railed  Captain  Hawkins  by  Win 
throp,  was  originally  of  London,  though 
he  owned  land  inCharlestown,  and  lived 
in  Boston  and  in  Dorchester  for  some 
years,  and  was  a  deputy  from  the  latter 
place.  His  business  was  that  of  a  ship 
wright,  but  he  was  also  a  merchant,  and 
part-owner  of  many  vessels.  lie  was  to 
some  extent  mixed  up  in  the  D'Aulnay 
and  De  La  Tour  complication,  which  we 
can  hardly  touch  here.  He  is  several 
times  mentioned  in  Winthrop.  Savage, 
in  his  notes,  .supposes  him  to  have  died 
abroad  (in  1648),  — which  is  likely 


enough,  as  he  passed  the  greater  part  of 
his  time  on  the  water,  and  was  quite  as 
likely  to  be  in  London  as  in  Dorchester. 
At  tin;  time  of  his  death  he  owned  prop 
erty  in  Dorchester  and  Boston.  He  had 
business  connections  with  Captain  Ed 
ward  Gibbons,  of  which  we  find  notice 
port,  p.  213.  Nehemiah  Bourne  was  a 
Charleston*!!  shipbuilder.  He  also  lived 
at  Dorchester  for  some  time,  and  a  year 
or  two  after  this  moved  to  Boston.  In 
1044  he  went  to  England,  as  major  of 
the  regiment  of  which  Israel  Stoughton 
was  lieutenant-colonel.  He  is  said  to 
have  commanded  a  ship-of-war  under  the 
Parliament.  He  mine  back  again  to 
Boston,  but  returned  to  England,  and 
died  in  1601.  See  Hist,  and  Gcneal. 
frg.,  xxvii.  20-30. 


13 


104  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Mr  John  Ilumfrcy  bound  to  M™  Eliz  :  Glover  in  eighty 
pounds  to  pay  at  2  moncths  or  els  to  give  cattell  in  payment 
according  to  the  rates  of  the  Country  at  the  time. 


Mf  Joseph  Davys  merchant  [Thomas]  Hawkins  Attorneys 
for  Mri3  Eliz  :  Glover  to  receive  <fcc  of  Dr.  Harris  &  Richard 
Davys  the  Executors  all  the  estate. 

Thomas  Watson  l  late  of  Duxbury  planter  makes  a  letter 
of  Attorney  to  Stephen  Tracy  of  the  same  planter  to  receive 
all  moneys.  Stephen  Tracy  46s.  Thomas  Goodman  53s.  John 
Moore  5s.  4d.  John  Barker  4s.  John  Groomc  20s.  :  Anna  Wat 
son  daughter  of  John  Watson  Deceased  dwelling  with  her 
mother  in  la\ve  Elizabeth  the  wife  of  John  Grey  dwelling 
ricarc  Quiiiapeagc  is  to  have  all  this  &  his  trunckc  with  the 
goods  in  it  if  he  dye  before  he  come  or  send  over.  John 
Groome  is  to  pay  this  20s.  to  himselfc  when  he  comes  over  or 
upon  notice  from  him  to  his  Attorney. 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  prsents  that  I  Elizabeth  Glover  of 
Cambridge  in  New  England  widdowc  doc  hereby  constitute 
ordeyne  and  in  my  place  put  my  well  beloved  friends  Joseph 
Davys  of  London  merchant  &  Thomas  Hawkins  merchant  my 
true  &  lawful  Attorneys  for  me  &  in  my  name  to  demand  & 
receive  of  John  Harris  Doctor  of  Divinity  &  Warden  of  the 
College  neare  Winchester  and  of  Richard  Davys  Citizen  <fc 
merchant  of  London  Executors  of  the  last  will  &  testament 
of  Josse  Glover  my  late  husband  deceased  all  and  all  manner 

1  Here  are  more  of  the  arrangements  of  Anna  Watson.     The  others  are  more 

of  Thomas  Watson  purposing  to  return  difficult  to  identify.    John  Groome,  who 

to  England.     Stephen  Tracy,  his  attor-  was  to  pay  20s.  to  himself  when  he  came 

ney,  had  been  in  New  England  for  a  long  over,  never  did  come  over  that  1  know 

time,  having  come,  to  Plymouth  in  1023.  of.     It  may  be  that  he  transacted  the 

He   did   not,  however,    remain   in   the  business  with  Thomas  Watson  when  he 

country,  but  went  home  to  England  in  met  him  in  England.     John  Barker,  it 

1655.     John  Grey  and  his  wife,  it  may  is  recorded,  moved  to  Marsh  field   from 

he  remembered,  soM  their  house  in  Lynn  Duxbury  1638,  and  was  drowned  1G52. 

to  Valentine    Hill.      Savage   calls   the  The  names  of  John  Moore  and  Thomas 

wife  of  John  Grey  the  Widow  Elizabeth  Goodman  are  not  found  elsewhere. 
Watson;  she  was  probably  step-mother 


LKcnroniys  MAxrscjurr  XOTK-HOOK.        195 

of  Simmies  of  money  goods  <t  chattels  given  it  bequeathed  to 
me  by  my  said  husband  in  it  by  his  said  last  will  A:  testament 
and  upon  receipt  of  the  said  summes  of  money  goods  it  chat 
tels  for  me  it  in  my  name  to  give  make  it  deliver  unto  the 
said  Executors  sufficient  tt  legall  acquittance  it  acquittances 
release  tt  releases  Hut  in  case  the  said  Executors  shall  refuse 
upon  demand  to  paye  it  deliver  to  my  sayd  Aftorne\  s  the  said 
summes  of  money  goods  it  chaff  ells  then  I  doe  hereby  authorize 
[123J  and  appoint  my  said  Attorneys  for  me  it  in  my  name  to 
sue  it  impleade  the  said  Executors  it  their  executors  and  ad 
minist  rators  and  all  other  administrators  of  the  goods  it  chat- 
tells  rights  it  credits  of  the  said  Jossc  Glover  not  administered 
that  shall  he  whatsoever  for  the  said  summs  of  money  goods 
it  chattells  and  the  same  of  them  it  every  [one]  of  them  by 
due  proeessc  to  recover  for  me  it  in  my  name  it  to  my  use  it 
behoofe.  And  further  for  me  it  in  my  name  to  make  doe  it 
execute  all  A:  every  other  lawfull  it  reasonable  act  it  acts  tiling 
it  things  requisite  for  the  receipt  it  recovery  of  the  said  summes 
ol  money  goods  it  chattells  as  powerfully  it  effectually  as  1 
myselfe  in  my  ownc  proper  person  might  or  could  doe  Hereby 
ratifying  A:  confirming  all  it  whatsoever  my  said  Attorneys  or 
any  two  of  them  in  case  one  should  dye  shall  lawfully  doe  in 
the  prmises  In  witnesse  etc  -7.  7.  IGoO  coram  llic  :  Belling- 
ham.  Tho  :  Hawkins  Nehemiali  Bourne  it  myselfe.  [~.  G.] 

A  pcticon  for  Nicholas  Frost '  of  Pascattaquay  mason  to 
(he  Governor  it  Deputy  it  the  Assistants  neare  at  hand. 

A  letter  of  Attorney  made  by  Ivatherinc  Earwiug  of  Dor 
chester  widdow  to  Nehemiali  Bourne  of  Dorchester  merchant 
it  Anthony  Earwing  of  London  mariner  to  receive  all  moneys 
due  to  her  in  England.  [Is.  Ifi.] 


1  Nicholas  Frost  was  banished  seven  pardoned   I  do  not  know.      In   1047  lie 

yenrsbe.forethisfortheft,  etc.,  committed  was  still  living  at  Pascattaquay,    with 

on  the  Indians  at  Dame-rill's  Cove.      lie  en-tain  associates,  "in  a  nio.st  ryotons, 

was  once  before  this,  in  103"),  punished  mutinus  &  turbulent  maner."     He  died 

by  a  line  ot  .£5  (which  was  remitted  him,  in  1603.      The  full  text  of  the  petition  is 

by    the  way).      Whether  he  were    evor  given  in  the  course  of  a  page  or  two. 


190  LKCHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

A  letter  of  Attorney  made  by  Nehemiah  Bourne  to  Mf  Sam 
uel  Sliepheard  l  of  Cambridge  gent  whereas  he  hath  payd  a 
1001  to  Mr  Nath  Eaton  for  wcb  he  hath  given  3  bills  of  ex 
change  charged  on  Mf  Thomas  Adams  of  London  woollen- 
draper  to  inquire  of  him  what  authority  order  or  po\ver  he 
hath  received  from  Mr  Adams  to  charge  the  said  bills  on  him 
&  if  in  case  he  cannot  produce  &  shew  such  lawful  authority 
in  writing  then  to  sue  him  to  put  in  sufficient  security. 

Me  Elizabeth  Glover  do  Cantabrigia  in  Nova  Anglia  wid 
tener1  <frc  Joseph  Davys  de  London  mcrcatori  in  350*  Dat'  27. 
7.  1G39.  [Is.] 

The  condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  whereas  the 
abovcboundcn  Elizabeth  Glover  heretofore  charged  certaine 
bills  of  exchange  upon  the  abovesaid  Joseph  Davys  for  three 
hundred  &  thirty  pounds  wch  he  accordingly  payd  to  one  Mr 
Grecnsmith  &  one  MrFooto,  if  heretofore  the  executors  of  the 
last  will  &  testament  of  Jossc  Glover  late  of  London  Deceased 
late  husband  of  the  said  Elizabeth,  shall  allowc  and  suffer  the 
said  Joseph  Davyes  to  pay  them  so  much  the  lesse  upon  the 
bonds  by  him  made  unto  the  said  Josse  Glover  in  his  life  time 
&  shall  thereof  remise  release  &  quittclayme  the  said  Joseph 
Davys  his  hcires  executors  &  administrators  all  actions  & 
demands  concerning  the  said  three  hundred  pounds  then  <fcc. 

1  Mr.  Samuel  Shepard  was  one  of  the  according  to  Winthrop,  he  spent  the 
prominent  citizens  of  Cambridge.  lie  greater  part  of  his  time  in  a  state  of  intox- 
came  over  in  1635  from  London,  and  be-  ication, — which,  it  would  seem,  was  the 
came  a  member  of  the  church  under  his  custom  of  the  country  at  that  time.  He 
brother,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Shepard.  He  finally  went  home  to  England,  and  there 
returned  to  England  some  time  after  died.  There  is  much  about  Eaton  in 
this,  and  served  in  Ireland  in  the  Civil  the  Note-book  after  his  flight,  but  unfor- 
War.  Nathaniel  Eaton,  of  Cambridge,  tunately  no  allusion  to  his  cruelty  to 
was  the  brother  of  Governor  Eaton  of  Brisco.  The  whole  story  is  told  in  Win- 
Connecticut,  ami  was  first  head  of  liar-  throp  at  great  length  (i.  308,  313).  There 
vard  College  (though  not  called  presi-  is  also  in  Winthrop  a  note  by  Savage 
dent).  He  fell  into  disgrace  in  Massa-  regarding  the  manner  in  which  the 
chusetts  on  account  of  his  treatment  of  scholars  were  treated,  in  connection  with 
one  Brisco,  a  scholar;  and,  on  being  cen-  which  it  may  be  interesting  to  compare 
sured  by  the  court,  he  fled  to  Pascatta-  the  Note-book,  p.  201,  post,  in  regard  to 
quay,  and  thence  to  Virginia,  where,  Samuel  Hough,  one  of  Eaton's  scholars. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  197 

[124]  Josiali  Stanborough1  of  Lynno  in  New  England 
planter  &  Frances  his  wife  daughter  of  Henry  Cransdcn  of 
Turnbridge  in  the  County  of  Kent  Deceased,  whereas  the  said 
II.  Gransden  in  his  life  time  stood  lease  of  certaine  l^ids  & 
tenements  in  Tunbridgc  «fc  at  Stansted  also  in  Kent  wch  lands 
were  bequeathed  with  certaine  rent  charge  among  other  things 
of  51  a  ycare  to  the  said  Frances  by  the  last  will  &  testament  of 
the  said  II.  G.  &  were  also  descendible  to  Joane  Alice  Anne 
Mary  Frances  Sarah  <fc  Martha  his  daughters  notwithstanding 
Alice  Gransden  wid  hath  sold  the  said  lands  &  tenements  in 
Tunbridge:  to  sue  her  in  the  Court  of  Requests  or  Chancery  to 
pay  them  their  parts  as  well  as  the  4  elder  Avcb  is  200.  Attor 
ney  Richard  Young  Citizen  &  cooper  of  London.  [Is.] 

The  humble  peticon  of  Nicholas  Frost  mason.  Showeth 
that  whereas  yor  petieoner  being  a  banished  man  and  notwith 
standing  having  he  trusteth  in  some  measure  through  the  grace 
of  God  repented  of  his  sinnes  <fc  trespasses  wherefore  lie  was 
iustly  banished  and  being  before  yor  worpps  some  time  since  the 
said  Sentence  of  banishment  he  conceived  by  some  words  then 
spoken  by  some  of  yor  worpps  that  he  might  come  into  this 
Jurisdiction  about  his  necessary  businesse  &  affaires  yor  pcti- 
corier  did  in  simplicity  of  his  heart  not  intending  any  contempt 
repayre  hither  about  his  occasions  ;  but  since  he  understands 
that  there  is  no  order  entered  yet  for  revocation  of  the  said 
Censure  he  knoweth  he  hath  offended  and  is  heartily  sorry 
therefore  <fe  Humbly  prayeth  he  may  be  for  this  time  dis 
charged  of  his  imprisonment  <fc  he  promiscth  never  to  come 
hither  againe  without  Licence  by  Order  of  the  General  I  Court 
&  shall  as  his  duty  bindes  him  pray  for  yor  worpps.  [1.  G.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Nehemiah  Bourne  of 
Dorchester  in  New  England  merchant  doc  hereby  constitute 
ordeync  &  in  my  place  put  my  wellbelovcd  ffriend  Samuel 
Shcphcard  of  Cambridge  in  Nc\v  England  gent  my  true  & 

1  Josiah  Stanborough  moved  to  Long  anipton,  and  died  there  1639.  Nothing 
Island,  perhaps  in  the  same  company  of  his  antecedents  is  known  to  enlighten 
as  John  Stratton.  He  settled  in  South-  the  present  facts. 


198  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

lawfull  Attorney  for  me  &  in  my  name  to  sue  arrest  &  im- 
pleade  Nathaniel  Eaton  of  Cambridge  aforesaid  gent  for  the 
summe  of  one  hundred  pounds  wch  he  received  of  me  upon  -or 
about  the  [blank]  day  of  [WUM&]  last  past  and  wch  he  owcth  me 
<fc  the  same  of  him  his  executors  &  admrs  to  recover  to  my  use 
unlcssc  he  or  they  can  shewe  sufficient  authority  order  & 
]>o\ver  in  writing  that  he  had  to  charge  the  said  one  hundred 
pounds  upon  Thomas  Adams  of  London  Woollcndrap.  by  cer- 
taine  bills  of  exchange  And  further  to  doe  any  other  lawful 
act  or  thing  touching  the  premises  as  effectually  &  power 
fully  as  1  myselfe  in  my  owne  pper  person  might  or  could  doe 
Ratefyiug  <tc.  [1.  0.] 

[125]  Mr  Will™  Leigh  of  Gratoton  in  Suff  &  his  wife  a  letter 
for  Martha  Hancock  for  service  goodman  Golston  goodman 
Newton  Mather  Stephen  Gostlin  and  their  wives  &  to  Eliz. 
Jordcn  &  to  the  rest  &  to  her  Cosin  Harbert  &  his  wife, 
especially  to  her  brother  Robert.1 

A  letter  of  Attorney  for  Henry  Grey2  now  of  Boston  in 
N.  E.  t.  &  heretofore  citizen  &  mrchant  t  of  London  to  Joseph 
Young  mariner  to  receive  &  recover  8l  of  George  Spencer 
dat'  28.  7.  1039.  coram.  [Is.] 

1  I  believe  all  those  persons  to  be  ut  sion  of  any  place  of  residence  would  lead 

this  time  in    Kngland.     The  names   of  one  to  doubt  their  being  in  New  Eng- 

Golston,  Newton  Mather,  Stephen.  Gost-  land  at  this  time. 

Jin,  are  not  to  be  found  in  Savage's  2  This  name  is  mentioned  four  times 
Dictionary,  while  it  seems  impossible  in  the  Note-look,  and-  each  time  in  so 
to  identify  Martha  Hancock,  Cousin  cursory  a  manner  that  speculations  as 
Herbert,  and  Robert  Hancock  on  the  to  the  identity  are  almost  useless.  First, 
slight  information  here  given.  It  is  curi-  Henry  Gray  is  spoken  of  (ante,  p.  47)  as 
ous  that  so  marked  a  name  as  Mather  an  honest  young  man  with  a  brother  who 
should  appear  with  the  unknown  Chris-  is  a  citizen  of  London.  In  this  place 
tian  name  of  Newton.  Mr.  Richard  Henry  Gray  was  formerly  a  citizen  and 
Mather,  the  father  of  Increase,  was  at  merchant  of  London  himself.  The  next 
this  time  in  America  with  his  sons,  the  mention  (p.  141)  is  in  a  bill  of  ex- 
eldest  of  whom  was  thirteen  years  old.  change  drawn  by  his  brother  William 
It  may  !><•  that  Newton  Mather  was  re-  Gray  on  Jeremiah  White,  of  Plymouth  ; 
latcd  to  him.  I  have  not  come  across  and,  lastly  (p.  176),  there  is  a  deed  of 
the  name  in  reading  the  Magnalia,  nor  a  house  from  one  Henry  Gray  of  Bus- 
indeed  any\yhere  save  here.  The  onus-  ton  to  Thomas  Lechford.  \ni\\Qlioston 


LECHFORD'S  MAXUXCIUPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

I  Thomas  Watson J  late  of  Duxburv  in  No\v  Eughmd  planter 
purposing  God  willing  to  imbsirUe  mvsrjfe  [or  I«]nghind  very 
shortly  &  considering  the  i'raylty  of  my  life  L  thought  good  & 
do  make  my  will  in  this  manner  I  commend  inyselfe  my  soulo 
tfe  body  unto  the  dispose  of  Hie  Almighty  &  touching  a  few 
debts  &  goods  that  1  have  heere  1  give  <fc  bequeath  ihem  unto 
my  neiee  Anna  Watson  daughter  of  John  Watson  Deceased 
dwelling  wth  her  mother  in  law  Elizabeth  the  wile  of  John 
Grey  dwelling  nearc  Quinapeagc;  that  is  to  say  forty  six  shil 
lings  owing  to  mo  by  Stephen  Tracy,  fifty  three  shillings 
owing  to  me  by  Thomas  Goodman  five  shillings  foure  pence 
owing  to  me  by  John  Moore  foure  shillings  owing  to  me 
by  John  Barker  and  twenty  shillings  owing  to  me  by  John 
Groome,  <t  one  truncke  of  clothes  &  other  things  \vch  1  have 
leaft  with  John  Stevanes  of  Boston  taylcr,  And  i  name  my 
executor  hereof  the  said  John  Grey.  Witnesse  my  hand  the 
28.  7.  1039.  [1.  6.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  we  Josiah  Stanboraugh 
of  Lynne  in  New  England  planter  <fe  Frances  his  wife  Daugh 
ter  of  Henry  Gransden  late  of  Tunbridgc  in  the  County  of 
Kent  gent  Deceased  doe  hereby  constitute  ordeyne  cv  in  our 
place  put  our  wellbeloved  tfc  trusty  ffriend  Richard  Young 
Citizen  &  Cooper  of  London  our  true  &  lawfull  Attorney  for 
us  £  in  our  names  to  demand  &  receive  of  and  from  Alice 
Gransden  of  Tunbridgc  aforesaid  widdowe  all  such  summes 

Town    Records    is    mention    of    Henry  ]>.  101  (Tnnnbull's  od.).     As  for  George 

Gray,    a    tailor.      Besides   this,   .Savage  Spencer,  there  is  mention  of  one,  of  his 

mentions  Henry  Gray,  Fairfield,  1C 43,  name  being  punished  for  receiving  sto- 

with  wife  Lydia.     Otherwise,  1  find  no  len  goods  (Jfass.  Col.  Jlcc.,  i.  203). 

mention  of  Grays  or  Greys  either.     Mr.  1  This  is  the  last  mention  of  Thomas 

Trumljull  thinks  that  there  was  but  one  "Watson,  who  probably  did  sail  for  Kng- 

Ilenry   Grey,   a    tailor  of   London  and  land  as  he  purposed;  though  whether  he 

afterward    of   Boston,   who   had   a   wile  ever   reached   the  country  in   safety  we 

Lydia.       lie     rails    ,lohn     Grey     (<r,if<'t  can  hardly  be  sure.      To  the  facts  stated 

j>.  122)  and  Henry  Grey  brothers,  and  about  those   indebted   to  him    1    regret 

supposes    their    wives    to    be    Elizabeth  that  I  can  add  nothing.     I  have  learned 

and  Lydia,  daughters  of  William  Frost,  nothing  of  them,  nor  of  John  Stevens, 

of   Nottingham.     See  Conn.    Col.  Jlcc.,  —a  name  which  occurs  frequently  in 

i.   465,  and  Lechford's  Plaine  Dealing,  Savage. 


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of  money  as  are  due  unto  us  for  our  parte  of  the  lands  & 
tenements  in  Tunbridgo  aforesaid  whereof  the  said  Henry 
dyed  seized  &  wch  together  wth  other  lands  &  tenements  were 
charged  with  a  certaine  rent  charge  or  annuity  to  us  or  one 
of  us  payable  by  vcrtue  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  the 
said  Henry  Gransden  whereof  the  said  Alice  was  made  Execu 
trix  &  who  proved  the  same,  wch  lands  and  tenements  were  also 
lawfully  descended  unto  us  or  one  of  us  together  with  ye  six 
other  sisters  of  me  the  said  Frances  wch  lands  &  tenements 
the  said  Alice  hath  sold  &  passed  away  to  [&/«><&]  of  [i/a»i&]  his 
heires  &  assigncs  and  hath  satisfycd  &  payd  the  foure  elder 
sisters  of  me  the  said  Frances  for  their  parts  of  the  said  lands 
&  tenements  but  hath  not  yet  payd  us  or  either  of  us  for  our 
said  parte  thereof  And  upon  receipt  of  the  said  summes  of 
money  for  us  &  in  our  names  to  make  &  give  a  sufficient  &  legall 
release  and  discharge  for  the  same  &  for  the  said  rent  charge  or 
annuity  unto  the  said  Alice  and  further  to  make  &  execute  any 
other  reasonable  and  lawfull  act  or  deed  acts  or  deeds  for  the 
firme  conveyance  of  our  interest  in  the  premises  unto  the  said 
Alice  or  [&/u»fc]  and  their  or  either  of  their  heires  or  to  any  other 
person  or  persons  whatsoever  as  the  said  Alice  shall  appoint 
And  in  such  case  we  grant  that  we  will  make  &  levy  &  exe 
cute  or  cause  to  be  made  levyed  &  executed  any  other  reason 
able  assurance  or  assurances  in  the  lawe  whatsoever  for  the 
settling  of  the  premises  accordingly  as  the  Counsel  learned  in 
the  Law  of  the  said  Alice  shall  advise  or  require  so  that  for 
the  doing  levying  £  executing  thereof  we  be  not  [126]  com 
pelled  to  travell  forth  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the  Mattachusetts 
Bay  in  New  England.  But  in  case  the  said  Alice  shall  refuse 
to  satisfyc  &  pay  the  sayd  summes  of  money  to  our  said  At 
torney  then  we  doc  hereby  Authorize  &  appoint  our  said  Attor 
ney  by  advice  of  good  Counsell  learned  in  the  law  to  sue  arrest 
<fe  implcade  the  said  Alice  &  her  heires  executors  &  admini 
strators  and  the  said  [W«w&]  all  or  any  of  them  in  his  Mats 
Courts  of  equity  &  iustice  thereby  to  compcll  her  <fc  them  to 
reconvey  &  settle  the  said  lands  &  tenements  in  such  estate 
&  condition  as  they  were  in  at  the  time  of  the  death  of  the 
said  Henry  and  also  to  recover  of  &  from  her  &  them  our  said 


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201 


Rent  charge  or  annuity  Hereby  ratifying  all  ct  whatsoever  our 
said  Attorney  shall  lawfully  cv  reasonably  doe  in  the  premises 
In  witnes  ifcc  28.  7.  1.G39.  (T>-  8.  r  in  pic.  r>.v.  1-8-  Hi:5!).] 

A  letter  to  M?  Ilarlow1  fr°  Mr  Stanborou<rh  in  this  matter. 

A  letter  of  Attorney  made  by  John  Stedman2  to  Mr  Tlio  : 
Hawkins  to  receive  of ,  the  executors  of  Mr  (Hover  f)()l  legaev 
dated  28.  7.  liUU).  cv,  a  release  to  the  Executors. 

And  1  John  Winthrop  Esrjr.  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of 
the  Mattaclmsctts  13ny  in  New  England  having  seen  these 
presents  signed  scaled  <$:  delivered  by  the  abovcnamcd  Josiah 
Stanborough  k  Frances  his  wife  to  the  use  of  the  abovenamed 
Attorney  have  thought  good  at  the  request  of  the  said  .losiah 
tt  Frances  to  Certifyc  the  same  and  the  rather  that  it  might 
appeare  unto  all  whome  it  may  eoncernc  that  the  said  Josiah 
&  Frances  are  at  this  time  in  full  life  &  health  In  testimony 
whereof  I  have  caused  the  Common  sealc  of  our  Colony  to  be 
hereunto  affixed  the  said  last  day  of  September  1G-V.). 

Me  Johen  Elford3dc  Salem  in  Nova  Angli.i  Nauta  tener' 
Jolii  White  de  Dorcesteria  in  com  Dorst  (Tico  <t  Thome 
Bustecd  de  eadem  (}en  in  24*  coram  me  ct  Willo  Pierce4 
iund.  81.  7.  1039. 


1  Mr.    ILirlowe    may  have   boon    the; 
young  man  (mentioned  by  Savage  as  a 
means  of  introducing   his   three   wives 
and   thirteen  children)    who    had  been 
living  at  Lynn,  but  was  now  at  Sand 
wich  or  Plymouth.     More  probably  how 
ever  lie  was  in  England. 

2  John  Stedman,  of  Cambridge,  namo 
from    England   in    the   same   yenr,    and 
probably  in  the  same  ship,  with  the  Ilev. 
Josse  (Hover.      lie  was  often  selectman 
of  Cambridge,    and    in    1045,    "on   the 
town's  request,  he  was  established   En 
sign    of   the  eompanv   there,"   says   the 
Colonial    Record.       He   died    in    1G93, 
being  ninety-two  years  old. 


3  John  Elford,  of  Salem,  was  in  1630 
in  trouble  on  an  accusation  of  murder 
of  one  Thomas  Puekctt  ;  but  I  cannot 
find  out  that  the  case  was  ever  decided 
one  way  or  another.     He  was    excom 
municated   in   1(539,    says   Savage,   who 
classes  him  with  "  Roger  Williams  and 
other  outcasts."     lie  is  called  here  "tie 
Amsterdam,"  but  the  phrase  was  crossed 
out  and  "  nuprr  d^  Sttjr.m  "  substituted. 
"Crico"   perhaps   is   short  for  Cli'.rico. 
This  would  be  naturally  enough  applied 
to  the   I!ev.  John  White  of  Dorchester, 
England.     [T.] 

4  There  wen;  two  persons  of  the  name 
of   William    Tierce,    each    sufficiently 


202  LECUFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Condiconed  to  pay  121  Gs.  CJ.  upon  the  29.  Sept  1G40  at  or 
in  the  house  called  or  knowuc  by  the  signc  of  the  King  of 
England  Bristoll  &  njion  the  [illegible]  in  Amsterdam  being 
the  house  of  Constantino  Welles.  [Is-] 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  John  Stratton  of 
Salem  in  New  England  gent,  for  and  in  parte  of  payment  of 
fifty  pounds  wch  I  owe  unto  Valentine  Hill  of  Boston  in  New 
England  mercer  doc  hereby  give  &  grant  unto  the  said  Valen 
tine  Hill  all  that  my  lott  or  farinc  granted  and  assigned  to  me 
by  the  Townsmen  of  Salem  aforesaid  conteyning  one  hundred 
acres  or  thereabouts  be  it  more  or  lesse  lying  &  being  in  the 
village  within  the  precincts  of  the  said  towne  of  Salem  neare 
the  lands  of  Mr  Hawthorne 1  &  Lieutenant  Davenport  wtb  the 
appurtenances  To  have  &  to  hold  the  said  lott  or  farme  wth 
the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Valentine  Hill  his  heircs  &  as 
signs  for  ever  1  say  in  parte  of  payment  of  so  much  of  the  said 
fifty  pounds  as  the  said  premises  arc  well  worth  but  if  the 
premises  arc  worth  fifty  pounds  then  in  full  payment  of  the 
said  fifty  pounds  [127]  then  what  in  value  the  same  shall  come 
shortc  of  the  said  fifty  pounds  1  or  my  heircs  executors  or 
adm™,  shall  &  will  pay  &  satisfy  unto  the  said  Valentine  Hill 
his  executor  or  administrators  as  soonc  as  the  said  Valentine 
Hill  shall  receive  newcs  from  England  that  the  said  fifty  pounds 
are  not  or  cannot  be  recovered  of  John  Harrison  gent  by  vertue 
of  one  letter  of  Attorney  made  by  me  unto  Richard  llutchin- 
son  Citi/en  it  Ironmonger  of  London  upon  a  bill  or  writing 

important.     I  take  this  one  to  Le  Mr.  1(>;>4.     lie  was  often  a  representative, 

William    Pieive,   who    came,   in    1G33,  and    served   as   a   captain  or  major  in 

in   the    "(irillin"   with    John    Cotton  King  Philip's  War.     Lieutenant  Duvcn- 

and   Hooker  and  others  (for  whom  see  port  was  one  of  the  earliest  inhabitants 

Jfr'inth.,  i.  lo1.)).     The  other  man  of  the  of  Salem,  having  come,   in  ItiiiS,  with 

name  was   Captain  William    Pierce,    a  Endicott.     He  was  an  ensign  in  1G34, 

prominent  merchant,  of  whom  mention  and    in    1G:>G  was   a   lieutenant  in  tho 

will  Le  made  later.  Pe<]uot  War.     He  was  subsequently  cap- 

1   I  am  sorry  not  to  be  able  to  place  tain  of  the  castle  in   Boston,  where  he 

exactly   the    lot   here   referred   to.      Mr.  had  moved,  and  was  killed  by  lightning 

Hawthorne  was   probably  William  Ha-  in   1GG5.      (For  the   letter  of  attorney, 

thorn,  who  came  in  the  "  Arbella"  with  see  ante,  p.  121.) 
Wiathrop,  and   moved  to  Salem  about 


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whercnnto  Adam  Winthrop  was  wilncssc  according  to  appoint 
ment  of  the  said  Valentine  Hill  &  to  the  said  Richard  JJutch- 
inson  his  executors  administrators  or  assignes  according  to  the 

said  letter  of  Attorney  then  this  present  gift  it  grant  shall  be 
voyd  ct  of  no  force.  And  1  further  Covenant  promise  tt  grant 
t'j  &  wtl  the  said  Valentine  Hill  that  I  will  pay  all  costs  and 
charges  to  be  expended  in  the  endeavour  to  recover  the  said 
fifty  pounds  of  the  said  John  Ilarrisson  if  the  same  shall  not 
be  recovered  of  him.  In  witnessc  <tc.  [1.  (>.] 

John  Bourne  1  bound  to  Mr  Nchemiah  Bourne  for  0  yeares 
if  he  will  undertake  at;  his  coming  from  England  to  instruct 
him  in  the  trade  of  a  shipwright  if  not  for  4  yeares  dated  nit 
Sept  lO-W.  eoram  me  tt  T.  Savage.  [2x.J 

A  letter  of  deputation  by  Mr  Nehcm  :  Bourne  to  Hannah  his 
wife  to  receive  debts  etc  dated  ult  7.  1639  coram  Tho :  Savage 
ct  meipe.  both  these.  [Is.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Walter  Blackbourne 
late  of  Roxsbery  in  New  England  Planter  doe  hereby  for 
21 51  to  me  in  hand  payd  by  William  Cheney  of  Roxbery  afore 
said  planter  doe  hereby  grant  bargaine  ct  sell  unto  the  said 
William  Cheney  all  that  my  dwelling  house  in  Roxberry  afore 
said  with  the  lands  &  ground  heretofore  by  me  bought  with 
the  same  that  is  to  say  six  acres  of  upland  meadowe  more  or 

'  I  cannot  say  who  John  Bourne  is,  This  I  infer  from  the  deeds  in  Lech  ford 
but  think  that  lie  is  not  mentioned  by  (post,  pp.  215,  216),  in  which  Eli/abeth 
Savage.  Possibly  he  never  came  over  Blaukburne  transfers  this  lot  to  Fran- 
from  England.  Much  is  found  in  the  cis  Lisle,  barber  (see  also  Stiff.  Deeds,  i. 
Note-book  in  regard  to  transactions  be-  20).  The  lot  may  be  found  in  the  re- 
tween  Walter  Blnckbnrnc  and  William  print  of  the;  Book  of  Possessions  (F,  65, 
Cheney,  as  well  as  the  proceedings  of  p.  83)  with  this  note  :  "  Walter  Black- 
Elizabeth  Blaekburne  after  her  bus-  burne  had  his  lot,  which  Kli/abeth  .  .  . 
band's  departure  for  Europe.  I  suppose  sold  in  1G41  to  Francis  Lyle  the  bar- 
tins  bouse  and  land  to  be  the  same  that  bcr."  Blackburne's  lot  was  said  to  be 
he  bought  of  Nicholas  Parker  (ante,  in  the  "Gentry  Field."  Perhaps  the 
p.  35).  He  moved  into  Boston  after  sell-  site  in  the  Hook  of  Possessions  could  not 
ing  this  house,  and  lived  on  Wash-  come  under  this  head;  in  which  case  I 
ington  Street,  about  opposite  the  spot  suppose  there  were  two  lots, 
where  the  Old  South  Church  nowstands. 


204  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

lesse  six  acres  of  salt  marsh  more  or  lesse  sixteene  acres  in  a 
grcatc  lott  with  a  Common  fence  nync  acres  &  an  halfc  of  wooddy 
upland  unfcnccd  twelve  acres  of  a  rocky  woody  lott  fenced 
teim  acres  belonging  to  the  said  house  and  two  acres  more  or 
lessc  by  me  heretofore  also  purchased  at  another  time  and  also 
the  Co\vc  house  or  barnc  set  up  but  not  quite  finished  A:  all 
my  hay  upon  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances  and  all  writ 
ings  concerning  the  same  that  I  have  in  my  custody  To  have 
<fe  to  hold  the  said  house  &  dwelling  &  all  and  singulare 
the  premises  wtb  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said 
Willm  Cheney  his  hcires  &,  assignes  for  ever  In  witncsse  £c. 
dat'  ult  7.  1039.  [1.  8.] 

Me  Willm  Cheney  de  Roxberry  in  Nova  Anglia  plantator 
tener'  Walter  Blackbournc  in  110*  dat'  ult  die  Sept  1639. 

Conditioned  for  payment  of  55*  29.  7.  1640  at  the  dwelling 
house  of  the  said  Walter  in  Boston.  [1.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  last  day  of  September  in  the  15th 
yearc  of  the  raignc  of  our  Sovcraigne  Lordc  Charles  now  King 
of  England  <tc  Annocp  Dmi  1639,  Betweene  Walter  Black- 
bourne  late  of  Roxberry  in  New  England  planter  of  the  one 
parte  And  William  Cheney  of  Roxberry  aforesaid  planter  of 
the  other  parte  Witnesseth  that  the  said  Walter  Blackbourne 
for  divers  good  considerations  him  [128]  thereunto  moving 
doth  by  these  presents  grant  alien  A:  cnfeoffc  unto  the  said 
William  Cheney  eight  acres  of  salt  marsh  more  or  lesse  lying 
in  Roxberry  aforesd  And  five  acres  of  upland  whereof  three 
acres  arc  ploughed  &  some  broken  up  <fe  fenced  And  twelve 
acres  &  an  halfe  of  upland  wooddy  ground  unfeneed  wtb  all 
my  posts  &  rayls  provided  to  fence  the  same  wth  the  appurten 
ances.  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  lands  &  premises  wth  the 
appurtenances  unto  the  said  Wm  Cheney  his  hcires  &  assignes 
for  ever  Yeilding  <k  paying  unto  the  said  Walter  Blackbourne 
his  hcires  <fc  assignes  for  the  premises  the  yearelyfee  farinc  rents 
following  that  is  to  say  for  the  said  eight  acres  of  salt  mrs 
three  pounds  for  the  said  live  acres  of  upland  ploughed  broken 
up  &  fenced  foil  re  pounds  <fc  for  the  said  twelve  acres  and  an 


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halfc  of  upland  wooddy  ground  unfenccd  twenty  shillings  at 
two  tonnes  in  the  yeare  that  is  to  say  the  twenty  fifth  day  of 
March  and  the  twenty  nyncth  day  of  September  by  equall  por- 
cons  to  be  payd  Provided  allwaycs  that  whensoever  the  said 
William  Cheney  his  heircs  or  assigns  shall  pay  unto  the  said 
Walter  Blackbourne  his  heircs  &  assignes  the  sumine  of  twenty 
foure  pounds  for  the  said  eight  acres  of  salt  marsh  then  the 
said  rent  thereof  shall  cease  &  the  said  William  Cheney  his 
heircs  &  assignes  shall  have  the  same  to  him  &  them  his  & 
their  heircs  &  assignes  in  absolute  ffec  simple  for  ever  and 
whensoever  the  said  William  Cheney  his  heircs  or  assigncs 
shall  pay  unto  the  said  Walter  Blackborne  his  hcires  or  as 
signes  twenty  pounds  for  the  said  five  acres  of  upland  plowed 
<fe  broken  up  &  fenced  then  the  said  rent  thereof  shall  cease 
&  the  said  William  Cheney  his  heircs  &  assigncs  shall  have  the 
same  to  him  &  them  his  &  their  heircs  &  assignes  in  absolute 
fee  simple  for  ever  and  whensoever  the  said  William  Cheney 
his  heircs  or  assignes  shall  pay  unto  the  said  Walter  Black- 
borne  his  heircs  or  assigncs  twelve  pounds  &  ten  shillings  for 
the  said  twelve  acres  &  halfc  of  upland  wooddy  grounds  un- 
fenced  then  the  said  rent  thereof  shall  cease  <fc  the  said  William 
Cheney  his  hcires  &  assigncs  Shall  have  the  same  to  him  & 
them  his  ct  their  hcires  <fc  assignes  in  absolute  fee  simple  for 
ever.  In  witnesse  &c.  ult  7.  1039.  [3s.  0.] 

Articles  of  agreement  indented  made  the  last  day  of 
September  anno  RRS.  Carol!  mine  Anglii  <tc.  Annocp  Dili 
1039.  Betwccnc  Walter  Blackborne  late  of  Roxberry  in  New 
England  planter  of  the  one  partc  &  Willm  Cheney  of  Rox- 
berry  aforesaid  planter  of  the  other  partc  as  followcth. 

1.  Imprimist  he  said  Walter  Blackbourne  agrecth  &  puttes 
six  Cowes  to  keeping  unto  the  said  William  Cheney  from  the 
day  of  the  date  hereof  for  three  ycares  fully  to  he  complcat*& 
ended. 

2.  Item  the  said  Willm  Cheney  ngrecth  &  undertakcth  well 
<fc  carefully  to  kecpe  &  looke  to  the  said  Cowes  &  their  living 
increase  and  to  fynd   &  provide  sufficient  hay  fodder  &  all 
ncccssarys  for  them  during  the  said  tcrmc. 


206  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[129]  3.  Item  it  is  agreed  bctwccne  the  said  party s  that  once 
a  yearc  during  the  said  tcrmc  the  living  increase  of  the  said 
cowcs  shall  be  equally  divided  to  &  bctwecnc  the  said  partycs. 

4.  Item  that  if  during  the  said  termc  any  of  the  said  co\ves 
dye  the  said  partycs  shall  equally  bcarc  the  losse  thereof  & 
also  equally  repaire  such  lossc  by  making  up  the  said  number 
of  six  cowes  forthwith  upon  such  Death. 

5.  Item  the  said  Walter  Blackbornc  agrccth  &  promiseth  to 
pay  halfe  the  Country  rates  but  not  any  of  the  towne  rates 
wherewthall  the  said  Cowes  shall  be  charged  during  the  said 
termc. 

6.  Item  the  said  William  Cheney  agree! h  &  promiseth  to  re- 
deliver  the  said  six  cowcs  or  others  in  their  roome  from  time 
to  time  to  he  rcpayred  <fe  made  up  as  aforesd  if  any  of  them 
dye  at  the  end  of  the  said  termc  together  wth  halfe  the  living 
increase  of  them  unto  the  said  Walter  Blackbournc  his  execu 
tors  administrators  or  assignes.     In  witnesse  tvc.     [2.  o'.] 

Michael  Williamson1  £  Anne  his  wife  make  a  letter  of 
deputation  Sc  procuratorship  to  Anthony  Stapley  of  Patcham 
in  Sussex  Es<jr  to  rec  of  Elizabeth  Gecrc  of  Lewis  in  Sussex 
widdowc  Executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  Dennis 
Geerc  late  of  Saugost  deceased  501  legacy  given  by  him  to  the 
said  A  line  by  the  name  of  Anne  Panckhurst.  Dated  2.  8.  1080 

Coram  Tho :  Savage  &  mcipr> wth  the  Certificate  of  their 

marriage  by  the  Govr  under  the  Common  scale.  [Is.  8cZ.] 

And  their  release  to  the  said  Executrix  for  the  same. 
[M.] 

A  letter  to  Mr.is  Gcere.  And  a  release  conditionall  to  M^ 
Stapley.  [GJ.] 

Robert  ITardiug2  of  Boston  mercer  conveys  one  acre  & 
lialfe  of  upland  &•  one  acre  &  halfe  of  marsh  ground  lying  in 
Hogg  Island  wch  were  assigned  to  him  by  the  Townesinen  of 

1   "  Michael    Williamson,"   snys    Sav-  three  or  four  yours  after  he  is  heard  of 

a^'e,    "Ipswich,  cniiic  in  the   'Planter'  in  ftliodw  Island."     See  ^>n.<tf,  j>.  171 
early  in  1  ():>."»,  a^ed  thirty,  as  OIK;  of  the  2  Robert   Harding  moved  soon  after 

servants   of    (Icoip;    fliiMin^s  ;    and    I  this  to  Rhode  Island  (Savuge). 
would  ghully  learn  more  of  him,  for  in 


LECH  FORD'S   MAX  US  CHI  FT  NOTE-BOOK.  207 

Boston,  and  one  acre  of  upland  and  three  quarters  of  an  acre 
of  mnrsli  wch  \vas  the  lott  of  Barnabas  Derriford1  and  one 
aere  of  upland  and  three  qrtrs  of  an  acre  of  marsh  wch  was  tlie 
lott  of  Jolm  Pcnibcrton  to  Srgcant  The  :  Savage  &  his  heires 
for  4t  10*.  [Is.] 

Me  Will  Cheney  de  Roxbcrry  in  Nova  Anjrlia  plantatorc 
tenor'  cVc  WaKero  Ulnckhorne  in  r>(il  10s.  daf  nit  7.  HJ'W. 
Cora  in. 

Conditioned  io  pay  the  rent  according  to  the  aforesaid 
Indenture.  [Is.] 

A  mortirn^e  of  the  first  lands  wth  the  Dwelling  house  by  Wil 
liam  Cheney  to  Walter  blackborne  wth  proviso  to  redeliver  the 
(J  eowes  w(h  their  living  increase  at  the  3  ycares  end  according 
to  the  said  Articles  it  to  ful.'lill  the  articles  <vc. 

A  letter  for  M!  John  Jolmson2  to  M?  Willm  Pincheon  of 
Aggawam  upon  the  river  of  Ivonnccticot. 


Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  we  Yovawan  Sachem 
of  Pommanocc  and  Aswaw  Sachem  his  wife  ffor  ten  Coates 
of  trading  (Heath  to  ns  before  the  making  hereof  payd  and 
delivered  [130]  by  Lion  (Jardiner'1  (1onimander  of  the  forte 

1  The   spelling  of   tins  name   seems  oarlymemberof  the  Company;  and  being 
clearly  Dcrriford.     I  think  however  tluvt  already  nn  assistant,  came  over  in  the 
the  man  must  be  F>arnaby  Dorryfalls,  or  ileet  with  Winthmp  lf>:>().    He  settled  in 
Derrifall,  who  had  a  lot  in  Boston  which  Foxbury,   but  in  1  (>:.>(>  removed  to  tli'j 
is  several  times  alluded  to  in  tin;  records.  Connecticut    IJiver,    where    he.    founded 
He  was  a  servant  of  Coddington,  came  the  town  of  Springfield.     He  got  into  re- 
over  in    1033,   and   lived  at    Braintree.  ligious  controversy  with  the  authorities, 
His  name  is  l.'jjth  on  the  list  of  mem-  however,  in  the  yar  ICfil,  ;ui'l  returned 
hereof  the  First  Church.  to   Kn-land,  where  he  died   HJiJ-J.     His 

2  Which  John  Johnson  of  the  seven-  fnmilv  remained  in  New  England. 

teen  mentioned  in  Savage  this  may  be,  3  Lion   (Jardiner  was   commander   of 

I   cannot  tell,   but  suppose  him   to  be  the  fort  at  Saybrook  from  the  year  lf>35 

Mr.  John  Jolmson  of  Roxbuiy,  from  the  till  he  moved  to  Long  Island,  where  lie 

title   of  respect   applied   to   him.       Mr.  lived    until    his    death    in    K>r>3.       The 

William  Pincheon  (or  Pvnchon,  as  the  island  here  spoken  of  \vas  called  bvhim 

name  is  more  commonly  spelled),  how-  the  Isle  of  Wight,  but  has   since   been 

ever,   was  widely   known.      lie   was  an  called  by  his  name.     For  his  views  on 


208  LECIIFOUD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

called  Saybrook  ffort  als  Pashpeshauks  at  the  mouth  of  the 
river  of  Kennecticot  doe  hereby  for  us  and  our  heires  &  Suc 
cessors  grant  bargaine  &  sell  unto  the  said  Lion  Gardiner  all 
that  our  Island  called  Manchonat  wth  the  appurtenances,  and 
all  our  right  title  <fc  demand  of  in  &  to  the  same  To  have  and 
to  hold  the  said  Island  wth  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said 
Lion  Gardiner  his  heires  &  assigncs  for  ever.  In  witncsse 
whereof  we  have  hereto  sett  our  hands  &  scales  the  third 
day  of  the  moneth  called  by  the  English  May  in  the  yearc  by 
them  of  their  Lord  written  One  thousand  six  hundred  thirty 
and  nync  1G39.  [2.  6.] 

Thomas  Barker  John  Johnson  Francis  Lambert  and  John 
Punderson  J  &  William  Chcsebrough  sell  the  house  dwelling 
house  and  lott  conteyning  neare  an  acre  lying  in  Boston  next 
adjoyning  to  M.r  Cotton's  lotfc  to  Srgeant  Thomas  Savage  of 
Boston  &  his  heires  dat'  7.  8.  1G39.  [Is.] 

Me  Samuel  Hagborne2  tener'  Walter  Blackborne  in  601 
condiconed  for  payment  of  301  31  15s.  half  yearly.  [Is.] 

Comfort  Starre3  of  Duxbury  in  New  England  Chirurgian 
makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Edward  Michelson  of  Cambridge 

the  Pequot  war,  throughout  which  he  Mason  had  destroyed  the  Pequot  fort, 

held  Saybrook   Fort,  see   his  llelation,  Starr  removed  from  Duxbury  to  Boston 

3  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  iii.  131.  some  years  after  this  (1643),  and  died 

1  Tlie  first  four  men  may  be  supposed  Jan.    2,    1GGO.      Edward   Miehelson   is 
to  have  been  the  four  Yorkshire  men  three  times  mentioned  in  Leehford ;  but 
spoken  of  in  the  first  entry  of  the  Note-  otherwise  I  find  little  of  him.     Ho  was 
book.     Mr.  Cotton's  lot  was  on  Tremont  marshal  of   the    colony ;  and   there  is 
Street,    near    Scollay    Square,    running  notice,    of   his    having   been    appointed 
back  into  what  is  now  Pemberton  Square  marshal   of  the  court,  together  with  a 
(Book  of  Possession*,  111,  II,  13).  statement  of  his  fees  (Mass.   Col.  Eec., 

2  Samuel  Hagborne  of  lloxbury  may  i.  217),  as  well  as  mention  of  him   as 
be  found  in  Savage.  marshal  two  or  three  times,  in  the  first 

8  Comfort    Starr,  of  Duxbury,   came  book   of    Suff.  Deeds.     He   was  not  a 

to    New    England    in    1635.      He   was  freeman.     John  Jones,  of  Concord,  can 

chosen    surgeon,    in    1G37,   to  go   with  hardly  be  the  minister  of  that  name, 

the  troops  under  Captain  Patrick  to  the  nor  yet  his  son  ;  but  I  know  no  other 

Pequot  war.      The   party    reached   the  of  that  name  there, 
scene  of  war  just  after   Underbill  and 


LECHFOllD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


gent  to  receive  of  John  Jones  of  Concord  brickmaker  r>/).<?.  tlic 
remainder  of  41  owing  to  him  d;iT  12.  8.  1039. 


Thomas  Nicholls  of  Jlingham1  planter  l)ound  to  John 
Cockercll  mcrcatori  in  GQ1  dat'  15.  8.  1G39.  If  30*  be  pa,yd  by 
the  brother  of  the  said  Thomas  who  was  Executor  of  the  last 
will  of  Walter  Nichols  of  Coggeshall  in  Essex  clothier  de 
ceased  upon  the  first  day  of  Aprill  to  John  Cockercll  or  his 
ass*  [Is.] 

Mr  John  Stratton  of  Salem  gent  conveys  all  his  interest  in 
lands  whatsoever  at  Cape  Porpicc2  to  Richard  Saltonstall 
Esqr  &  Hugh  Peters  Pastor  of  8alem  &  their  hcires  the  rest 
that  is  not  sold  Matthew  Cradockc  mercator  pro  101  [1,9.] 

Roger  Conant3  of  Salem  in  New  England  planter  makes  a 
letter  of  Attorney  to  Mf  Thomas  Wcston  merchant  to  receive 


1  Of  Thomas  Nicbolls,  of  Hinglmm, 
it  is  stntcd  that  he  married  a  wife  and 
moved  to  Scituute,  but  shortly  returned. 
Besides  this  I  know  nothing  more  of 
the  various  parties  to  this  agreement, 
whatever  may  he  inferred  from  p.  180 
pnsf.  The  name  of  William  Cockercll 
occurs  diifc,  p.  50. 

a  Cape  Porpice  (Lech ford's  method  of 
spelling  Porpoise)  is  in  York  County  in 
Maine,  and  now  forms  the  northeast 
boundary  of  Kenncbunk  Harbor.  Hugh 
Peter,  in  spite  of  the  faet  of  his  being 
a  minister  of  the  Gospel,  seems  to  have 
been  something  of  a  man  of  business  as 
well.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  Colonial 
Records  as  being  requested  to  import 
saltpetre  from  Holland  ;  also  as  present 
ing  a  schedule  of  Robert  Saltonstall's 
properly  to  satisfy  his  creditors.  Rich- 
ard  Saltonxtall's  affairs,  however,  did 
not,  as  a  rule,  terminate  successfully  ; 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  this  was  an 
exception  to  the  rule.  Hugh  Peter 
went  back  to  England  shortly  after  this 
in  the  same  ship  with  Leehford  himself. 
Matthew  Cradock,  although  he  never 


came  to  New  England,  had  frequent 
grants  of  land  there  from  the  General 
Court,  and  evidently  had  many  business 
enterprises  there. 

For  convenience,  I  append  here  a  few 
dates  and  facts.  Richard  Saltonstall, 
son  of  Sir  Richard,  was  brought  by  his 
father  in  1630.  He  had  been  a  member  of 
Emmanuel  College,  University  of  Cam 
bridge.  Shortly  after  arriving  he  went 
home  to  England,  and  did  not  come  to 
New  England  again  until  1635,  when 
he  brought  his  newly  married  wife  and 
a  daughter.  He  was  representative  in 
1636  and  1637  ;  assistant  in  1637  ; 
returned  to  England  again,  1649;  was  in 
Massachusetts  for  a  few  years,  1680; 
died  in  England  1094. 

Cradock,  a  wealthy  London  merchant, 
was  governor  of  the  Massachusetts  Com 
pany  before  the  election  of  John  Win- 
tin  op.  He  never  came  to  New  England, 
but  was  of  great  help  to  the  colony. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Long  Parlia 
ment.  He  died  May  27,  1641. 

8  Roger  Conant,  born  1592,  came  to 
New  England  in  1623,  and  had  lived  at 


H 


210  LEG II FORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

of  Captaine  [  Mank]  Fleet  Tl  14s.  by  bill  owing  to  him  seven 
yeares  1(5.  8.  1039.     [Gtf.] 

Me  Johcm  Ifuinfrey  ar  toner'  ttc  Daniel  Butler  do  London 
haherdashcr  in  2001  dat'  17.  8.  K539  Condiconed  Tor  the  pay 
ment  of  1001  Febr  px.  [!».] 

Richard  Gridley  tunics  over  Willm  Borcman  to  Willm 
Towncsend l  of  Boston  in  N  E  thatcher  for  6  yeares  from 
29.  7  last  past  to  be  Apprentice  of  the  craftc  of  a  thatcher  by 
Indenture  dated  17.  8.  1G39.  [2.] 

Me  Martin  Stibbcns2  do  Roxbury  gardiner  tener'  &c  Walter 
Blackbornc  in  221  dat' 

Conditioned  to  pay  lll  in  three  yeares  halfe  yearely  30s.  Sd. 
at  a  payment  at  Ml"  Blackbornes  house  in  Boston.  1st  pay 
ment  1°  Maii  px.  [Is.] 

[131]  Articles  of  agreement  made  the  30th day  of  the  seventh 
moneth  Anno  Dmi  1G39  Betweenc  Thomas  Hawkins  of  Dor 
chester  in  New  England  shipwright  of  the  one  parte  and  Willm 

Plymouth  first,  and  then  at  many  other  liuivman,  may  imagine  his  journey  to 

places    before    settling   at   Salem.      He  his  new  master  whenever  tlu-y  walk  up 

was   appointed    governor   of   the   Dor-  Summer  Street.     As  for  Townseml,  lie 

Chester  plantation,  which  was  projected  was   one   of   those   respectable   persons 

in  1625.     He  was  .several  times  deputy,  who,  because  they  do  not  figure  promi- 

was  assistant   at   the   court   at   Salem,  nently  in  town  records  and  such  like, 

and  so  forth.     He  died  1079.     Thomas  either  as  notables  or  criminals,  are  for- 

"Weston  was  now   a   merchant  of  Lon-  gotten  by  posterity.     He  was  a  worthy 

don,  and  had  been  in  the  country  only  man,  I  should  judge,  even  though  he  was 

once,  —  for  a  year  or  two,  about  1623,  forced  to  deliver  up  his  arms  to  Captain 

at   Wcymouth,    where    he   had   under-  Robert    Keayne,  with   fifty-seven   other 

taken    to    plant   a   colony,    which   was  citizens   who,    like   himself,    had    been 

unsuccessful.  seduced  and   led   into  dangerous   errors 

1  William  Townseml  lived  on  "Wash-  by   our  friends    Mr.    Wheelwright   and 

ington   Street  a  little  north  of  Winter  Mistress  Anne  Hutchinson. 

(Book    of    Possessions,   p.    81,    F,    72).  2  Martin    Stebbins   was  a   brewer   of 

(Jridley  himself  lived  on  the  north  side  Roxbury.     lie  subsequently  moved  into 

of  Summer  Street,  by  the  water,  not  far  Boston,  where  he  continued.     The  Bus- 

from  what  is  now  Federal  Street.     Any  ton   Town  llccords  have   notice  of  him 

readers,    therefore,    who   are    interested  several  times,  but  never,  save  once,  in 

in  the   somewhat   pathetic   wanderings  regard  to  anything  except  beer, 
of  this  Jack-of-all-trades  of  a  William 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  211 

Robinson  l  of  the   same   husbandman   of  the  oilier  parto.  As 
followcth. 

1.  Imprimis  the  said  Thomas  doth  agree  &  hereby  let  unto 
the  said  William  all  that  parte  &  portion  of  land  sometime  in 
ihe  occupation  of  Roger  Ludlowc2  gent  lying  wthin  the  bounds 
of  Dorchester  aforesaid  conteyning  ncarc  100  acres  of  upland 
&  ni(Mlo\ve  wth  the  neck  of  land  called  Squcnton  on  the  east  & 
certainc  marsh  on  the  west   and   one  house   ncarely  erected 
thereupon  but  not  finished  wch  the  said  Thomas  Hawkins  shall 
&  will  cause  a  stackc  of  brick  chimneys  to  be  erected  &  the 
floares  both  aloft  &  below  to  be  layd  all  but  in  one  roome  there 
of  in  convenient  time,  together  wtb  eight  Cowcs  two  sowes 
sixty  eight  goatcs  foure  oxen  and  one  bull  wth  one  plough  one 
cart  one   paire  of  wheeler  and  one  pairc  of  harrowes  \vlh  one 
cliaino  l)o\vc  &  yokes  upon  the  said  lands  to  be  kept  used  & 
imploycd   from   the   making  hereof   for  &  during   the   space 
of  seven   ycares  from  thenceforth  next  ensuing  fully  to  be 
com  pleat  e  <t  ended. 

2.  Item  that  the  said  Thomas  shall  sell  the  said  William  cart 
wheelos  £  the  said  Wni  shall  pay  the  said  Thomas  for  thorn  at 
the  second  harvest  after  the  date  hereof. 

8.  Item  the  said  William  Robinson  doth  agree  undertake  & 
receive  the  said  premises  accordingly  and  in  considiration 
thereof  Doth  promise  &  Covenant  wth  the  said  Thomas  that 
he  will  at  his  cost  <t  charges  thatch  the  said  house  and  all 
other  housing  that  the  said  Thomas  shall  have  occasion  to  build 
upon  the  premises  at  any  time  during  the  said  tcrme. 

4.  That  lie  the  said  William  shall  &  will  in  manner  «fc  forme 
following  pay  &  deliver  unto  the  said  Thomas  Hawkins  the 
one  halfe  of  the  increase  of  the  said  Cattle  tt  swine  and  halfe 

1  William  Robinson,  of  Dorchester,  same  year,   and  settled   in  Dorchester. 

is  continually  mentioned  in  the  records  Jit;    was    in     1034    made    deputy -gov- 

of   that   town,    where    he   was    a   well-  ernor,  and  in  10o5  removed  to  Windsor, 

known  citizen.     He  came  over  in  1G36,  Conn.,  and  thence  (1<J3!>)   to   Fail-field, 

and  was  admitted  freeman  1642.  Went  off  to  Virginia,   16f>4,  "'under  a 

2  The  place  and  time  of  the  birth  and  maledict."  says  Savage,  "for  carrying 

death   of  Koger   Lmllow  are   unknown,  away  the   town  ree.,  \vh.  was  a,  charge 

lie  was  chosen  assistant,  Feb.  10,  l(i.°,0;  long  aft.    rcfut.    l>y    find,   the    vol.   in 

came  to  New   England  in   May  of  the  town." 


'21'2  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCH1PT  NOTE-BOOK. 

of  the  butter  cheese  <t  milke  of  (horn  and  Imlfe  such  corne  as 
by  the  best  endcvours  of  the  said  Wilhn  <fc  his  servants  wth 
the  blessing  of  God  upon  the  same  shall  ycarcly  growe  &  renewe 
upon  the  premises  during  the  said  ierme  and  that  the  said 
William  shall  &  will  every  yeare  plant  &  plough  12  acres  of 
all  sorts  of  grainc  more  than  other  at  the  least. 

5.  Item  that  the  living  increase  of  the  said  stockc  except 
swine  shall  be  equally  divided  betweene  the  said  parties  at  the 
end  of  three  yearcs  next  after  the  date  hereof  and  againc  at  the 
end  of  the  said  tcrme  or  sooner  if  the  said  lands  shall  bo  found 
uncapable  of  bearing  <k  susteyning  the  number  of  cattle  wth 
their  increase  aforesaid. 

(>.  Item  that  if  any  beast  of  the  said  stocke  hereby  demised 
shall  happen  to  dye  during  the  said  tonne  the  said  Wilhn  shall 
&  will  bcare  the  losse  &  expense  upon  such  death  at  his  eoste 
make  good  the  first  number  of  the  said  stocke'from  time  to 
time  A;  in  the  end  of  the  said  tonne  redeliver  the  same  stocke 
or  other  cattel  as  good  in  their  roome  unto  the  said  Thomas 
his  executors  &  assignes  together  wtb  the  said  increase  thereof 
as  aforesaid. 

7.  Item  the  said  Thomas  shall  allow  the  said  Wm  a  boat  for 
his  necessary  occasions  from  time  to  time  during  the  said  termc 
the  said  Wm  repayring  &  taking  charge  of  the  said  boat  &,  to 
provide  a  new  one  in  case  the  said  boat  shall  be  split  or  cast 
away  in  his  service.     And  in  lieu  of  the  said  boat  the  said  Win 
shall  allow  the  said  Thomas  the  use  of  the  said  oxen  &  cart 
one  moneth  betweene  hay  harvest  &  corne  harvest  every  ycarc 
during  the  said  termc  to  fetch  home  his  firewood  &  the  said 
Wm  to  grcant  the  said  cart  &  be  payd  for  his  worke  according 
to  the  rate  of  ordinary  wages  for  the  time  being. 

8.  Item  that  if  any  boast  or  beasts  of  the  said  stockc  dye 
the  first  throe  retires  then   the  said  Thomas  shall  lay  downe 
money  to  ivpaire  the  said  stocke  and    the  said  Willm  shall 
recompense  the  said  Thomas  Avth  one  yeares  increase  wholly 
to  himself  according  to  the  time  that  the  said  money  shall 
be  forborne. 

0.  Item  the  said  parties  shall  &  may  agree  <fc  consult  to 
gether  from  time  to  time  during  the  said  termc  about  the 


LECHEORD'S   JMAVASCfl/P7T  NOTE-BOOK.  213 

altering  any  of  the  cowes  of  the  said  stocke  &  taking  in  any 
of  the  increase  or  other  beast  fur  stock. 

10.  Item  that  the  said  Thomas  shall  or  mav  take  his  parte 
of  the  increase  of  the  swine  at  his  pleasure  and  the  butter 
cheese  £  milkc  to  be  divided  as  the  said  Thomas  shall  call 
for  it. 

[132]  11.  Item  that  the  said  William  shall  &  will  within  the 
first  yearc  of  the  said  ternie  ditch  so  much  of  the  said  lands 
as  may  fence  the  same  from  all  cattell  tfc  swine  and  within  the 
first  three  yearcs  of  the  said  tcrme  shall  &  will  ditch  the  said 
lands  round  wlh  a  sufficient  ditch  and  crusse  fence  the  same 
from  ditch  to  ditch  wth  postcs  &  rayles. 

12.  Item  that  the   said    Willm  shall  &   will  well   &  suffi 
ciently  repairc  scourc  &  dense  <fc  maintaine  the  said  house  <fc 
all  other  housings  to  be  built  on  the  premises  cvj  the  said  ditches 
<fc  fences  wth  all  need  full  <fc  necessary  reparations  clensings  & 
scourings  when   &  as  often  as  need  shall  require  during  the 
said  tcrme  and  the  same  so  well  &  sufficiently  repaired  scoured 
<t  mainteyncd  in  the  end  of  the  said  tcrme  shall  £  will  sur 
render  &  yield  up  unto  the  said  Thomas  bin  heircs  executors 
tt  ns.signes  together  wth  the  said  plough  (Jartwheeles  haiTowcs 
ch:ii ne  bowes  &  yoakes  in  so  good  case  &  coiidicoii  as  he  received 
them  necessary  use  execptcd  in  meane  while  if  any  of  the  said 
ntensills  of  husbandry  faile  or  be  broken  or  lost  the  said  Wm 
is  to  buy  new. 

13.  Hem  that  if  the  said  Win  shall  dye  within  the  said  terme 
then  his  wife  or  executors  shall  surrender  the  said  farme  & 
stocke  unto  the  said  Thomas  upon  such  termes  as  two  or  three 
indifferent  men  by  them  to  be  chosen  shall  determine  wlb  ref 
erence  to  former  respects  £  future  hopes. 

14.  Item  that  if  any  difference  or  other  considerable  matter 
concerning  the  premises  shall  hereafter  fall  out  between  the 
said  partycs  yet  unknown  to  them  the  same  shall  be  ordered 
by  3  arbitrators   indiferently    to  be  chosen    by  A-   between   tin; 
said  partycs. 

15.  Item  that  the  said  Willm  shall  A'  will  this  first  yearc 
fence  in  a  large  garden  plott  upon  the  premises  ncarc  the  said 
house  &•  shall  from  yeare  to  ycare  during  the  said  tcrme  plant 


214  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

it  wth  usuall  garden  fruits  tlicrcof  allowc  £  deliver  yearcly  to 
the  said  Thomas  one  lialfe  except  such  soiiier  fruits  as  the 
said  Willm  sliall  spend  &  use  in  his  house. 

16.  Item  that  the  said  Thomas  &  Willm  shall  &  will  equally 
pay  &  discharge  from  time  to  time  all  rates  that  shall  be  im 
posed  on  the  said  house  lands  &  stoekc  during  the  said  terme 
out  of  the  increase  of  the  said  Cattel  <fc  proffitts  of  the  said 
lands. 

17.  Item  that  the  said  Thomas  shall  lend  the  said  Willm 
tcnn  pounds  and  twenty  five  bushells  of  Indian  conic  who  shall 
repay  the  same  at  the  next  harvest  according  to  the  rates  of 
corne  then  &  now  differing. 

Mr  Thomam  Martin1  de  villa  Caroli  in  Nova  Anglia  planta- 
tor  to  be  bound  by  bill  to  Solomon  Saffery  in  301  to  be  payd 
1.  1°  next. 


THOMAS  WmiERLE2  mariner  pit  31  Oct  1639. 
EDWARD  II  BALE  3  deft. 

The   pit  compluineth   against  Defendt  for  that  whereas  the 
I)efendt  did  upon  the  26tb  day  of  May  last  past  reteyne  the  pit 

1  Thomas    Martin    moved    to    Cam-  post,  where  he  is  called  of  Southwark, 
bridge,  and  thence  may  have  moved  to  Co.  Surrey. 

New  London.     Solomon  Saflery  is  said  8  The  name  of  Edward  Ileale  occurs 

by  Savage,  on  Hutchinson's  authority,  several  times  in  the  Note-book,  sometimes 

to  have  been  a  mathematician,  who  as-  being  spelled  Hele,  and  sometimes  Heale. 

sisted  Nathaniel  Woodward  to  run  the  Savage  calls  it  Healey,  or  Hale)',  some- 

south  line  of  the  Colony.    He  is  nowhere  times  Hale,   Hele,  or  Heale,   the  same 

else  mentioned  that  I  know  of.  name.      Nevertheless,   there   is  no  Ed- 

2  Thomas    Witherle.      I    think    this  ward    among    them    all.       From    the 
name  is   Witherly,    as  it   is  so  spelled  mention   of  Edward   Hele,   of  Bristol, 
later  in  the  Note-book.     Thomas  With-  later  in  the  Note-book,  I  am  led  to  think 
erly  was  fined  for  contempt  (Mass.  Col.  that    if    the    two    names    (llc;de    and 
Jlcc.,  i.  261)  ;  but  the  name  is  not  to  be  Hele)   refer   to   the   same   person,    this 
found  in  Savage,  who  gives  Wetherell,  person  was  an   English  merchant  who 
which  he  says  is  the  same  as  Witherly,  never  remained  in  the  country  for  any 
but    no    Thomas.     Or  is  this    Thomas  length  of  time,  if,  indeed,  he  was  ever 
Witherly  a  Connecticut  man,  as  appears  there.     It  is  very  possible  that  lie  may 
later  (p.  189  post),  to  whom  that  roll-  have  had  a  correspondent  in  Virginia, 
ing  stone,  William  Boreman,  is  finally  and  may  have  passed  some  time  in  that 
intrusted  (p.  142  post)1*     See  also  p.  158  part  of  the  country. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  215 

to  bo  his  servant  in  the  place  of  master  of  the  barkc  patience 
now  riding  in  the  harbor  of  Boston  to  sayle  to  <fc  fro  upon  the 
seas  in  the  occasions  of  the  defend4  for  the  wages  of  41  by  the 
rnoneth  ever  since  wch  time  the  pit  accordingly  served  the  said 
defend1  in  the  said  barkc  in  severall  voyages  whereof  the  last 
was  from  Virginia  to  Boston  aforesaid  where  the  said  barkc 
arrived  the  20th  of  September  last  so  that  there  is  due 
to  pit  for  his  wages  aforesd  sixteene  pounds  for  foure  full 
uioneths  wanting  but  one  day  or  two  at  most  till  that  time. 
Also  since  the  said  twentieth  of  September  the  pit  being  im- 
payd  his  wages  aforesaid  whereby  he  is  not  discharged  from 
the  said  barkc  but  kept  from  returning  to  Virginia  about  his 
occasions  where  he  hath  divers  debts  owing  to  him  &  being 
not  there  to  demand  them  while  tobacco  is  in  mens  hands 
there  he  may  be  in  danger  to  loose  his  said  debts  thereby  And 
the  pit  further  saith  that  by  the  law  he  ought  to  have  wages 
&  dyet  from  the  said  defcndt  till  he  be  payd  off  all  wages  but 
the  said  defend*  hath  both  refused  to  pay  the  pit  his  wages 
and  to  allow  him  diet  since  the  said  20tb  of  Sept  wch  hath  to 
this  day  cost  the  pit  5*  besides  5l  and  5s.  due  [133]  for  wages 
of  one  moneth  &  ten  daycs  since  the  said  20th  of  September 
till  this  present  day  so  that  there  is  due  to  the  pit  for  wages  & 
dyet  as  aforesaid  26*  5s.  besides  his  dammages  aforesaid  To 
the  Dammage  of  the  pit  301  and  thereupon  he  brings  his  suit. 
[Is.  Grf.] 

LEONARD  BUTTERS  l  Defendt. 
ISRAEL  STOUGHTON  ESQ' joft. 

The  Defend*  saith  that  the  reason  why  he  hath  not  finished 
the  pits  worke  is  because  that  John  Peirce  mason  the  Defend- 
cnts  Journeyman  was  pressed  from  this  Defend*  for  the  Coun- 
tryes  service  about  the  Castle  &  the  defend1  could  not  get 
another  workman  but  hath  ben  ever  since  about  other  worke 

1  Leonard  Butters,   or  Buttolph,  was  relative.     Tn  regard  to  the  work  about 

the  bric.klayer,  mason,  and  lime-burner  the  castle,   I  quote  from   the   Colonial 

already  spoken  of.     As  to  John  Pierce,  Records  of  the  date  June  6,  1639,  vol.  i. 

he  may  be  the  bricklayer  of  that  name  p.  260  :  — 
of  Boston  (1670),  or  his  father,  or  some 


21G 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


wch  was  in  hand  before  the  pits  saving  for  foure  daycs  <fc  now 
the  defeudt  is  ready  to  enter  upon  the  pits  worke  if  that  he 
please  &  for  those  foure  daves  he  referreth  himselfe  to  the 

[Is.] 


iudgmcnt  of  the  Court. 


Ruli'c  Scott  at  Edward  Ileale   in  an  accon   of    the  case. 


Jonathan  Wcymouth1  against  the  same  in  an  accon  of  the 


case. 


Coppy  of  an  account  for  Mr  Nicholas  Tcrise  &  Mr  Joshua 
Ilewes.  [2s.] 

David  Sellecke2  of  Dorchester  soap  boyler  bound  unto 
John  Kakcr  of  Ipswich  grocer  in  G1  to  be  payd  1  Mail  at  the 
house  of  Francis  Hudson  in  Boston,  dat'  2  No  :  1G39. 


"  It  was  ordered  that  a  levy  of  10001 
be  raised  i'ourth\vth.  ...  Of  this  10001 
there  is  250*  appointed  and  alo\ved  to 
build  a  house,  £  repair  the  batteries 
at  Castle  Island.  The  Governor  [\Viu- 
throp],  tlic  Deputie  Governo1"  [Dudley], 
&  Mr.  Israeli  Stoughtou  are  appointed 
to  agree  with  dipt.  Gibons,  how  to  be 
stow  this  250,  £  what  men  to  keep  at 
the  fort  for  the  100*  p  (w,  after  it  is  re 
paired. " 

1  Neither   Ralfe  Scott   nor   Jonathan 
Wcymouth  is  to  be  found  in  Savage. 

2  David  Sellecke,  .soap-boiler,  is  twice 
mentioned   in  an  unimportant  manner 
in  the  Dorchester  Town  Records.     He  is 
called   of  Boston   by   Savage,   who   says 
he  died  in  Virginia  in  105  t.      Savage  is 
somewhat  confused   in    his   account   of 
the  various  John  Bakers  ;  but  he  must 
be  right  when  he  says  that  "one  was 
of  Ipswich,  perhaps  lie  who  was  born  at 
Norwich,  County  of  Norfolk,  a  grocer, 
tbat  came  in  1637,  aged  thirty-nine,  to 
Boston  in  the  '  Hose  of  Yarmouth,'  with 
Elizabeth,  his  wife,"  etc.     Francis  Hud 


son,  the  fisherman  and  ferryman,  was 
said  to  be  one  of  the  first  to  set  foot  on 
the  peninsula  of  Boston.  I  am  not  cer 
tain  as  to  the  position  of  his  house  here 
referred  to.  He  had  leave  (Feb.  28, 
1052)  "to  wharfe  Befor  his  own  ground 
near  the  Ferry  at  Charlestown."  But 
in  the  Book  of  Possessions  his  house  is 
put  down  somewhere  near  Gallup's 
Point  (on  Hanover  Street).  There  is 
a  difference  between  the  dates  of  these 
two  entries  of  seven  or  eight  years,  so 
it  is  possible  that  the  latter  is  here 
referred  to.  But  Hudson's  mime  is 
always  connected  with  the  other  .side  of 
the  peninsula,  —  that  opposite  Charles- 
town.  Hudson's  Point,  named  from 
him,  is  at  the  foot  of  Copp's  Hill;  and 
it  was  on  this  side  of  the  town  that  the 
ferries  from  Charlestown  and  Wiimisim- 
rnet  reached  Boston  ;  and  it  was  here,  I 
should  think,  that  Hudson's  house  was 
likely  to  be.  He  had  lease  of  the  ferry 
toward  the  end  of  his  life,  and  died 
Nov.  3,  1700. 


LECUFOllD'S   MAXi'SCJUPT  NOTE-BOOK.  217 

And  a  release  of  executions  &c.  by  John  Baker  to  David 
Scllcckc  Dut'  1  No.  1089.  [lit/.] 

William  Brackcnbcrry l  of  Charlestowne  in  N  E  Plan 
ter  sells  for  391  10.?.  unto  Edward  Wood  Baker  one  dwelling 
house  lyinpj  in  Charlestowne  aforesaid  bctwccne  the  lands  of 
Joseph  Hill  on  ihe  souih  tt  the  lands  lale  Mr.is  Ili^iusons  on 
the  north  wth  a  forcyard  already  palled  out  and  the  1ml fo  of 
one  garden  thereunto  bc'lon^ing  that  is  to  say  the  south  hall'e 
to  he  equally  divided  in  the  iniddst  &  impallcd  at  equall  costs 
in  convenient  time  and  all  outhouses  &  appurtenances  thereto 
belonging.  Provided  that  the  said  Brackenherry  shall  have 
liberty  to  brinu  his  cattell  to  <fc  from  his  ownc  yard  Doorc 

J  O  *> 

through  the  foresaid  foreyard  iindinu:  stuffe  for  the  setting  up 
of  the  fore  dore  to  the  said  yard  the  (lore  to  be  made  fitting  for 
the  occasions  of  the  said  Edward  Wood  And  liberty  to  make 
a  leanto  unto  the  end  of  the  parlor  stopping  no  light  <fe  making 
no  annoyance  to  the  house  by  filthy  stincks  or  otherwise. 
And  that  the  said  Brack :  shall  not  bake  or  cause  to  be  baked 
any  sorts  of  bread  to  sell  except  only  for  his  owne  famile 
during  the  time  the  said  partyes  live  in  Charlestowne  together, 
except  the  magistrates  shall  find  a  necessity  in  regard  of  his 
or  his  wiles  pb'vcrty  or  in  regard  of  the  towncs  want.  [Go?.] 

A  bond  to  perform  Covenants  in  391  1QS. 

A  bill  to  Brack  :  for  151  to  be  payd  24  Dec.  pcnall.     [Is.] 

This  Indenture  the  [Wa»//.-]  day  of  [/;/«« fc]  betwccnc  William 
Brackenbcrry  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England  planter  of  the 

1  William  I'rackenbury  was  a  baker  in  Charlestown,  and  extended  back  oast 

by  trade.      He  was  apparently  a  public-  ward   to  the  marsh  by  \yapping   Dock 

spirited  man  as  well,  for  lie  had  served  (Wyman's  Ch'trlcstmni).     .Joseph  Hills, 

as    constable    for    Charlestown    a    year  who  lived  on  one  side  of  this  house,  was 

01   two  before    this.      He  subsequently  a  woollendraper  from   Maiden   in   Eng- 

moveil    to    Maiden,    where    he   was    for  land,  and  his  sons  and  grandsons  lived 

some  time  selectman,  and  died  August,  in  Maiden  here.     Mrs.   Higcjinson  was 

1663.      The  name,    by  the  way,    often  Ann,  the  wife  of  the  Itev.  Francis  Hig- 

appears  spelled  Brankenbury.      Little  is  ginson,  of  Salem  (who  died  in  August, 

known  of  Edward  Wood  which  cannot  1630).     She  had  moved  to  Ne.w  Haven, 

be    inferred    from   this   passage.      The  where  she  died  in  1640. 
house  spoken  of  faced  the  Market  Place 


218  LECHF01WS  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

one  partc  «fc  Edward  Woqd  of  the  same  baker  of  the  other 
parto  witnesscth  that  the  said  William  Brackenberry  for  thirty 
nyno  pounds  &  ton  shillings  to  him  in  hand  payd  <fc  satisfied 
by  the  said  Edward  Wood  before  the  scaling  A:  delivery  hereof 
whereof  &  wherewith  he  the  said  Willm  Brackenberry  doth 
acknowledge  himself  to  be  satisfied  &  paid  &  thereof  <fc  of 
every  parte  thereof  doth  acquite  release  &  forever  discharge 
the  said  Edward  Wood  his  heircs  executors  &  administrators 
by  these  presents  doth  [131]  hereby  grant  bargaine  &  sell  unto 
the  said  Edward  Wood  one  dwelling  house  situate  in  Charles- 
towne  aforesaid  bctwecne  the  lands  of  Joseph  Hill  on  the  south 
parte  &  the  lands  late  Mr.u  lligginsons  on  the  north  parte  wth 
a  foreyard  already  palled  out  of  y°  breadth  of  two  yards  and 
three  ynches  at  the  entrance  thereof  out  of  the  strecte  there 
and  the  one  halfe  of  one  garden  thereunto  belonging  that  is 
to  say  the  south  halfe  to  be  equally  divided  in  the  middest 
at  the  cquall  costs  &  charges  of  the  said  partyes  to  these 
presents  in  convenient  time  and  all  ovens  outhouses  waves 
lights  eas'iuents  &  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging  And 
all  the  right  title  interest  &  demand  of  the  said  Willm  Brack 
enberry  of  in  &  to  the  premises  hereby  granted  To  have 
&  to  hold  the  said  dwelling  house  &  all  &  singulare  the 
premises  hereby  granted  wth  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said 
Edward  Wood  his  heircs  &  assignes  for  ever.  And  the  said 
Willm  Brackenberry  doth  hereby  for  himself  his  heircs  execu 
tors  &  administrators  Covenant  promise  &  grant  to  <fc  with  the 
said  Edward  Wood  his  heires  &  assignes  that  he  <fc  they  shall 
or  may  lawfully  quietly  &  peaceably  have  hold  &  enjoy  the 
said  premises  hereby  granted  &  every  parte  thereof  without 
the  lest  trouble  or  eviction  of  him  the  said  William  Bracken- 
bcrry  &  [t/a/it]  his  wife  their  heires  ct  assignes  or  any  of  them 
or  by  their  or  any  of  their  meancs  assent  or  prommt  And  the 
said  Edward  Wood  doth  hereby  for  himselfe  his  heires  &  as 
signes  grant  unto  the  said  Willm  Brackenberry  his  heires  and 
assignes  free  liberty  of  ingrcsse  cgrcsse  £  regresse  for  him 
<fc  themselves  &  his  <fe  their  cattell  <fc  goods  to  pass  to  and 
from  his  <fc  their  owne  yards  into  &  through  the  aforesaid  fore- 
yard  lie  <fc  they  finding  stuff e  &  wood  for  the  setting  up  & 


LECllFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  219 

upholding  of  the  forodooro  of  the  said  foreyard  the  said  doore 
to  be  made  fitting  i'or  the  occasions  of  the  said  Edward  Wood 
his  heires  it  assigncs  who  is  it  arc  to  set  tip  &  from  time  to 
time  amend  the  said  foredoore  with  the  materialls  of  the  said 
Wilhu  Braekenberry  his  heires  &  assigncs  And  further  that 
it  shall  be  lawfull  to  &  for  the  said  Willm  Brackenbcrry  his 
heires  it  assigncs  at  any  time  to  make  a  Icanto  unto  the  outside 
end  of  the  parlor  of  the  said  dwelling  house  upon  his  &  their 
owiio  ground  not  stopping  or  hindering  any  light  or  lights  of 
the  same  parlor  or  other  rooms  of  the  said  house  nor  making 
or  causing  any  annoyance  In*  any  privyes  hogstyc.s  or  any  other 
filthy  stiucks  or  otherwise  unto  the  said  house  or  dwellers 
therein,  And  furthermore  in  Consideration  of  the  said  money 
&  hargaiue  it  that  the  said  1'Mward  Wood  is  a  Baker  by  his 
trade  it  the  said  Willm  Braekenborry  ct  his  wife  were  not 
brought  up  to  the  said  trade  but  did  for  a  smale  time  use  the 
same  in  case  of  necessity  heretofore  Now  the  said  Willm 
Brackenberry  i'or  himselfe  ct  his  said  wife  his  executors  & 
admrs  doth  Covenant  promise  it  grant  to  it  wth  the  said  Ed 
ward  Wood  by  these  presents  that  he  the  said  Willm  Bracken- 
berry  it  his  said  wife  or  either  of  them  shall  not  bake  or  cause 
to  be  baked  any  sorts  of  bread  to  sell  during  the  time  that  the 
said  parties  to-these  presents  and  the  said  [blank]  shall  live  in 
the  said  Townc  of  Charlcstowne  together  saving  that  the  said 
Willm  Brackenbcrry  it  his  said  wife  may  bake  bread  for  the 
spending  of  themselves  it  their  family  And  except  the  mag 
istrates  shall  hereafter  judge  the  said  William  or  his  wife  to 
be  necessitated  thereunto  through  poverty  or  that  the  said 
Townc  cannot  otherwise  be  supplyed. 
In  witnesse  itc.  [5s-] 

[135]   Joseph  Cooke1  of   Cambridge  in  New  England   gent 
Sonnc  of  Thomas  Cookc  of  great  Yealdham  in  the  County  of 

1  Joseph   Cookc    came   over    in    the  came  to  America.     He  had  a  grant  of 

"Defence"    (1635)    with    his    younger  land  at  Cambridge,  which  lie  forfeited 

brother,  George,  and  with  Roger  liar-  by  remaining  in  England.   Joseph  Cooke 

lackendcn,  the  younger  brother  of  Rich-  and   his  brother  were  both  prominent 

ard    here    mentioned.      Richard    never  citizens  of  Cambridge,  often  deputies  to 


220  LECUFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT   NOTE-BOOK. 

Essex  gent  Deceased  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Thomas 
Cooke  of  Wormingford  in  Essex  gent  his  brother  &  to  Mf  Rich 
ard  Ucrlakenden  of  Earles  Colne  in  Essex  Esqf  lawfully  to 
enter  upon  the  ffrechold  lands  in  Rynkcscy  in  Suff  <fc  all  Cop- 
pihold  lands  in  great  Brysctt  called  Brysctt  Kell  holden  of 
the  mannor  of  Bryset  aforesaid  belonging  to  Kings  College 
in  Cambridge. 

Me  Will  in  Brackenberry  de  Charlestowne  in  Nova  Anglia 
plantator  tener'  £c  Edw  Wood  in  391  iQSm     dat'  <fcc. 
Conditioned  to  <pforme  Covents.     [Is.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Joseph  Cooke  of 
Cambridge  in  New  England  gent  one  of  the  2  sonnes  of 
Thomas  Cooke  late  of  Great  Yealdham  in  the  County  of  Es 
sex  gent  Deceased  Doe  hereby  constitute  ordeyne  and  in 
my  place  put  my  wellbcloved  &  dearc  brother  Thomas  Cooke 
of  Wormingfold  in  the  said  County  of  Essex  gent  and  my 
wellbcloved  ffriend  Richard  Ilerlakenden  of  Earles  Colne 
in  the  said  County  Esq!;  my  true  &  lawfull  Attorneys  joyntly 
or  severally  for  me  &,  in  my  name  lawfully  to  enter  on 
all  those  my  freehold  &  coppihold  lands  &  tenements  called 
Brysctt  Kell  lying  &  being  in  Rynkesey  &  Great  Brysett  wch 
were  given  bequeathed  settled  to  <fc  upon  me  cither  by  the  last 
will  &  testament  or  any  deed  <t  conveyance  or  surrender  of 
my  said  i'father  or  otherwise  in  the  County  of  Suffolko  or  any 
other  place  whatsoever  by  what  name  or  names  soever  the  said 
lands  &  tenements  [be~\  called  And  also  to  goe  unto  the  Court 
Baron  or  Courts  Baron  of  the  manor  of  great  Brysctt  afore 
said  or  manors  whereof  the  said  Coppihold  lands  are  held  and 

the  General  Court,  etc.      George  went  look  Joseph  Cooke  calls  himself  one  of 

home  to  England  and  served  in  the  Civil  the   two   sons   of  Thomas    Cooke,    the 

War,  and  died  in  Ireland.     Joseph,  it  is  other  being  Thomas  Cooke,  of  Worming- 

thought,  returned  to  England  after  his  ford,  Essex.     If  we  trust  Leehford,  and 

lirother's   death.      This    information    I  take  the  passage  to  mean  only  two  sons, 

have  taken  from  Savage,  who  says  noth-  as  is  most  natural,  George  Cooke  cannot 

ing  about  any  other  Joseph  Cooke  that  be   the   brother   of  Thomas    Cooke,   as 

will  correspond  to  what  we  know.     But  stated  by  Savage  ;  he  may  bo  a  cousin, 

in  the  next  entry  but  one  in  the  Xotc-  or  some  more  distant  relative. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUXCIUPT  NOTE-ROOK.  221 

for  me  it  in  my  name  to  require  to  be  admitted  tenant  or  Ten 
ants  of  all  the  said  Coppihold  lands  it  tenements  according  to 
the  Customc  of  the  said  mannor  or  mannors  And  for  me  tt  in 
my  name  to  pcrforme  all  such  suit  it  service  att  the  said  Court 
Baron  or  Courts  Baron  as  to  me  belongeth  to  be  done  in  regard 
of  the  said  Coppihold  lands  and  to  compound  it  agree  for  and 
pay  all  such  payments  duties  &  respect  of  homage  or  fealty  as 
1  ought  to  perform  to  &  wth  the  Kings  Matic  or  the  Lord  and 
Lords  of  the  said  mannor  or  mannors  or  their  Stewards  or  to  & 
wth  any  other  person  or  persons  to  whomc  such  payments  duties 
tt  respect,  are  or  shall  be  due  it  payable  for  the  said  freehold  <t 
coppihold  lands  tt  tenements  \vth  license  of  the  Kings  Maist  or 
of  the  Lord  or  Lords  aforesaid  as  the  case  shall  require  And 
afterwards  for  me  it  in  my  name  to  demise  let  it  sett  it  to  take 
the  rents  issues  it  proflits  of  the  said  freehold  it  coppihold  lands 
&  tcn'.s  And  further  for  me  it  in  my  name  to  article  covenant 
&  agree  w11*  any  person  or  persons  about  the  sale  surren 
der  it  purchase  of  the  said  freehold  tt-coppihold  lands  it  tene 
ments  for  such  reasonable  summcs  of  money  as  they  are  worth 
and  the  said  money  for  me  it  in  my  name  to  receive  tt  then  the 
said  lands  it  tenements  to  such  person  or  persons  purchasing 
the  same  it  to  their  use  for  me  it  in  my  name  to  convey  assure 
it  surrender  according  to  law  it  the  Customo  of  the  said  mannor 
or  mannors  whereby  they  my  sayd  Attorneys  or  cither  of  them 
may  bynd  me  to  make  any  further  legall  assurance  conveyance 
or  surrender  as  the  said  purchaser  or  purchasers  or  their 
Counsell  learned  in  the  law  shall  reasonably  advise  or  require 
so  that  for  the  doing  thereof  I  bo  not  compelled  to  travel  forth 
of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the  Mattachusctts  Bay  in  New  England 
And  further  for  me  it  in  my  name  to  make  doc  it  execute  all 
other  lawfull  acts  it  deeds  requisite  for  the  recovery  entering 
on  it  taking  possession  of  the  said  lands  it  tenements  tt  further 
touching  the  letting  setting  it  taking  the  rents  issues  it  profitts 
thereof  and  touching  the  selling  tt  passing  away  of  the  same 
and  all  other  the  premises  as  fully  powerfully  it  [136]  effec 
tually  as  I  myselfc  in  my  owne  proper  person  might  or  eould 
doe  Hereby  ratifying  gratefully  accepting  it  confirming  all  & 
whatsoever  my  said  Attorneys  or  cither  of  them  shall  lawfully 


222  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

doe  in  the  premises  In  witncsse  whereof  I  have  hereunto  sett 
my  hand  &  scale  the  {fifth  day  of  November  in  the  ffifteenth 
yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  now  King 
of  England  &c  Annocp  Dili.  1G89  Coram  Willo  Hihbens  l  & 
[Want]  <t  mcipsc. 

And  I  John  Winthrop  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of 
the  Mattachusctts  Bay  in  New  England  having  scene  these 
presents  signed  scaled  &  delivered  in  my  presence  have  thought 
good  at  the  spcciall  instance  &  request  of  the  abovemcntioned 
Joseph  Cooke  to  certify  the  same.  In  testimony  whereof  I 
have  hereunto  caused  the  Common  Seale  of  our  Colony  to  be 
affixed  the  day  &  yearc  abovcsaid.  [3s.  Gc?.] 

This  Indenture  £c  Betweene  Willm  Cheney  of  Roxbury  in 
N.  E.  p.  of  the  one  pte  &  Walter  Blackborne  late  of  Roxbury 
afor's'1  p  of  the  other  ptc  Witncsscth  that  the  said  Willm 
Cheney  for  divers  good  causes  &  considerations  him  there 
unto  moving  Doth  by  these  presents  grant  alien  <fc  enfeoffe 
unto  the  said  Walter  Blackborne  all  that  his  dwelling  house 
in  Roxbury  aforesaid  wth  the  lands  heretofore  purchased  wtb 
the  same  that  is  to  say  six  acres  of  upland  medow  more  or 
lessc  six  acres  of  salt  mrsh  more  or  lessc  sixteone  acres  in 
a  great  lott  wlh  a  common  fence  nync  acres  &  an  halfe  of 
woody  upland  unfenced  twelve  acres  of  a  rocky  woodlott 
fenced  tonn  acres  belonging  to  the  said  house  &  two  acres 
more  or  less  heretofore  purchase'!  at  another  time  &  also  the 
Cowehoiisc  or  barnc  set  up  but  not  quite  finished  wth  all  & 
singulare  the  appurtenances  To  have  &  to  hold  the  said  Dwel 
ling  house  &  lands  &  all  &  singulare  the  premises  wth  the 
appurtenances  unto  the  said  Walter  Blackborne  his  heircs  and 
assigncs  for  ever.  Provided  always  that  if  the  said  William 
Cheney  his  executors  &  administrators  shall  from  time  to  time 
&  at  all  times  hereafter  well  <fc  truly  observe  fullfill  &  keepe 
all  such  articles  Covenants  condicons  agreements  &  promises 

1  William   Hibbins  was  admitted   an  but  soon  returned,  and  was  chosen   as- 

inhabitant   of   Boston    May  27,    1639;  sistant  in  164,3,  which  office  he  held  till 

made  freeman   May  13,   1610;  deputy,  his  death,  1654. 
1640  and  1641 ;  then  went  to  England, 


LECHFOHD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  223 

menconed  &  contcyncd  in  ccrtainc  Articles  of  agreement  in 
dented  made  the  Day  before  the  Day  of  the  date  of  these 
presents  between  the  said  Walter  Blackborne  of  the  one  pane 
<fc  the  said  Willm  Cheney  of  the  other  parlc  concerning  the 
keeping  of  six  Cowes  &  their  living  increase  &  rend  ring  the 
said  Cowes  [137]  tt  an  equall  halfe  of  the  said  living  increase 
unto  the  said  Walter  his  executors  tt  admrs  at  the  end  of  three 
yearcs  from  thenceforth  as  on  the  partc  <fc  bchalfe  of  the  said 
William  Cheney  his  executors  or  administrators  arc  to  be  ob 
served  fullfilled  ct  kept  then  this  present  grant  &  fcoffmcnt 
shall  be  voyd  &  of  none  effect  or  els  it  shall  be  &  remainc  in 
full  power  strength  &  vcrtue  The  said  Win  Cheney  his  heircs 
&  assignes  to  continue  in  possession  of  the  said  House  <fc  pos 
sessions  before  granted  unlesse  a  manifest  breach  of  the  said 
Articles  fall  out  to  be  committed  by  him  or  them  their  executors 
or  administrators.  In  witncssc  <fcc.  1  Oct.  1031).  [4.4.] 

Me  Edvum  Colcord  l  &  Lieutenant  Richard  Morice  dc  Dover 
ppc  fhimen  dc  Pascattaqua  in  Nova  Anglia  plantator  in  TO1 
Stephano  Orecnsmyth.  The  Condicon  to  deliver  to  S  Or  5000 
of  Clapboard  4  foot  <fc  halfc  long  and  at  the  heart  from  2  inches 
to  5  inches  thicke  or  upward  every  way  merchantable  it  at  any 
time  after  tho  last  of  March  next  within  a  Cables  length  of  the 
usuall  riding  place  of  the  shipps  just  at  the  waters  side  at 
Pascatt  rivers  mouth  &  to  fyiul  a  boat  or  lighter  to  help  put 
them  aboard.  [Is.  Is.  GcZ.] 

Jonathan  Weymouth  2  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Rich 
ard  Wayt  to  receive  of  Edward  Ilele  mercli1  T1  5*.  recovered 

1  Edward  Colcord  was  allied  with  Mr.  matters,     but    seldom     in    any    other 

Wheelwright  in   the   purchase  of  some  connection. 

lands  from   Indians  whereon    to    found         2  It  will  be  remembered  that  Jonathan 

the.  town  of  Exeter.     He  was  of  Dover  Weymoutli  and  Edward  Ilele  are  not  to 

in   1G40,  and  moved   thence  to   I  lamp-  be  easily  found.     Richard  Waite  I  take 

ton,   where  he   died   IGS'J.      Lieutenant  to  be   the  Boston  tailor  who  served  in 

Morris  we  have  met  with  before  in  such  the   Pc<juot  war  as  sergeant.      lie  was 

transactions   as   the    present.     Stephen  freeman,    1037  ;    disarmed,  as  so  many 

Greensmith  is  frequently  mentioned,  in  with  whom  we  have  had  to  do,  for  sym- 

Winthrop  and  elsewhere,  as  being  prose-  pathy  with  Anne  Hutchinson,  and  died 

cuted  for  too  rash  speaking  on  religious  1680,  or  thereabouts. 


224  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

agl  him  in  the  Cort  at  Boston  5  No  :  1G39  Dat'  12.  9.  1G39. 
coram  inc.      [Gc?.] 

The  same  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  the  same  agt  Arthur 
Browne  l  of  Casko  merchant  for  3*  Dat'  12.  9.  1G39  '  coram 
me. 


John  Winthrop  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the 
Mattachusetts  hay  in  New  England  to  all  manner  of  persons 
whomc  it  may  concerne  greeting  These  are  to  certify  you  that 
William  Sergeant2  late  of  Northampton  haberdasher  of  llatts 
and  now  of  Charlestown  in  New  England  planter  &  Sarah  his 
wife  late  the  wife  of  William  Minshall  of  Whitchurch  in  the 
County  of  Salop  gent.  Deceased  are  both  blessed  be  God  in  full 
life  <fe  good  health  at  the  time  of  the  making  hereof  In  testi 
mony  whereof  I  have  caused  the  publicke  scale  of  our  Colony 
to  be  hereto  affixed  the  fourteenth  day  of  November  in  the  fif 
teenth  yearc  of  the  raigne  of  our  Sovcraigne  Lord  Charles  now 
King  of  England  <fcc  Annoqp  Dili  1G39.  [Is.] 

Captainc  Morris  3  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Willm  Peirce 
of  Boston  mariner  agt  Daniel  Cornelius  sawyer  &  ffisherman 
for  foure  pounds  in  money  &  for  two  hoggshcads  of  cod  fish  to 
the  value  of  three  pounds  wch  should  have  ben  payd  this  time 
twelve  moneth.  14.  9.  1G39.  [Gd.] 

This  Indenture  of  a  ffrcightmcnt  made  the  twenty  fourth  day 
of  October  in  the  fifteenth  ycare  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Soveraigne 

1  Arthur  Brown,  of  Casco,  and  later  and  elsewhere,     lie  is  said  to  have  made 
of  Winnegansett  (]>ost,  p.  219),  I  sup-  more  voyages  to  and  from  Boston  than 
pose  to  be  Arthur  Browne,  Saco,  163G,  had  any  other  in  the  same  years.     He 
noted  by  Savage.  was  the;  compiler  of  "an  almanac  made 

2  William  Sargent  and  his  wife  Sarah  for   New    England"   (Winth.,    i.  289), 
are   both   mentioned    by   Savage,    who  which  was  the  first  thing  after  the  Free- 
knows  but  little  else  that  is  now  perti-  mans  Ontli  (probably  only  a  broadside), 
nent  except  the  fact  here  certified  to  by  printed  at  the  press  at  Cambridge  by 
Winthrop.  Stephen  Day,  the  partner  of  the  I\ev. 

3  Morris  was  captain  of  I  know  not  Josse  Glover,  as  has  been  already  noted 
what,  but  frequently  has  the  title  given  above.      Captain    Peirce   was  killed  in 
him  after  this  entry.      AVilliam  Peirce  the  West  Indies  by  the  Spaniards  some 
was  a  Boston  sea-captain,  of  whom  very  two  years  after  this  date,  as  may  be  read 
frequent  mention  is  found  in  Wiuthrop  in  "Winthrop  (ii.  33). 


LECHFORD'S   M  AX  U  SCRIPT  NOTl'1-UuOK.  2:25 

Lordc  Charles  now  King  of  England  &c  Annocp  Dili.  10o9 
L>ct\vcene  Nicholas  Trerise :  Master  of  the  good  ship  the 
Planter  of  the  hurden  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  tiinnes  or 
thereabouts  of  the  one  parte  and  Samuel  Mavericke  gent  in  bc- 
halfe  of  himselfe  <fc  his  Company  of  the  other  parte  Witnescth 
that  the  said  Master  Nicholas  Trerise  Doth  hereby  Covenant 
tfc  promise  to  and  with  the  said  Samuel  Mavericke  &  his  Com 
pany  that  he  the  said  Nicholas  Trerise  shall  &  will  compleatly 
furnish  the  said  ship  wth  men  victualls  ammunition  and  other 
necessaries  and  wth  what  [138]  convenient  speed  he  may  sayle 
directly  from  New  England  unto  the  roade  of  poynt  Comfort  in 
Virginia  and  there  or  in  such  other  place  or  places  in  James 
river  or  yorke  river  as  he  shall  be  assigned  to  goc  unto  and 
there,  take  aboard  his  said  ship  such  tobacco  as  shall  be  pro 
vided  for  him  by  the  Assignee  or  Assignes  of  the  said  Samuel 
Mavericke  &  his  Company  unto  the  full  quantity  of  two  hun 
dred  tunncs.  For  loading  of  wch  tobacco  It  is  agreed  bctweene 
the  party es  to  these  presents  that  the  said  Master  wth  his  said 
ship  shall  stay  from  the  day  of  his  arivall  at  Poynt  Comfort 
aforesaid  seventy  dayes  if  need  so  require :  and  shall  afforde 

1  Nicholas  TrcrwiG  (the  name  is  spelled  "Planter"  of  thirty-five  tons,  lot  to 
In  many  ways)  had  been  captain  of  La  Tour,  is  called  a  pinnace  by  AVin- 
the  "Planter"  five  years  before,  when  throp.  Those  anxious  to  make  out  the 
that  ship  came  from  London,  and  lived  connection,  as  I  am,  may  please,  them- 
in  Charlestown.  Thence  he  moved  to  selves  by  imagining  that  the  smaller 
Wobnrn.  Of  the  members  of  this  Com-  boat  was  some  sort  of  tender  or  long- 
pany,  beaded  by  Mr.  Samuel  Maverick,  boat  of  the  larger,  of  which  Maverick 
I  can  hardly  form  a  conjecture.  In  had  become  possessed.  Another  rcfer- 
regard  to  the  "  Planter,"  tbe  follow-  once  is  in  a  deposition  of  Maverick 
ing  may  interest  the  curious  :  In  1646  (3  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.,  vii.  116),  in  which 
Monsieur  de  la  Tour  hired  of  Samuel  the  "Barque  'Planter'"  is  spoken  of 
Maverick,  who  acted  for  Sir  David  as  La  Tour's  ship.  Tn  the  M'nssachu- 
Kirke  and  partners,  "a  certain  vessel  setts  Colonial  Record  (iii.  226)  there 
called  the  plan  Iter],  burden  thirty  fyve  is  mention  of  a  ship  "Planter"  in  eon- 
tunns  of  there  about,  for  a  voyage  in  nection  with  Edward  Bendall  and  Wil- 
her  to  hi;  made  vppon  the  coast  of  liam  Aspinwall,  which  may  or  may  not 
Lacadie"  (,SV//'.  Di-al*,  i.  f.  7f>).  This  have  had  some  connection  with  the  two 
is  nothing  more,  however,  than  a  coin-  here  mentioned.  The  year  is  1651,  six 
cidcncc  in  names  and  numbers.  The  years  after  the  deed  to  La  Tour.  The 
"  Planter  "  in  which  Trerise  commanded  name  "  Planter  "  was  probably  a  corn- 
could  hardly  be  of  less  than  three  bun-  mon  one,  however,  and  nothing  can  be 
dred  and  fifty  tons  burden  ;  and  the  really  inferred  from  it. 


22G  LKCIlFORirS   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

what  help  &  assistance  ho  can  w"1  boats  <fc  men  for  the  speedier 
loading  of  the  said  tobacco  aboard  the  said  ship  according  to 
the  Custome  of  the  Countrcy  necessary  attendance  for  safety 
of  the  said  ship  exccpted.  And  the  said  Samuel  Maverickc  in 
behalfe  of  himselfe  &  his  Company  doth  hereby  Covenant  A: 
promise  to  and  wth  tlic  said  Nicholas  Trerisc  that  he  the  said 
Samuel  &  his  Company  shall  A:  will  provide  the  said  quantity 
of  two  hundred  tunnes  of  tobacco  as  aforesaid  within  the 
time  afore  praelixed  and  shall  &  will  pay  or  caused  to  be  payd 
unto  the  said  Master  or  his  Assignes  fower  pounds  &  tenn  shil 
lings  for  every  tinin  of  tobacco  taken  in  on  his  or  their  account 
accounting  lower  hoggshcads  of  Virginia  casks  to  a  tun  one 
thousand  and  three  hundred  pounds  of  leafe  tobacco  and 
two  thousand  pounds  of  rould  tobacco  in  bulke  to  a  tunne. 
This  aforcsd  money  to  be  payd  one  halfc  at  twenty  dayes  after 
the  said  ships  arivall  at  her  porte  of  Discharge*  wch  is  London 
if  no  other  place  be  agreed  on  in  the  interim  by  a  joynt  Con 
sent  of  the  said  Master  &  loaders  &  the  other  halfe  at  twenty 
dayes  after  the  said  twenty  dayes.  Good  security  being  given 
by  the  loaders  for  the  payment  of  the  aforesaid  money  —  viz 
the  whole  quantity  of  the  said  Tobacco  or  so  much  as  the  said 
Master  shall  thinke  fitttobo  Dctcyned  in  his  hands  or  custody 
for  payment  <fe  satisfaccon  of  the  aforesaid  summes  of  money 
and  if  payment  be  not  made  at  the  times  afore  prefixed  then 
the  said  Master  may  Dispose  of  as  much  as  will  pay  the  freight 
and  to  lie  accountable  to  the  loaders  for  the  remainder  of  the 
said  Tobacco.  In  witncsse  whereof  the  partyes  abovesaid  have 
hereunto  interchangeably  set  their  hands  &  scales  the  day  <t 
yeare  first  above  written.  [3s.  6«?.] 

The   will   of   Mr  Willm   Bernard1  of    Charlcstowne    15.    0. 
1G39.     [3*.] 

A  Supplication  for  the  shopkeepers  of  Boston  M^  Cogan  2  <fc 
the  rest  to  the  ficnall  Cort  13.  9.  1039.      [2s.  Grf.] 

1  Of  William  r>amanl  there  is  a  note  2  John   Cogan   was  this  year  one  of 

in   Wyman's    Chnrlcstown  Estates   and  the  selectmen,  and  was  one,  of  the  town 

Genealogies  :      "  Inhabitant    1(542-3  ;  constables  as  well.     His  house  nnd  shop 

m.  Alice,  who  was  adm.  church  1.  (."»),  were  on  the  northeast  corner  made  by 

1645."     Other  mention  is  lacking.  State  Street  and  Washington,   next  to 


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227 


John  Evercd  als  Webb  of  Boston  Planter  conveys  to  John 
Ilansctt !  of  Boston  husbandman  one  jrardcn  of  halfe  an  acre 
or  thereabouts  lying  betwccnc  the  lands  of  goodman  Reynolds 
ou  the  north  <fc  the  lands  of  Richard  Wayt  on  the  south  &  the 
lands  of  Nicholas  Parker  on  the  east  <fc  the  highway  on  the 
west  for  91.  In  prcscncia  mei  &  Willi  Hcrickc.  [Is.  Gd.~\ 

[139]   For  the  Country. 

The  writing  of  the  receipt  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Dover  Kit- 
tcry  &  Oyster  river  into  the  Protect-on  of  this  Jurisdiccon. 
[Is.  Grf.] 

The  Commission  to  M?  Bradstrcate  for  those  places.     [Is.] 

The  Institution  &  limitation  of  the  Counccll  of  this  Juris- 
diccon.  [2.] 

Another  of  the  same.     [2.] 

Chartn  libortatis.     [2.-0.] 

The  Act  of  the  publiquc  &  private  tenure  of  land.     [1.] 

The  division  of  the  Plantation  into  shires.     [1.] 


the  house  of  tho  Rev.  John  Wilson  and 
opposite  that  of  ( 'nptain  Robert  Keayne, 
who  lived  on  the  southeast  corner.  These 
three  houses  werevpn  the  open  Market 
Place,  where  the  Old  State  House  was 
afterwards  built,  while  just  across  Wash 
ington  Street  was  built,  a  year  or  two 
later,  the  Meeting-House.  At  this  time 
the  Meet  ing- House  was  on  the  south  side 
of  State  Street,  some  few  steps  below 
Robert  Keayne's  (Book  of  Possessions, 
G.  60,  64,  81,  84,  85,  pp.  98-103). 

1  John  Ilansett,  called  in  the  church 
record  "  servant  of  our  pastor,  John 
Wilson,"  moved  after  this  to  Braintroe, 
—  where  he  may  have  lived  on  Wilson's 
land  there,  or  acted  as  overseer,  —  and 
again  to  Roxbury,  and  died  in  1684. 
John  Evcred,  as  well  as  Stephen  Evered 
(perhaps  his  brother),  always  appears  as 
"alias  Webb,"  and  later  in  the  Note 
book  &*  "  Webb  als  [blank]"  (p.  224). 
He  came  from  Wiltshire,  where,  accord 
ing  to  Savage,  WTebb  is  a  common  name  ; 


went  to  Chclmsford,  and  then  to  Dra- 
cut,  and  died  in  1068.  This  I  get  from 
Savage.  But  lie  bought  in  1658  the 
house  of  Richard  Hutchinson,  of  Lon 
don,  with  the  ground  whereon  the  Old 
Corner  Bookstore  now  stands.  He  sold 
the  property,  or  a  part  of  it,  in  1661 
(ShurtlefTs  Boston,  p.  675).  This,  I 
suppose,  was  just  before  his  removal  to 
Chelmsford,  where  he  was  representa 
tive  1663-16«55.  The  garden,  of  half 
an  acre  or  thereabouts,  is  easily  iden 
tified.  It  was  on  the  east  side  of  Wash 
ington  Street,  south  of  Milk  Street. 
[Savage  thought  it  might  bo  "unavail 
ing  to  ask  why  this  family  is  described 
in  all  the  records  by  a  double  surname." 
A  fact  mentioned  in  Fuller's  Church 
iristori/  (p.  110)  suggests  a  probable  an 
swer.  In  the  reign  of  Edward  III.  many 
Dutch  tradesmen  emigrated  to  Eng 
land  from  the  Netherlands;  and  "I  am 
informed,"  says  Fuller,  "that  a  prime 
Dutch  clothmaker  in  Glocestershire  had 


228 


LECUFUIW'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Richard  Carter1  of  Boston  &  Matling  Knight  of  the  same 
doe  undertake  for  51  to  fell  &  cutt  out  the  wood  growing  in  a 
swampe  of  Nicholas  Parkers  at  Rumney  marsh 2  within  26 
daycs  after  the  date  hereof  &  to  place  them  in  hcapcs  fit  for 
carriage  &  reasonable  hurdcns  fitt  for  a  man  easily  to  carry. 

For  every  great  lighter  load  of  Ed  :  Bcndalls  23s.  4d.  If  the 
worke  come  to  more  they  are  to  have  more  if  lesse  to  repay 
what  it  comes  short.  [Gd.~\ 


Lieuten1  Robert  Fekc  of  Watcrton  in  New  England  gent 


and 


Sargeant  William 


Palmer   of   Yarmouth   in  New 


Eng- 


the  surname  of  Web  [i.  e,  weaver]  given 
him  by  King  Edward  there,  —  a  family 
still  [1048-1655]  famous  for  their  man 
ufacture."  T.j  The  lot  is  in  the  Book 
of  Possessions  (p.  81,  F,  4*J),  standing  in 
the  name  of  Edward  Fletcher.  It  has 
the  same  abutters,  except  Nathaniel 
Bishop,  instead  of  Nicholas  Parker. 
Bishop's  lot  (in  1C  15,  or  thereabouts) 
was  immediately  between  Fletcher's  and 
Parker's,  and  it  is  probable  that  he 
purchased  it  after  the  date  of  this 
grant. 

1  Richard  Carter,  of  Boston,  is  gen 
erally  called  a  carpenter.  He  had  a 
house,  bought  just  about  this  time,  of 
William  Hudson,  Jr.,  on  the  west  side 
of  Washington  Street,  near  Boylston 
Street,  then  well  out  in  the  suburbs. 
Of  Matling  Knight,  I  find  mention  sev 
eral  times  in  the  Town  Record  and  else 
where.  He  was  admitted  townsman 
March  31,  1615,  and  was  appointed 
fence- viewer  at  Muddy  River  in  1653. 
There  arc  other  unimportant  references 
to  him  and  to  his  house,  which,  I  think, 
was  somewhere  in  the  region  of  Seollay 
Square,  near  the  corner  of  Hanover  and 
Washington  streets;  though  I  am  not 
certain  of  it,  for  he  has  no  land  in  the 
Bonk  of  Possessions  (Boston  Town  Rec 
ords,  i.  114;  Book  of  Possessions,  p.  Ill; 
H.  11). 


2  The  land  here  spoken  of  is  the 
great  allotment  made  in  1637  to  Mr. 
Henry  Vane  (Town  Records,  i.  27), 
which  by  this  time  had  come  into  the 
possession  of  Nicholas  Parker.  Here  see 
p.  141,  post,  and  note  thereon.  As  for 
Edward  Bendall,  it  was  one  of  his  avo 
cations  to  keep  the  ferry  over  to  Noddles 
Island  and  to  the  ships  riding  before 
the  town.  But  it  is  likely  enough  that 
he  had  a  "great  lighter"  on  purpose  to 
do  such  work  as  the  present.  There  is 
much  in  Lech  ford,  which  the  careful 
reader  will  remember,  on  the  subject,  of 
a  great  lighter  owned  by  Richard  Parker 
and  Edward  Bendall,  and  managed  by 
one  Thomas  Hedger.  But  I  cannot  say 
that  that  must  be  the  same  lighter  as 
the  one  here  referred  to.  The  ques 
tion  of  lighters  becomes  more  involved 
on  the  inspection  of  these  extracts 
(dates  and  all)  from  the  Colonial  Record 
(i.  165,  181),  March  3,  1635-1636: 
"Ordered,  that  there  shall  be  xxl 
gyven  Edward  Bnidal  out  of  the  trea 
sury  towards  the  loss  of  his  lighter;" 
and  October  25,  1636  :  "  Whereas  Ed 
ward  Bendall  had  20*  yielded  toward  the 
loss  of  the  lighter  and  that  the  lighter 
was  recovered  the  Court  allowed  him  121 
out  of  the  201  \vch  he  should  have  had, 
if  it  had  been  lost  towards  his  charge  k 
hindrance." 


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229 


land  <fc  Judith  his  wife,  and  Toby  as  Feke1  a^cd  17  sonne  & 
Daughter  of  James  Fckc,  latoof  London  goldsmith  Deceased 
makes  a  le!^  of  Attorney  to  Tobyas  IHxon  Citizen  <fc  mercer  of 
London  to  sell  one  tenement  or  house  &  shopp  in  Lombard 
street  London  held  of  the  Company  of  Goldsmiths  in  London 
whereof  he  dyed  posscd,  late  in  the  occupations  of  one  Bramp- 
ton.  dat'  5.  10™*  1030.  coram  Jo  Winthrop  Govr  James 
Luxford2  &  mcipsc.  [3s. J 

The  Information  of  Edward  Hall  of  Ipswich  servant  to 
Richard  Salstonstall  Esqr  to  the  right  wor11  the  Governor  & 
Counsellors  <fe  Assistants  in  the  Court  of  assists  now  assembled  : 
This  informant  saith  that  he  knowcth  Mar  mad  like  Pierce3  of 
Salem  tayler  £  knew  his  late  servant  a  boy  of  about  thirteen 
yoares  of  age  Deceased  upon  whose  Death  the  said  Marmaduke 
WUH  lately  arraigned  iu  tho  Court  at  Boston  as  for  a  supposed 
Murder  of  the  said  boy  And  this  inform1  saith  that  he  can  de 
pose  upon  his  oath  if  this  Court  please  that  when  he  wrought 


1  Tobyas  Feke  is  not  noted  in  Savage, 
and  so  I  suppose  is  not  heard  of  again 
in  New  England.     William  Palmer  was 
brought  to  Plymouth  by  his  father,   of 
the  same  name,  in  L621.    When  married 
(in  1(534),  he  lived  at  Scituate,  and  after 
ward   at   Yarmouth.      Savage   says    he 
moved    to    Yarmouth     "before    1643," 
which  we  may  amend  to  "before  1<>39." 
lie  became  a  lieutenant  later,  and  died 
in  Newtown,  L.  I.,  before  16'Jl. 

2  The    appearance   of   the    names    of 
James  Luxford  and  John  Winthrop  re 
calls  the  frequent  mention  of  the  "un 
faithfulness  of  my  servant  Luxford"  in 
the    n-'inthrop   I'apc.rs   (4  Muss.    Hist. 
Coll.  vi.  k  vii.  passim).     It  is  curious 
that  the  two  should  have  been  together 
at  this  time,  for  it  must  have  been  very 
close  upon  the  time  of  Luxlord's  broach 
with     Winthrop.      Hugh     Peters    says: 
"James  Luxford  was  at  Saugust  when 
I  came  by.     I  have  layd  out  for  him." 
This  is  in  a  letter  evidently  written  after 
Winthrop's  misfortunes,    dated   Salem, 


Dec.  26,  1639  (4  Mass.  Hist.  Coll 
vii.  202).  James  Luxford  is  also  noticed 
in  the  Colonial  Record  as  having  two 
wives,  and  being  punished  for  the  same 
(i.  245,  283,  295). 

3  The  trial  of  Marmaduke  Pierce  for 
the  murder  of  his  servant  is  related 
shortly  by  Winthrop  (i.  319),  from 
whom,  and  also  from  the  Colonial  Rec 
ord,  I  take  these  facts.  He  was  first 
accused  Sept.  3,  1639;  but  the  mat 
ter  not  seeming  quite  clear,  it  was 
put  off  till  the  next  Quarter  Court  to  be 
tried.  At  this  trial  the  jury  could  not 
agree,  and  the  case  was  continued,  Pierce 
being  let  out  on  bail.  This  deposition 
in  Lechford  was  sworn  to  on  December 
3  of  that  year,  and,  with  this  additional 
evidence  and  perhaps  more  that  we 
know  nothing  of,  the  case  was  tried 
December  3,  and  the  jury  rendered  a 
verdict  of  "  not  guilty."  Winthrop  says 
that  two  of  the  jury  dissented.  Pierce 
was  not  finally  discharged  until  March 
of  the  next  year. 


230  LECUFUllD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

for  the  said  Harmadukc  at  his  house  in  Salem  in  or  about  the 
first  moncth  last  was  twelve  inoneth  the  said  Marmaduke 
having  whipped  this  said  boy  for  mooching  the  next  morning 
after  the  whipping  he  eame  voluntarily  &  shewed  this  inform* 
his  body  to  see  how  his  said  Master  had  whipped  him  and  this 
informant  saith  that  the  said  boy  did  put  downc  his  breeches 
before  this  informant  and  he  lifted  up  the  said  boys  shirt  & 
viewed  his  body  well  both  behind  &  before  &  his  Doublctt 
being  some  thing  loose  this  inform1  saw  also  the  sd  boys 
wast  &  halfe  way  up  his  backe  &  this  inform1  saith  he  saw  the 
marks  of  stripes  upon  the  said  boys  buttocks  on  both  sides  red 
<fe  wales  but  no  blood  neither  did  this  informt  see  any  signe  of 
stripe  upon  the  said  boys  belly  forepart  of  his  theighes  wast 
or  any  parte  of  his  backe  but  all  the  said  parts  of  his  body 
besides  his  buttockes  were  white  &  faire  and  this  inform1 
believeth  [140]  the  said  correction  was  wth  a*  rod  upon  wch 
whipping  this  inform111  saith  that  within  a  day  or  such  a  space 
after  one  M?  Pcrin  of  Salem  brought  home  the  said  boy  to  the 
house  of  the  said  Marmaduke  &  Ml'  Pcrin  then  said  he  had  seen 
how  the  said  boy  was  whipped  &  therefore  wished  the  said 
Marmaduke  Pierce  his  wife  he  being  then  from  home  to  give 
the  said  boy  some  victualls  &  to  spare  any  further  correction  for 
that  time  for  that  he  thought  the  boy  had  sufiicient  correction 
for  that  time  or  spake  words  to  that  effect.  And  this  inform1 
saith  that  he  hath  heard  one  good  man  Walker  of  Salem  did 
upon  the  same  whipping  meete  wth  the  said  boy  in  the  woods  & 
together  wth  the  said  M?  Perrin  saw  the  signes  of  the  said  stripes. 
And  further  this  infonnt  saith  that  upon  the  sixt  day  of  tin: 
fourth  moncth  last  past  he  met  the  said  boy  at  the  Townes  end 
of  Salem  &  this  informant  seeing  him  hold  his  head  aside  asked 
him  what  ayled  him  whereto  the  said  boy  answered  that  he  had 
bin  keeping  of  goats  or  swine  &  sitting  in  the  woods  under  a 
tree  a  limbe  of  the  tree  fell  downc  upon  him  &  struck  his  head 
&  said  that  his  head  was  very  sore  and  this  informant  told  him 
that  he  doubted  he  had  bin  a  mooching  as  he  was  wont  to  do 
&  wished  him  to  tell  his  Master  &  Dame  of  his  sore  head  and 
this  informant  hath  heard  the  sayd  boy  dyed  upon  or  about  the 
thirteenth  day  of  the  same  fourth  inoneth  And  also  this 


LECIIFORD'S   MAXUXC111PT  NOTE-BOOK.  231 

informt  saith  tliat  whilcst  he  wrought  wth  the  said  Marmaduke 
wch  was  about  the  space  of  fortnight  the  said  boy  complaycd 
to  tliis  inform"1  for  want  of  vietualls  as  he  said  and  the  said 
Marmadukc  complayned  to  this  infor1"1  agt  the  said  boy  for 
lyinir  mooching  &  idlenesse  £  the  like  wherefore  this  inform111 
gave  the  said  boy  as  good  counsel!  as  he  could  but;  told  not  him 
or  his  Master  cacli  others  ComI>lta  and  did  observe  that  at  din 
ners  constantly  during  that  space  the  said  boy  had  vietualls 
enough  k  to  leave:  A:  lastly  this  informant  saith  that  he  did 
ever  it  doth  still  take  the  said  Marmadukc  for  a  moderate  <fc 
Christianlikc  man.  And  further  this  informant  cannot  say  or 
depose  materially.  [2.  Gc?.j 

Willm  Wintered1  mortgagcth  ccrtaine  lands  at  Ipswich  to 
Will  m  Tynge  merchant  wth  proviso  or  com!  icon  to  satislic 
Mr  Tynge  all  Debts  &  lawful!  demands  within  twelve  moncths. 
Dated  'J.  10.  1G39.  Coram  Tho  :  Burton  Robto  Fekc  ct  mc- 
ipse.  [2x.] 

An  account  of  the  widdowe  ha!  field  at  suit  of  Wm  Whitcred. 


Ingrosment,.of  the  last  will  &  Testament  of  Roger  Ilarlaken- 
den  2  Ksqr  &  the  Inventoric.     [Gs.J 

Received  of  Mr  Bcllingham  26  No  :  1639  upon  account  to 
the  Country  5*. 

Received  of  him  more  12.  22.  -  2s. 

[141]  To  write  for  Willm  Palmer  to  M?  Dixson  at  the  goat 
in  Lumbard  street  mercer  to  excuse  a  bill  of  Exr  charged  upon 

1   I  >';xn  make  nothing  of  this  agree-  Thomas  Burton   of  Uingham,   whom  I 

nnMit.     AYhitoreil  is  only  mentioned  in  find  in  Savage,  or  not,  having  nothing 

I.ochford  (in  the  next  entry),  and  is  not  to  guide  inc.     The   "widdowe  half)  old" 

found  anywhcM-e  else  that  I  know  of,  nor  I  t;d<e  to  lx:  the  relict  of  Richard  IlafFec, 

can   I   find   any   other  connection    than  or   llaflield,    of  Jpswich,   who   came    in 

this  paper  between  either  of  the  parties  1(5,  '55  with  his  wife  Martha,  and  whose. 

to  the  agreement  and  any  of  the  wit-  will  has  date   Feb.   17,   1GI59. 
nesses.     Indeed,    I    know    not    if    the          2  Roger  llarlarkendeu  died  Nov.  16, 

Thomas    Burton    here    mentioned     be  1038. 


232  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

him  to  one  Edmund  Anger1  of  Cambridge  for  his  occasions  a 
new  plant  <fc  his  wife  lying  in  &  to  advise  him  of  the  Lcrof  At 
torney  &  further  writing,  to  buy  10*  of  butter  &  to  spend  the 
rest  in  linncn  &  wollen  cloath  for  a  suit  &  coate  &  a  gowne  for 
his  wife  of  good  broadcloth,  viz  buckram  &  a  piece  of  good 
stuf'fc  for  pettycoates  a  Dozen  of  shoocs  halfe  a  dozen  for  women 
7n3  &  so  many  for  men  (JU3  six  paire  of  russet  bootes  9na  3  for 
winter  &  3  for  summer.  &  a  coppy  of  the  ler  of  attorney. 
[Is.  GcZ.] 

John  Winthrop  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the  M  : 
&c  for  801  sells  to  John  Newgate  of  Boston  ifeltmaker  One 
Lott  of  upland2  lying  neare  llumney  marsh  conteyning  150 
acres  abutting  upon  the  highway  leading  to  divers  mcns  lotts 
on  the  east  and  upon  the  lands  <pteyning  to  Charles-Towne  to 
the  west  and  the  lands  now  of  Nicholas  Parker  sometimes 
MF  Vanes  on  the  south  and  partly  upon  the  lands  of  James  Pen 
&  partly  upon  the  lands  of  the  said  John  Newgate  on  the  north 
pt,  in  fee  :  [1-G] 

William  Grey3  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  by  his  brother 
Henry  Grey  to  Philip  White  of  Pascattaquay  mariner  against 
Jeremiah  Willis4  late  of  Sagus  als  Lynne  for  31  11s.  16s.  G(/. 
charge  to  sue  him  at  Plymouth  &  5s.  for  a  short  hand  booke. 

1  Edmund   Angier    had    lived    \vitli  with  one  exception, — the  name  of  Mr. 
John  Cotton  in  Lincolnshire,  and  had  Vane  stands  in  the   Town  Record,  while 
intended  to  embark  with  him.     He  did  "Nicholas  Parker  sometimes  Mr  Vane's" 
not,  however,  come  over  until  1636,  and  is   in    Lechford.      The   third   name    is 
was  not  made  freeman  until  1640.  that  of  James  Penn,  above  mentioned, 

2  This  land  was  given  to  Winthrop  who  had  fifty  acres.     The  fourth  name 
Jan.    8,    1637-1638     [Boston     Record,  on   the  list  is   that  of  John    Newgate 
i.   27],  in   the  portioning   of  the  great  aforesaid,  who  received  one  hundred  and 
allotments  at  Rumney  Marsh  from  the  twelve  acres. 

town  of  Boston.     The  lirst  name  in  the  8  Concerning  these  and  other  Greys, 

allotment  is  "  Mr.  Henry  Vane,   Esq.,"  there  is  much  confusion.     Savage  men- 

who  received  two  hundred  acres,  which,  tions  no  William  Grey,  and  this  men- 

as  will  be  remembered,  were  now  iu  the  tion  of  his  brother  Henry  is  too  vague 

possession    of    Nicholas    Parker.     The  for  identification. 

next  name  is  that  of  John  Winthrop,  the  <  "Jeremiah    Willis,     Lynn,     1637, 

elder,  who  received   one   hundred  and  found    in    freeman's   list   at    Newport, 

fifty  acres,  described  precisely  as  above,  1655"  (Sdvcigc). 


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Willm  Pester,1  an  affidavit  11.  9.  1G39.     [Is.] 

Articles  of  Agreement  made  the  9th  day  of  January  Anno 
Pmi  1(189  betwcene  Edward  Uralc2of  Bristoll  of  the  one  partc 
and  William  Pester  of  Salem  in  New  England  mercer  of  the 
other  parte  as  folio  wet  h 

Imprimis  the  said  Edward  tleale  doth  hereby  for  himselfe 
his  heires  executors  and  administrators  Covenant  promise  and 
grant  to  <t  with  the  said  William  Pester  his  executors  admin 
istrators  and  assignes  by  these  presents  that  he  the  said  Ed 
ward  Ileale  his  heires  executors  or  administrators  shall  <fc  will 
pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the  said  William  Pester  his  exec 
utors  administrators  or  assignes  the  summe  of  sixty-five  pounds 
sixteenc  shillings  and  eight  pence  together  wth  all  such  Dam- 
mages  as  he  or  they  hath  bin  or  shall  be  iustly  put  unto  for 
not-pay mcnt  of  the  said  money  from  the  twenty-lift  day  of 
March  last  past,  upon  the  [Wawfc]  day  of  [blank']  next  ensuing 
the  date  hereof  at  or  in  the  Insurance  oilicc  in  or  ncare  the 
royall  exchange  London. 

Item  the  said  Willm  Pester  doth  for  himselfe  his  heires 
executors  &  administrators  and  assignes  covenant  promise  and 
grant  to  and  wth  the  said  Edward  Healc  his  executors  adminis 
trators  and  assignes  by  these  presents  that  he  the  said  William 
Pester  his  heires  executors  administrators  or  assignes  shall  & 
will  accept  of  so  much  money  as  the  nync  hundred  weight 
of  tobacco  wch  the  said  William  Pester  heretofore  had  of  the 
said  Edward  Ileale  &  one  Richard  Barnhousc 3  are  or  shall 
be  sold  for  by  the  said  William  Pester  his  executors  adminis- 

1  William  Pester,  mercer  of  Salem,  Bristol,  which  gives  me  the  impression 
since  1G37.     He  must  l>e  the  one  who  that   he   was  not   in   America  for   any 
owed  "  the  country  for  wine  bought  and  length  of  time,  particularly  as  his  dwell- 
souhl  fortie  one  shillings  &  eight  pence."  ing-place  is  not  stated  in  any  of  the  re- 
(M<is,<i.    CoU.  Rcc.  \.   225),  though   the  ferences  to  him  made  heretofore. 

trade  of  mercer  seems  hardly  compatible          3  Richard  Barnhousc  may  have  been 

with  that  of  a  wine-seller.     Savnge  snys:  Richard   Barnes    of    Marlborough    (see 

"  Salem  16^7  when  with  grant  of  land  Savage),  but  1  think,  rather,  that  he  was 

he  had  the  prefix  of  respect,  yet  aban-  an  Englishman,  or  more  likely  a  Virgin- 

doned  the  country  in  1G42,  and  ten  years  ian,  with  whom  Ilcale  had  had  dealings 

later  not  being  heard  of,  his  wife  Dorothy  (see  ante,  p.  132,  where  is  mention  of 

had  leave  to  marry  again."  Heale's  connection  with  Viiginia). 

2  Edward    Ileale   is   here   called    of 


2o4  LECH  FORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

trators  or  assigncs  according  to  their  best  endeavours  in  parte 
of  payment  of  the  said  summc  of  sixtie  five  pounds  sixteenc 
shillings  &  eight  pence  and  Pammages  if  the  said  Tobacco 
shall  be  as  aforesaid  sold  for  lesse  than  the  said  suinnie  and 
Pammngcs  but  if  the  said  Tobacco  is  or  shall  be  as  aforesaid 
sold  for  more  than  the  said  summc  and  Pammages  then  the 
said  William  Pester  his  heires  executors  admtb  or  assg  shall  & 
will  pay  and  allow  all  the  iust  overplus  of  the  said  money  unto 
the  said  Edward  lleale  his  executors  admrs  or  ass?  within  one 
weekc  after  lawfull  demand  thereof  by  him  or  them  to  be  made. 
Item  it  is  agreed  and  fully  condescended  unto  by  and  bc- 
twccne  the  said  partyes  to  these  presents  that  all  former  bills 
bonds  writings  deeds  covenants  and  promises  made  to  each 
other  concerning  the  premises  other  than  these  presents  &  the 
writings  abovesaid  now  agreed  to  be  made  are  &  shall  be  voyd 
&  of  none  effect  and  each  to  release  the  other.of  them  pres 
ently  And  that  the  said  Wm  P. 

In  witnesse  <tc 

Item  it  is  agreed  and  fully  condescended  unto  by  and  be- 
twcene  the  partyes  to  these  presents  that  each  of  them  shall 
presently  become  bounden  each  to  the  other  in  one  bond  of 
[MiMfc]  pounds  apeece  for  the  effectual  performance  of  these 
present  articles.  [2.  Qd.  payment  taken  here  about  o.  4.] 

[142]  Mr  Micklethwayt  agreed  wth  me  for  to  let  me  tin; 
chamber  &c  at  5*  a  ycare  from  the  first  of  September  1030  to 
be  payd  quarterly  or  after  that  rate  whensoever  I  goe  away. 
His  time  also  began  1.  Aug :  before  wc-h  moneth  he  alloweth 
me  for  the  writings  wch  I  made  for  Mr  bemis  8s.  —  and  hence 
forward  to  pay  the  rent  to  Mr  Hill.  23?  11?  1030. 

Tno:  LECHFORD  NATHANIELL  MICKLETIIWAITE. 

James  Pen  sells  to  Nicholas  Parker  50  acres  of  land  lying 
at  llumney  Marsh l  lying  bctweene  the  Lands  of  John  Newgate 
feltmaker  for28l  to  be  pd  1.  4. 

1  This  fifty  acres  was  James  Penn's  received  something  less  than  11s.  an 
allotment  before  spoken  of.  Winthrop  acre  for  his  land.  James  Penn  received 


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235 


Articles  of  agreement  &  other  writings  made  bctwccne  Ed 
ward  Tyng  merchant  &  Thomas  Cornell 1  of  Boston  30.  11 
1G30.  [10s.] 

Job  Judkin  tunics  over  Willm  Boreman  and  he  placcth 
himselfe  apprentice  to  Thomas  Withcrley  mariner  for  six 
ycarcs  by  Indenture  dated  30.  11.  1G30.  [2s.] 

Robert  Harding  conveys  his  ground  where  his  house  stood 
&c.  to  Robert  Keaync  Richard  Parker  &  John  Cogaii  &  their 
heires.  12.  1.  1031).  [Is.  IM.] 

A  writing  for  Mf  Cogan  agt  Timothy  Hawkins.2  12.  1. 
1G39.  [Is.] 

A  mortgage  by  Edward  Bcndall  to  Willm  Tyng  merchant 
11.  20.  1G39  for  108  to  be  paid  20.  6.  1G39.  coram  Tho : 
Burton3  &  mcipse.  [2.  G.] 


something  more  than  11.9.  an  acre.  The 
difference,  however,  was  only  about  six 
pence  an  aero.  Edward  Ty.ng,  a  Boston 
merchant,  "early  wrote!  himself  brewer," 
says  Savage,  as  we  shall  see  later  (see 
post,  p.  144).  He  was  a  man  of  great 
influence  in  the  Colony,  as  was  also  his 
elder  brother  William,  of  whom  Lech 
ford  makes  frequent  mention.  He  lived 
to  an  old  age  and  died  in  1681.  He  had 
two  sons  and  several  daughters.  Of 
these  last,  Hannah  married  Habijah 
Savago,  son  of  Thomas  Savage,  and 
at  his  death,  Major-General  Qookiii ; 
Deliverance  married  Daniel  Searle  ;  Re 
becca,  Joseph  Dudley,  afterwards  gover 
nor  ;  and  Eunice,  Samuel  W  ilia  I'd,  Vice- 
president  of  Harvard  College. 

1  Of  Thomas  Cornell  little  is  known. 
He  is  said  to  have  removed,  in  1654,  to 
Rhode  Island,  where  he  was  freeman  in 
1655.  Job  Judkin  must  have  received 
William  Boreman  from  William  Towns- 
hend  of  Boston,  thatcher,  to  whom,  the 
reader  may  remember,  Boreman  was 
intrusted  by  Richard  Gridley.  Either 


Boreman  was  apt  at  the  learning  of 
trades,  or  his  character  may  be  inferred 
from  his  name.  Hi;  makes  lour  changes 
in  the  course  of  six  months,  thus  experi 
encing  four  trades,  each  of  which  re 
quires  six  years  completely  to  master 
it.  This  transfer  to  Thomas  Witlierly 
removes  him  from  Lechford.  I  suspect 
that  he  went  to  Wetherslield,  Connecti 
cut  (see  ante,  p.  105,  note).  Of  Job  Jud 
kin  nothing  is  known  except  the  names 
(and  dates  of  the  birth  und  death)  of 
his  wife  and  live  children,  for  which  the 
inquiring  reader  may  consult  Savage. 

2  Timothy  Hawkins  I  suppose  to  be 
the  carpenter  of  that  name  mentioned 
later  in  Lechford.  He  was,  I  believe,  of 
Watcrtown  ;  but  I  can  find  but  little 
mention  of  him,  except  in  the  Colonial 
Record  (i.  112,  244),  where  he  is  fined 
for  selling  (and  drinking)  strong  water. 
I  do  not  think  he  was  ever  freeman  of 
the  Colony. 

8  Thomas  Burton  (perhaps  the  one 
mentioned  ante,  p.  140)  may  have  been 
the  man  of  that  name  who,  Avltfc  others, 


236 


LECH  FORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


A  grant  by  James  Pen  to  Nicholas  Parker  of  the  50  acres 
aforesaid  upon  condicon  of  paym*  of  28*.     4.  2. 1G40.  [2.  6.] 

I  payd  Nathaniel  Ileaton1  for  full  of  writings   <fc  cutting 
wood.     11.  31.  1039.     5s. 


I  payd  John  Ilurd  2  delivered  to  his  wife  by  Sara  our  mayd 
for  making  my  wi.t^s  gowne.     12.  1.  1639.     8s. 

I  payd  Thomas  Marshall 3  before  hand  for  Wood  delivered 
by  my  wife  to  his  wife  in  the  10  moncth  last  past.  1* 


became  obnoxious  to  the  General  Court 
on  account  of  his  views  on  government. 
There  is  little  for  or  against  this  theory, 
except  that  I  can  find  no  other  of  the 
name,  and  think  it  likely  that  Lechi'ord 
would  have  had  some  dealings  with  the 
agitator  if  he  were  at  this  time  in 
Boston  (sec  Winth.,  ii.  262,  302). 

1  Nathaniel  Ileaton  was  of  Boston  as 
early  as  1(534.  He  died  shortly  after 
this  date  (about  1644  or  1G45,  1  should 
say),  and  his  wife  Eliza  married  succes 
sively  two  husbands,  both  of  whom  she 
survived. 

*  John  Hard,  the  tailor,  had  his 
house  and  garden  on  Washington  Street, 
iKitwocn  Summer  and  Bedford.  His 
shop  may  have  been  there  too  ;  but  I 
think  from  some  words  in  the  Town 
Record  that  it  was  somewhere  north  of 
the  Town  Dock.  [The  Town  Record  says 
(vol.  i.  p.  101):  "  Mr.  Glover  and  Brother 
Burden  hath  set  unto  them  the  ground 
before  their  proprietyes,  so  Fare  as  from 
the  Corner  of  M?  Webs  house  to  the 
Corner  of  Goodman  Hurds  Shop  upon  a 
streiglit  line."  (Hover  and  Burden  lived 
next  each  other  on  the  north  side  of 
Dock  Square,  being  then  directly  on  the 
water,  opposite  the  Town  Dock.  There 
is,  however,  no  mention  of  either  Webb 
or  Ilurd  in  the  neighborhood,  nor  of 
Glover  ami  Burden  living  beside  each 
other,  as  this  extract  would  seem  to 


imply  they  did,  in  any  other  part  of  the 
town.  But  it  seems  to  me  that  this  was 
not  an  unlikely  place  for  a  tailor's  shop. 
Thomas  Savage  tiie  tailor  and  John 
Newgate  the  hatter  had  shops  in  Ed 
ward  Gibbons' s  house;  nearly  opposite, 
and  George  Burden,  just  mentioned,  was 
a  shoemaker.  These  last  facts  are  from 
the  Book  of  Possessions,  which  was  com 
piled  between  1645  and  1C50,  while  tin- 
date  of  the  extract  from  the  Town  Record 
is  March  31,  IGJl.] 

3  "Great  indulgence,"  says  Savage, 
"in  speaking  of  Thomas  Marshall  the 
ferryman,  must  be  granted  to  investigat. 
a.  this  name,  for  nno.  Thomas,  Boston 
1(543."  There  are,  also,  two  other 
Thomas  Marshalls  of  date  near  enough 
to  this,  one  of  Reading  and  one  of  Dor 
chester.  Every  one  of  these  four  had  a 
wife  at  this  time,  so  we  get  small  help 
from  that  quarter.  Nevertheless,  I  think 
that  the  one  here  mentioned  is  the 
Thomas  Marshall  who  kept  the  ferry  to 
Charlestown,  and  it  is  not  unlikely 
that  he  brought  the  wood  from  some  of 
the  lots  at  Rumney  Marsh  in  which  we 
have  interested  ourselves  just  above. 
If  this  be  the  man,  like  many  more  of 
Lei.-hford's  friends  he  had  been  disfran 
chised  and  disarmed  in  the  Wheelwright 
times,  but  afterwards  rose  to  some  dis 
tinction  in  the  town  history. 


LECUFOUD'S   MAM'SCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  237 

Since  \vcbtimc  1  had  of  Itini  six  loads  of  wood  at  5s.  so  I  owe 
him  1  Os.  And  I  payd  Zacheus  Bosworth l  "2s,  for  2  loads 
briiiji-ing  &  owe  him  for  yc  rest  4.s\  12.  3.  1G39. 

I  writt  5  coppies  more  of  ihc  Lawes  for  the  Country  by  the 
direction  of  our  Governor.  11.  8.  1039.  [12.s>.  GJ.] 

Seven  of  them  &  the  former  had  3  lawcs  more  added. 
[3.s.  0.7. ] 

A  Coppie  of  the  Abstract  of  the  Lawes  of  New  England  dd 
to  the  Governor  11.  15.  1G39.  [5.  G.] 

And  12  Coppies  of  the  said  Lawcs  first  delivered  vizt  in  10 
last,  [11  10s.] 

I  wrote  Mr  Keayncs  answerc  before  the  Elders  to  M!  Sals- 
tonstalls  letter  the  answer  dated  11.  3.  1G39.  llec  Gd.  &  ISd. 
allowed  him  for  an  houreglassc.  [2.] 

Received  of  Mf  Kcayne  G*  of  Spanish  tobacco  upon  account 
11.  12.  1G39.  And  I  owe  him  one  load  of  wood  a  good  load. 

I  payd  M!  Burton  for  malt  cheese  &  irons  ll  &  owe  him 
8s.  \)d.  in  10  last. 

For  writing  a  Coppy  of  the  breviat  of  the  body  of  Lawes  for 
the  Country.  12.5.39.  [3s.] 

[143]  The  3  lawes  added  to  the  Copie  of  Lawcs  for  Dor 
chester  dd.  to  the  Constable  12.  G.  1039.  [6<7.] 

1  Zacchcus,  or   Zachariali,  Bosworth  in   1G37,  and  also  in  that  of  the  richer 

was  early  of  Boston,  and  may  have  come  inhabitants  wlio  contributed   the  year 

with  Winthrop.      In  the  Town  Ifrc.ordft,  before  to  the  support  of  Daniel  Maude 

when:  he  is  once  or  twiee   mentioned,  as  schoolmaster.      We   have   often   had 

he  goes   by   the  name  of  "Zackie"  or  occasion  to  refer  to  these  lists,  and  shall 

"Zaehe,"  as  though  nobody  \vas  very  undoubtedly   again;    for   almost   every 

sure   as  to  which  Christian  name  was  Boston   man    mentioned    by    Lech  ford 

in  right  his.     His  name,  or  nickname,  figures  in  one  or  other  of  them,  — as  is 

is  found  in  the  list  of  those  disarmed  indeed  most  natural. 


238  LECllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

The  3  lawcs  added  to  4  more  of  the  said  Coppics  brought 
by  the  marshall  12.  11.  39.  [2s.] 

Three  Copycs  of  the  said  brcviat  delivered  to  the  Covernor 
besides  the  first  12.  12.  1039  Coppy  dd  to  M?  B  for  an  old 
hogshed.  [96-.] 

One  Coppy  of  the  said  breviate  delivered  to  Mf  Bcllingham 
wth  one  coppy  of  tlic  originall  Institution  <t  limitation  of  the 
Councell  at  4s.  and  2s.  "l2.  17.  1639.  [1.  2.] 

Three  bills  of  exchange  bctwcene  Thomas  Nicholls  and 
David  Ollley l  for  21l  to  be  payd  by  George  Nichols  to 
Stephen  Offley  in  15  daycs  after  sight  any  time  after  1.  July 
px!2.  20.  39.  [1  —  G.] 

Received  of  M.  Bellingham  12.  22.  1G39.    2s." 

For  drawing  Articles  for  Ml:  Cradocke  &  Gould  &  Putnam 
&c.  12.  27.  [6s.] 

Seven  coppycs  more  of  the  said  breviate.     [I1  Is.] 

Be  it  known  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  we  Web- 
cowitcs  and  the  Squa  Sachem  of  Misticke  wife  of  the  said 
Webcowitcs  calling  to  mindc  and  well  considering  the  many 
kindnesses  &  bcncfitts  we  have  received  from  the  hands  of 
Captaine  Edward  Giboncs2  of  Boston  in  New  England  in 
pade  of  requitall  whcrof  and  for  our  tender  love  and  good 

1  David  Ofll.-y.  See  note,  p.  104,  Salem  lie  became  converted  from  whnt- 

anfe.  ever  Morton  ism  he  may  have  had,  and 

'-'  I  think  this  is  the  first  mention  of  hecame  freeman  early  in  1031,  his  name 
Captain  Edward  CJibbons  in  Lechford.  being  in  the  first  list  of  those  admitted. 
lie  is  too  well  known  to  make  it  ne-  He  shortly  afterwards  moved  to  Boston, 
cessary  to  insert  in  this  place  any  where  he  became  one  of  the  most  prom- 
description  of  his  life,  but  a  few  dates  incut  citizens.  In  Colony  matters  he 
may  be  some  help  to  the  reader's  mem-  was  also  forward,  being  almost  continn- 
ory.  lie  was  with  Morton,  of  Merry-  ally  deputy  from  Boston  between  1634 
mount,  before  the  settlement  of  the  town  and  1641.  lie  was  always  employed  in 
of  Boston,  and  lived  in  Salem  1G29,  some  any  enterprise  relating  to  military  mat- 
little  time  before  moving  to  Boston.  In  ters,  both  by  the  town  and  the  Colony. 


Ll'CllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  239 

respect  that  we  doe  bcarc  to  Jotham  Giboncs  Sonnc  and 
lleirc  Apparent  of  the  said  Captaine  Giboncs  doc  hereby  of 
our  o\vne  motion  &  accord  give  and  grant  unto  the  said 
Jotham  Giboncs  the  reversion  of  all  that  parcel  of  land  wch 
lyes  against  the  ponds  at  Mistickc  aforesaid  together  \vtb 
the  said  ponds  all  wch  we  reserved  from  Charlcstownc  and 
Cambridge  late  called  Ncwtowne  And  all  herrcditamcnts 
and  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging  after  the  Death  of 
the  said  Sachem  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  Reversion 
of  the  said  parcel  of  land  and  ponds  and  all  <fe  singularc  the 
premises  wth  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Jotham  Gib- 
ones  his  heires  &  Assigncs  for  ever  In  witncsse  whereof  we 
have  hereunto  set  our  hands  &  scales  the  thirteenth  day  of 
the  eleventh  moneth  in  the  [Wanjfcl  yearc  so  Declared  by 
Christians  One  thousand  six  hundred  thirty  and  nync  and  in 
the  ffiftccnth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  King  Charles  of  England 
tvc  Willing  that  these  be  recorded  before  our  much  hon 
oured  friends  the  Governor  of  Mattachusctts  13 ay  in  New 
England  and  the  rest  of  the  Magistrates  there  for  perpetual 
remembrance  of  this  thing.  [2 — G,  r.  Is.] 

In  1H30   ho  was  chosen  lieutenant  for  sachems.     It    wns   with   tho  desire  of 

Boston,  tho  rcdoubtablo  John  ITiitlerhill  treating  with  tho  "Sipui  Sachem"  that 

being    captain,    and    Kobert    Harding  Miles  Standish   niado    his   explorations 

ensign.     He  had  been  ensign  to  Under-  about  Boston  some  nine  years  before  the 

hill  for  two  years.    In  1637  he  was  in  town  was  settled.      She  lived  on  good 

the  Artillery  Company,  and  in  1041  was  terms  with  the  Colonists,  bartering  land 

its  captain,   as  well   as  twice  in   later  with  them,  and  receiving  a  "coate"  each 

years.      In    1G49    he    was  made,  major-  winter  from  the  town  of  Cambridge,  as 

general  of  all  the  Massachusetts  forces,  well  as  corn  from  the  same  town  (which 

and  in  lOTiO  was   made    assistant.      He  did    not   supply   these    small    luxuries 

died  Dec.   0,  1051.     He  had  been  pos-  regularly  without  some  orders  from  the 

sesscd  of  considerable!  fortune,  but  had  General  Court).     This  deed  in  Leehford 

probably   suffered   large   losses   towards  may  be  found  (with  some  small  differ- 

the  end  of  his  life,  having  been  mixed  ences  in  text)  in  Sufi.  Deeds,  L,  1,  f.  43, 

up    in    the    La    Tour    complications,  — entered  in  the  year  1040.    The  "Sijua 

and    being    on    the   whole    rather    more  Sachem"  made   her    sign    (a    bow    and 

adventurous    than    steady-going    as    a  arrow)    first,    and    Wcbcowitos    second. 

merchant.  Webcowites  was    her  second   husband, 

As  for  AVebcowites  (or  Webba  Cowet,  and  had  formerly  been  only  mcdicine- 

as   it   is   sometimes   written)    and    the  man.    Jotham  Gibbons  was  at  this  time 

"Squa  Sachem  "  of  Misticlce,  they  were  about  six  years  old. 
both   well   known   among  the   friendly' 


240  LLCllFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

A  petition  fur   Richard   Crichlcy  l   &   his  wife   1.    3.  1039. 


Kno\vo  all  men  by  these  presents  that  whereas  1  David 
Ol'fley  of  Boston  in  New  England  gentleman  did  heretofore 
receive  of  Robert  Bowen2  of  Boston  aforesaid  Cutler  one  case 
of  Knives  of  the  value  of  [///<»/</•]  shillings  upon  condition  to 
pay  him  ten  pounds  upon  the  birth  of  a  child  wch  he  should 
have  by  his  next  wife  and  did  promise  to  scale  him  a  bond 
or  bill  for  the  same  when  he  should  require  it  and  wheras 
his  former  wife  is  dead  as  he  saith  <fc  he  hath  since  married 
another  Now  1  the  said  David  Oi'lley  in  performance  of  my 
said  promise  doe  hereby  acknowledge  myselfe  to  be  indebted 
unto  the  said  Robert  Bowcn  the  summe  of  ten  pounds  to  be 
payd  unto  the  said  Robert  Bowen  his  executors  administra 
tors  or  assigncs  upon  the  birth  of  a  child  wch  lift  shall  have  by 
his  present  wife  for  the  wcb  payment  well  &  truly  to  be  made 
1  bynd  me  my  heires  executors  &  administrators  firmly  by 
these  presents  sealed  wth  my  scale  Dated  the  third  day  of 
the  first  inoneth  Anno  Dmi  1G39.  [9s.  Gd.~\ 

[144]  A  letter  of  Attorney  for  M:  Thomas  Mayhewe  3  & 
Jane  his  wife  for  her  sonne  to  3  Attorneys  «fcc.  [il  G.] 

Articles  of  agreement4  betwecne  M*  John  Wilson  Pastor  of 
the  Church  of  Boston  &  Richard  Wright  1.  3.  1G39.  [Gs.] 

1  I   do   not   find   this   petition   men-  4  These  articles  of  agreement  I  sup- 

tioned  in  the  Colonial  Record.     Critch-  pose  to  be  on  some  subject  eonneeted 

ley  was  a  blacksmith  who  lived  on  Court  with   Mr.    Wilson's  land  at   Braintree, 

Street  (where  S.  S.  Pierce  has  hud  his  which  was  granted  to  him  in   1034  in 

store   so   many  years).     His   wile    was  exchange    for   land    which    he   held   at 

Alice,  the  widow  of  William  Dinely  and  Mystic.     liicluiril  Wright  was  of  Boston 

mother  of  Fathergone  Dinely,  born  after  about  this  time  ;  but  as  he   is  always 

the  death  of  her  husband.     The  house  mentioned  in  connection  with  alfairs  at 

and  land  belonged  to  the  heirs,  and  was  Mount  Wollaston,  I  do  not  think  that 

held  for  them  by  <  'ritehley.  he  lived  in  the  city  at  all,  but  rather 

-  Bowen  I  cannot  lind  any  trace  of.  ,m  bis  farm,     lie  has   no  land  in   the 

8  Mr.   Thomas   Mayhew  was  at  this  Book  of  Possessions  live  or  six  years  later 

time   living    at    Watertown.      He    did  than  this  date,  though  his  land  is  men- 

cot   move  to  Martha's  Vineyard   until  tioned  as  bounding  an  estate  at  Mount 

1647.  Wollaston. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  241 

Borrowed  of  M*  Blackbornc  to  pay  M*  Micklcthwayt  for 
house  roome  2f  10$.  1.  9.  1039  to  be  repayd  in  a  moneth  &  I 
payd  M'  Micklethwayt  the  same  for  wch  I  have  his  receipt. 
&c.  [payd.] 

James  Pen1  conveys  an  house  sometimes  a  brew  house 
adjoyning  to  the  ware  house  ncare  to  the  wharfe  in  boston 
wth  the  ground  to  the  said  first  mentioned  house  belonging 
upon  parte  of  wch  grounds  towards  the  waters  syde  with  an 
highway  leading  from  the  said  wharfe  to  Edward  Bendalls 
wharfe,  to  Nicholas  Parker  his  heires  &  assigncs. 

Nicholas  Parker  conveys  the  same  to  Edward  Tyng  <fc  his 
heires  &c.  [2.?.  I  owe  M!  Parker  all  reckoning  seven  beside 
Is.  Qd,  for  wood,  pd.j 

Articles  of  agreement  bctwecne  M!  John  Cogan  &  Thomas 
Stocker2  2.  12.  1640.  &c.  [5s.] 

Copy  of  the  frcemens  oath  to  goodman  Shrimpton.3    [fid.] 

1  James  Penn  came  in  the  fleet  with  on  this  very  street  until  warned  by  the 
"Winthrop,  and  held  several  offices  in  selectmen),  and  William  Franklin, 
Church  and  State  before  his  death,  in  blacksmith.  Beyond  Wilson's  lane 
1671.  The  house* "sometimes  a  brew-  (now  Devonshire  Street)  was  John  Wil- 
house"  is  down  in  the  Book  of  Possessions  son's  property,  running  back  from 
in  the  name  of  Edward  Tyng,  who  sold  State  Street,  and  on  the  corner  of  Wash- 
it  in  1651  to  James  Everill.  It  was  on  ington  Street  was  Major  Edward  Gib- 
the  north  side  of  State  Street.  The  bons's  house  with  two  shops,  one  occu- 
highway  mentioned  is  now  Merchants'  pied  by  Thomas  Savage,  and  the  other 
Row,  and  the  south  side  of  Faneuil  Hall  by  John  Newgate. 
Square.  The  highway  I  suppose  led  2  Of  Stocker  I  find  no  mention  be- 
along  the  shore  end  of  the  wharves.  On  fore  1651.  Savage's  remark  is  "  Chelsea 
the  wav  up  to  what  is  now  Washington  nnd  Lynn,  1651,  1672,"  with  some  de- 
Street  (through  Dock  Square)  from  tails  as  to  his  wife  and  children, 
this  wharf,  comes  first  a  house  of  Valen-  3  Goodman  Shrimpton  I  suppose  is 
tine  Hill's  {whether  he  had  a  wharf  or  "  Henry  Shrimpton,  a  Brasyer  .  .  .  al- 
not,  I  cannot  say),  and  then,  aftiT  Isaac  lowed  to  be  an  Inhabitant."  25.  1.  1639 
Gross*1,  is  the  stone  house  and  ware-  (Boston  Toivn  Records,  i.  40).  As  one  of 
house  of  Edward  Bendall,  on  the  cor-  the  few  references  to  him  in  the  Town 
ner  of  Exchange  Row  with  the  wharf  Rcc.ords  mentions  a  fine  of  five  pounds 
spoken  of.  On  the  highway  (beyond  for  refusing  to  serve  as  constable  when 
Exchange  Row)  came  George  Foxcroft,  elected,  I  think  it  by  no  means  un- 
Robert  Nash,  the  butcher  (who  was  likely  that  he  never  cared  to  incumber 
in  the  habit  apparently  of  killing  beasts  himself  with  civic  responsibility  so  far 

16 


242  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

M^  Kcaync  4  bills  at  Qd.  2  agreements  at  12c?.  one  petieon 
at  Is.  6d.  [5  —  Gdf.] 

To  the  rijht  iuor11  the   Governor   Councill  $  Assistants  $  the 
rest  of  the  General  Cort  now  Assembled  3.  13.  1640. 

The  humble  peticon  of  EDWARD  PALMER  l  carpenter 

Sheweth  that  he  was  heretofore  fined  51  for  taking  19*.  for  the 
timber  of  the  stocks  in  Boston  wch  was  adiudged  an  excessive 
price  yor  petieoner  is  heartily  sorry  for  his  offence  wch  though 
not  great  in  itselfe  yet  was  of  evil  example  to  others  and  there 
fore  he  is  the  more  sory  for  it,  lie  confesseth  it  was  5s. 
too  much  wch  he  is  willing  to  restore  Yet  forasmuch  as  this 
was  his  first  offence  in  this  kinde  &  as  he  is  poore  <t  no 
wayes  able  to  pay  the  said  fine  having  a  wife  &  G  children  all 
or  some  of  wch  he  expects  to  come  forth  of  England  to  him 
shortly  he  humbly  prayes  the  honourable  Court  to  be  pleased 
to  remit  unto  him  the  said  fine  and  he  shall  dayly  as  in  duty 
he  is  bound  pray  for  yor  \vurpps  A:  the  wcale  Publicke.  [1.  1.] 

Won11  Sr,  —  When  1  came  first  into  the  Country  wch  was  T 
y cares  since  upon  taking  an  oath  of  an  Inhabitant  hcere  in 
this  Jurisdiccon  I  was  promised  that  I  should  have  all  privi 
leges  of  a  free  inhabitant  &  particularly  in  Disposing  of  towne 
lotts  wth  other  men  since  wch  time  I  have  bin  twice  sent  forth 
a  souldier  from  Waterton  in  the  Country's  service  I  never  had 
yet  any  thing  but  bare  wages  for  my  reward  neither  hath  the 
Towne  of  Waterton  given  me  any  Lott  but  some  of  them 
say  their  towne  is  full  &  yet  I  know  where  ground  lyeth  un 
disposed  of  wherein  they  may  give  me  a  portion  if  please 
them  I  have  a  wife  &  child  &  reason  to  looke  for  my  subsis- 

cven  as  to  take  the  freeman's  oath.  His  about  a  yt?ar  before,  and  Palmer  was 
name  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  list.  His  punished  by  a  fine  of  £5,  which  was 
son  Samuel,  perhaps  through  filial  rev-  remitted  to  105.  With  a  grim  sense 
erence,  some  twenty  years  later  refused  of  humor  not  wholly  foreign  to  the  Cen 
to  serve  as  constable,  and  paid  a  fine  of  eral  Court,  he  was  also  set  for  an  hour 
ten  pounds.  in  these  very  stoeks.  He  paid  his  fine 
1  We  may  find  this  case  in  the  Mtxs.  of  IG.s.  at  the  Court  assembled  on  the 
Records.  The  ollVnee  was  committed  date  above  (Muss.  Col.  Rcc.,  i.  260,  2l>l ). 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  243 

tencc  &  the  maintenance  of  my  famyly  <fc  Now  upon  this  my 
presenting  my  case  unto  you  I  humbly  desire  yor  worp" 
Counsell  &  best  help  to  be  afforded  to  me  resting 

Yor  humble  servant, 

JOHN  SiUBBiN.1 


Thomas  Richards  2  of  Wey  mouth  conveys  to  Nicholas 
Butler3  12  acres  more  or  lesse  lying  in  Dorchester  necke 
being  parcell  of  the  lott  assigned  to  the  said  Thomas.  [Is.] 

John  Hanset  sells  an  house  in  Boston  &  a  garden  plot4  of 
halfe  an  acre  or  thereabout  lying  next  to  Ralfc  Mason  on  the 
south  &  M*  Flints  house  on  the  north  to  Thomas  Paynter  & 
he  conveys  it  to  Thomas  Clcrkc  25!  41  [2s.] 

[145]   Inventory  of  John  Johnsons  goods.     [2.  G(Z.] 

Releases  <fc  acquittances  by  Thomas  Barker  &  Francis 
Lambert  for  themselves  &  John  Johnsons  children  to  Mr 
Thomas  Savage  3.  14.  1640.  [Is.] 

1  John   Stuhbin,    of  Watcrtown,    is  by  noticing  the  abuttcrs.     It  was  on  the 
very  vaguely  heard  from  in  various  ways,  west  side  of  Washington  Street,  north 
Savage   says   he   may   have    moved   to  of  West  Street.     It  is  in  the  Book  of 
New  London,  and  mentions  his  wife  and  Posscssio-iis  under  the  name  of  Thomas 
the  time  of  his  death.     He  never  took  Clarke.     I  do  not  know  exactly  who  this 
the  freeman's   oath,  but  was   probably  John  Johnson  may  have  been,  though  I 
admitted  an  inhabitant  of  Watertown.  suppose  him  to  have  been  one  of  the 

2  Thomas  Richards,  it  will  be  remcm-  "  four  Yorkshiremen  "  (ante,  p.  1).     If 
bered,  had  just  moved  from  Dorchester  he  were  dead  at  this  time,  he  had  left  a 
to  Weymouth  (see  p.  103,  ante).  He  took  son  of  the  same  name  (noted  in  Savage 
the  freeman's  oath  about  this  Jime  (May  as  "Rowley,   1050"),  who  was  one  of 
13,  1640),  and  it  is  possible  that  he  may  the  children  mentioned  below.    Thomas 
have  taken  the  opportunity  of  a  journey  Barker  and  Francis  Lambert  were  two 
to  Boston  to  make  this  bargain.  of  the   Yorkshiremen    spoken   of;   and 

8  Nicholas  Butler  was  one  of  the  altogether  this  business,  I  suppose,  may 

more  prominent  inhabitants  of  Dorches-  have  had  somo  connection  with  the 

ter.  Ho  moved  in  1651  to  Martha's  conveying  of  the  house  spoken  of 

Vineyard.  above,  —  though  there  is  no  mention 

4  This  lot  of  land  was  not  the  one  of  Punderson,  who  was  now  settled  at 

spoken  of  above  (p.  138),  as  may  be  seen  New  Haven. 


244  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Fourc  writings  for  foure  Children  of  Mr  Will™  Skipper  3.  14. 
1640.     [4s.] 


Coppy  of  the  freemcns  oath  to  Mr  Rucke.1 

To  the  honor**  Governor  <f  Court  assembled. 

The  pcticon  of  Abraham  Palmer  of  Charlcstowne  Shcwcth 
That  this  Court  was  pleased  about  a  ycarc  since  to  grant  him 
200  acres  for  money  put  into  the  common  stocke  about  12 
yearcs  past  Yor  petitioner  humbly  dcsireth  that  the  same  may 
be  layd  out  to  him  at  the  end  of  Charlestowne  bounds  And 
he  shall  as  his  duty  bynds  him  pray  for  this  Court  &c.2 
[1,.] 

I  payd  Thomas  Marshall  in  full  for  all  wood  3.  15.  1640 
—  7.  Qd. 

And  goodman  [Zachie]  Bosworth  &  I  are  also  even  for 
payd  him  the  same  day  —  1. 

Articles  of  agreement  made  the  ffifteenth  day  of  May  Anno  Dni 
1640  betweene  RICHARD  PARKER  of  Boston  in  New  England 
merchant  of  the  one  parte  and  JOHN  PARKER  8  of  Dedham 
in  Neiv  England  yeoman  of  the  other  parte  as  folloiucth. 

Imprimis  the  said  Richard  Parker  doth  hereby  demise  &  to 
farme  Ictts  unto  the  said  John  Parker  one  ffarme  and  lands 
thereto  belonging  lying  in  Dedham  aforesaid  wth  the  appurte 
nances  To  have  &  to  hold  the  said  farme  house  <fc  premises 
wth  the  appurtenances  unto  him  the  said  John  Parker  his 

1  If  this  is  the  same  date  as  the  two  the  petition.     He  was  a  merchant  from 
entries  above,  Mr.  Thomas  Rucke  had  London,  who  in  1628  was  interested  in 
already  taken  the  oath  the  day  before.  the   patent.      He    came  over   in    1629, 

2  This    land    was    granted    him   by  and  was  made  freeman  1630.     He  was 
tho    General     Court     Sept.     9,     1638.  later  a  representative,  and  served  in  the 
Whether  it  was  laid  out  as  he  wished,  I  Pequot  war.  He  was  an  active  merchant, 
cannot  say.     I  find  no  record  of  it  in  and  died  in  London,  1651.     See  Savage 
Wyman's  Chnrlcstown.     Palmer  was  an  and  Wyman.  . 

influential  man  in  his  town,  and  had  8  John  Parker,  of  Dedham,  I  can 
much  to  do  with  laying  out  the  lands  throw  no  light  on,  and  it  is  hardly  neees- 
eti-.,and  I  suppose  that  tin-Court  granted  sary  here  to  say  anything  of  Richard. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  245 

executors  administrators  &  assigncs  from  the  twenty  nynth 
clay  of  September  last  past  for  &  during  the  terme  of  seven 
ycarcs  from  thenceforth  next  ensuing  fully  to  be  compleat 
<fc  ended. 

Item  the  said  Richard  Parker  doth  hereby  let  &  deliver 
unto  the  said  John  Parker  the  stockc  hereafter  mentioned 
that  is  to  say  nync  cowcs  one  bull  of  two  ycares  old  one  steere 
of  foure  yearc  old  one  steere  of  three  ycare  old  and  one  steere 
of  two  yearc  old  six  ewe  goats  and  one  ram  one  breeding 
sowe  two  turky  henncs  <fc  a  cockc  one  waine  wth  whecles  & 
other  furniture  thereto  belonging  also  one  plough  &  furniture 
therto  belonging  and  one  boatc  wth  the  appurtenances  valued 
&c.  in  a  schedule  hereto  annexed  mentioned  to  be  kept  used 
&  improved  on  the  premises  &  in  the  managing  thereof 
according  to  the  true  meaning  of  these  presents. 

Item  that  the  said  Richard  Parker  shall  <fe  will  finish  the 
housing  on  the  premises  and  build  a  new  barne  wth  necessary 
outhouses  for  the  cattle  in  convenient  time. 

Item  that  the  said  partycs  shall  each  of  them  have  the  one 
lialfo  of  the  increase  of  the  said  live  stockc  &  the  profitts  of 
the  said  fnrmo  during  the  said  terme  except  of  the  conic 
thereon  growing  this  present  yearc  wch  the  said  John  Parker 
is  to  reape  &  have  to  himselfe  <fe  afterwards  during  the  said 
terme  the  cornc  to  be  equally  divided  bctwecne  the  said 
partycs  by  the  bushcll. 

Item  that  the  increase  of  the  said  live  stockc  shall  be 
equally  divided  bctwecne  the  said  partycs  att  the  end  of  every 
two  yeares  during  the  said  terme  and  at  the  end  of  the  said 
terme. 

Item  that  the  said  John  Parker  shall  &  will  kecpo  &  im- 
ploy  on  the  premises  two  men  servants  <fc  one  mayd  servant 
together  wth  his  owne  labour  &  industry  during  the  said 
terme. 

Item  that  the  said  John  Parker  shall  <fe  will  broake  up  & 
plough  so  much  of  the  ground  on  the  promises  as  shall  make 
up  the  ground  thereon  already  broken  up  twenty  acres  within 
the  terme  aforesaid  and  what  ground  more  he  [146]  shall  break 
up  on  the  premises  that  he  cannot  take  two  cropps  of  the  said 


246  LECllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Richard  Parker  ahull  &  will  allow  him  so  much  for  the  doing 
thereof  as  it  shall  be  worth. 

Item  that  if  any  of  the  said  live  stocke  decay  during  the 
said  termc  the  same  shall  be  made  up  in  kindc  from  time  to 
time  out  of  the  best  of  the  increase  of  the  said  stocke. 

Item  that  the  said  John  Parker  shall  &  will  from  time  to 
time  rcpaire  maintain  &  uphold  the  said  ffarmc  house  & 
premises  wth  all  needful  &  necessary  reparations  &  fences  as 
often  as  need  shall  require  during  the  said  terme  (saving  that 
if  the  said  house  or  any  of  the  premises  shall  be  wasted  by 
lire  windes  or  Enemies  without  any  wilfull  default  found  in 
the  said  John  Parker  or  his  servants  then  such  reparations 
shall  be  done  at  the  charges  of  the  said  Richard  Parker)  And 
the  same  so  well  <fc  sufficiently  repaired  &  fenced  the  said 
John  Parker  shall  £  will  in  the  end  of  the  said  terme 
together  wth  a  waine  Avhccles  plough  &  furniture  boate  <fc 
appurtenances  as  good  as  those  hereby  letten  leave  &  yeild 
up  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker. 

Item  that  if  the  said  John  Parker  shall  receive  any  other 
cattell  to  summer  or  winter  on  the  premises  the  said  Richard 
Parker  shall  have  halfe  the  prontts  thereof. 

Item  that  if  any  help  shall  be  att  any  time  during  the  said 
terme  hired  in  planting  hay  tyme  or  harvest  besides  the  said 
John  Parker  <fc  the  said  servants  for  the  mannaging  the 
premises  the  charges  thereof  shall  be  equally  borne  betweene 
the  said  partyes. 

Item  that  all  ordinary  towne  rates  shall  be  equally  borne 
betweene  the  said  partyes. 

Item  that  it  shall  or  may  be  lawfull  to  &  for  the  said 
Richard  Parker  from  time  to  time  to  exchange  &  renew  the 
said  live  stocke  as  good  as  the  old  stocke  or  better  at  any 
time  at  his  owne  discreation. 

Item  that  the  said  John  Parker  shall  &  will  in  the  end  of 
the  said  terme  rcdeliver  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker  the  said 
live  stocke  as  good  for  number  &  kinde  as  the  same  that  is 
now  letten  together  wtu  his  parte  of  the  increase  thereof. 

Item  that  the  heires  executors  administrators  <fc  assignes 
of  each  party  shall  enjoy  like  priveleges  &  bencfitts  &  be 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  247 

equally   &   reciprocally  bound   to  each  other  by  vcrtue  here 
of   as  fully  &   effectually  as  if  their  names  were  punctually 
expressed  in  &  throughout  every  article    in   the   same. 
In  witncssc  <tc. 

Me  JolioiTi  Griffon  dc  civitute  TJristoll  nautor  toner'  tvc. 
p  nobili  War.  in  2001  dat'  3.  20.  1040. 

The  Condicon  of  this  Obligation  is  such  that  if  the  abovc- 
boundcn  John  Grifliii  shall  within  40  dayes  next  after  his 
arivall  in  England  personally  appcare  before  the  right  hon 
orable  the  abovesaid  Earlc  of  Warwickc l  to  answerc  all 
such  matters  as  shall  be  objected  against  him  the  said  John 
(Jriflin  in  any  Course  of  Lawc  or  justice  as  the  said  Earlc  of 
War vncke  shall  advise  &  direct  or  otherwise  and  shall  abide 
his  Lorpps  direction  &  commandment  in  all  things  concerning 
the  same  matters  and  not  depart  away  from  his  Lorpps  presence 
or  attendance  upon  his  Lorpp  without  his  leave  &  dismission 
then  this  obligation  shall  be  voyd  &  of  none  effect  or  els  it 
shall  be  &  remainc  in  full  power  strength  &  vertuc.  [2 — G] 

Me  llobtum  Luker  2  de  [w™&]  in  Nova  Anglia  tener'  &c.  Gubcr- 
nator  Assistant  &  Societat  DC  Lc  Mattachusetts  bay  in  Nova 
Anglia  in  30*  dat'  nt  supra.  Condieoned  for  the  said  Grillins 
apparance  ut  supra. 

[147]  To  the  Honoured  Governor  £  Cort  Assembled 
The  humble  peti"con  of  DANIELL  IIowE.3 

Shcwcth  that  heretofore  the  Towne  of  Lynne  assigned  unto 
yor  petieoncr  00  acres  of  land  lying  in  the  outmost  of  the 

1  The  Karl  of  Warwick  was  nftcr-  2  If  the  Governor  of  Massachusetts 
wards  one  of  the  commissioners  for  was  to  have,  any  such  hunt  for  Robert 
regulating  the  affairs  of  the  West  Indies  Luker  as  I  have  had,  his  "  conditioned 
and  the  Colonies  in  America,  and  was  for  the  said  Griffin's  appearance"  must 
in  other  ways  interested  in  New  Eng-  have  been  worth  but  little.  I  can  find 
land  and  the  other  parts  of  the  New  the  name  mentioned  nowhere,  and  sup- 
World.  (Cf.  Winthropin  various  places.)  pose  that  he,  too,  was  a  sailor  of  Bristol. 
Of  Griflin  I  have  not  found  anything.  8  Daniel  Howe  may  or  may  not  have 
It  is  tantalizing  to  meet  everywhere  received  the  ratification  he  wished.  The 
abundant  mention  of  the  ship  "Griffin,"  Records  say  nothing  of  the  matter, 
but  no  word  of  the  sailor.  though  there  is  much  other  mention 


248  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

bounds  of  that  Towne  and  because  there  may  be  doubt 
whether  it  pertcyne  to  the  Towne  or  no  Yor  peticoner  humbly 
praycth  yor  worpp9  to  be  pleased  to  ratify  the  same  lands  to 
him  by  the  Authority  of  this  Cort  and  he  shall  daylie  pray  £e. 


M':  Coy  an  a  Utter  of  Attorney  to  SILVESTER  CALTON  of  Wax- 
risquete  in  Virginia  merchant. 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  whereas  Nathaniel 
Eaton  l  late  of  Cambridge  in  New  England  Master  of  Arts  did 
about  the  8th  day  of  August  last  past  receive  of  me  John  Cogan 
of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  the  summc  of  one  hundred 
pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  to  be  by  him  the  said 
Nathaniel  returned  unto  one  Roger  Clay  factor  of  Blackwcll 
hull  as  by  one  of  the  bills  of  exchange  thereof  hereunto  annexed 
appcareth  And  whereas  the  Letter  of  advice  sent  by  the  said 
Nathaniel  unto  one  John  Hobson  merchant  upon  whome  the 
said  bills  were  charged  did  purportc  that  the  said  John  Hob- 
son  should  receive  order  for  discharge  of  the  said  bills  of 
exchange  from  Thcophilus  Eaton  merchant  brother  of  the 
said  Nathaniel  Wch  since  the  said  Thcophilus  hath  disavowed 
&  testifyed  to  sufiicicnt  witnessc  that  he  had  not  nor  would 
give  order  unto  the  said  John  Hobson  for  the  payment  of  the 
said  summc  of  money  accordingly  Whcrby  it  appcareth  that 
the  said  Nathaniel  Eaton  had  not  any  power  to  charge  the 
said  John  Hobson  therewith  Now  Knowc  yee  that  1  the  said 
John  Cogan  doe  hereby  authorize  &  in  my  place  put  my  lov 
ing  ffriend  Silvester  Calton  of  AVaxrisquete  in  Virginia  mer 
chant  my  true  &  luwfull  Attorney  for  me  &  in  my  name  to 
sue  the  said  Nathaniel  by  way  of  Equity  before  the  honoured 
<fe  right  wor11  the  (Governor  <t  other  Magistrates  in  Virginia 

of  Howe,  who  was  a  well-known  man,  *  Some  time   after  this,   Eaton  sent 

being   often    deputy   from    Lynn.      He  from  Virginia  for  his  wife  to  join  him. 

moved    to   Southampton,    L.   I.,  about  "Whereon,  after  speaking  of  her  friends 

1641,  where  lie  was  one  of  the  earliest  who  desired  that  she  should  remain  in 

settlers,    so   that    the    inference    would  Boston,  Winthrop  remarks,  with  quiet 

be    that   he   did    not    reecive    what   he  joy,   that  "she  went  notwithstanding, 

wanted.  and  the  vessel  was  never  heard  of  atruin." 


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thereby  to  compcll  him  the  said  Nathaniel  to  put  in  sufficient 
caution  unto  the  said  Governor  &  Magistrates  or  some  other 
sufficient  Officer  by  them  authorized,  to  the  summo  of  one 
hundred  &  fifty  pounds  at  the  least  for  answere  of  such 
Dammages  as  may  accrew  unto  me  by  reason  of  the  premises. 
In  witnesse  <fcc 

Coppy  of  the  bill  of  exchange. 

And  I  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr.  Governor  of  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  Mattachusetts  bay  in  New  England  having  seen  these 
presents  sealed  &  delivered  in  my  presence  doe  hereby  certify 
the  same  to  be  the  act  <fc  deed  of  the  said  John  Cogan  In  tes 
timony  whereof  I  have  caused  the  Common  seale  of  our 
Colony  to  be  hereunto  affixed  the  day  &  yeare  abovesaid. 

And  I  T  D  <fcc  having  scene  a  writing  purporting  a  bill  of 
Exchange  signed  by  Nathaniel  Eaton  Master  of  Arts  whereof 
the  writing  above  said  is  a  true  coppy  doe  hereby  at  the  re 
quest  of  John  Cogan  merchant  grant  to  exemplyfie  the  same 
under  the  common  seale  of  our  Colony  the  2Gth  day  of  May 
1G40.  <tc. 

Mr  John  flumfrcy  letts  one  rnesuage  and  ffarmc  called  the 
plnynes  conteyning  by  estimation  ffivc  hundred  acres  of  arra- 
ble  &  wooddy  ground  be  it  more  or  Icsse  and  all  the  fresh  & 
salt  march  thereto  belonging  lying  &  being  within  the  liber- 
tyes  of  Salem  in  New  England  unto  Zachcus  Goold1  of  Lynne 
yeoman  for  10  yeares  from  the  29  Sept.  next.  Rent  900  bush 
els  of  corne  yearely  in  this  manner  400  rye  800  wheat  200 
barley  wth  8  oxen  5  Cowcs  2  hcyfers  &  4  Calves  2  mares. 

[148]  M*  llumfrey  is  to  make  up  of  broken  ground  at  his 
charge  60  acres  in  time  convenient. 

The  cattle  to  be  invcntoryed  <fe  the  like  for  number  kinde 
age  &  quality  to  be  redelivered  M*  Willin  Hawthorne  & 
Richard  Wright  to  inventory  the  same. 

1  Zaccheus  Gould  seems  a  more  com-  if  he  is  the  one  of  Brain  tree,  who  had 

mon  name  than  might  be  supposed,  for  been  of  Lynn,  as  Savage  seems  to  think. 

I   find  four  examples  noted  in  Savage.  Mr.    Humphrey,  one  of  the  assistants, 

Of  this  particular  one  little  is  known,  was  about  to  go  to  England  at  this  time. 

William  Hawthorne,  of  Salem,  we  have  He  sailed  in  1641. 
noted  before,  and  also  Richard  Wright, 


250  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Mr  Ilinnfrcy  to  make  up  all  fences  needful  to  defend  the 
ploughed  ground  &  the  rent  to  repaire  &  make  good  the  same 
<fc  so  deliver  it  up  well  repayred. 

Articles  <fcc. 

Imprimis  that  the  Cattle  and  utensils  demised  &  lettcn 
by  the  said  John  Ilumfrey  unto  the  said  Zachcus  shall 
be  inventoried  &  valued  by  Willin  Hawthorne  gent  and 
Richard  Wright  and  the  inventory  thereof  to  be  hereunto 
annexed. 

Item,  that  the  said  John  Ilumfrey  shall  &  will  at  his  proper 
costs  &  charges  cause  to  be  broken  up  so  much  ground  on  the 
premises  as  shall  make  up  the  ground  already  broken  up 
sixty  acres  in  convenient  time. 

Item,  that  the  said  John  Ilumfrey  shall  &  will  at  his  proper 
cost  &  charges  from  time  to  time  during  the  termo  of  the 
lease  made  betweenc  the  said  partyes  cause  to  be  made  up  all 
new  fences  necessary  for  the  ploughed  ground  on  the  prem 
ises  and  the  same  being  so  made  the  said  Zacheus  Goold 
shall  &  will  from  time  to  time  at  his  proper  costs  &  charges 
well  &  sufficiently  repaire  &  so  repayred  shall  &  will  leave  & 
yield  up  unto  the  said  John  Ilumfrey  his  heires  or  assignes 
in  the  end  of  the  said  tenne  together  wth  all  the  premises  by 
the  said  lease  demised.  In  witnesse  £c.  [3-4.  1-8] 

Richard  Wright  of  Mount  Wollaston  yeoman  bound  to 
Walter  Blackborne  in  1201  Condicon  to  pay  60*  by  5l  every 
halfe  yeare  at  Mf  Blackborncs  house  in  Boston.  [Is.] 

James  Marshall  of  Exon  merchant  consigned  certaine  com 
modities  of  the  value  of  344*  9s.  3d.  unto  John  Cogan  &  George 
Allcockc1  to  take  for  factorage  betwecne  them  what  the 
factorage  was  worth.  Richard  Mansfield  for  Marshall.  M? 
Cogan  tooke  5  p  Centum  ITl  4s.  for  halfe  the  factorage. 
[2-C] 

1  George.  Ak-ocke  was  of  Roxbnry.  etc.  Ho  had  come  in  1630  with  Win- 
He  is  often  mentioned  in  the  Colonial  thmp,  had  been  admitted  freeman  the 
(and  llo.iburif)  Records  as  bcin£  appoint-  next  year,  and  was  representative  several 
ed  to  run  lines,  determine  boundaries,  times.  He  died  towards  the  end  of  1640. 


LECUFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  251 

Dcrmondt  Matthew  1  servant  of  George  Strange  gent  com- 
plaincs  against  his  master  for  that  whereas  the  said  Matthew 
was  to  serve  the  said  George  from  the  Oth  day  of  May  1GC9 
for  six  vearcs  for  the  wages  of  i'oure  pounds  by  the  yeare  and 
a  pigg  to  be  payd  at  every  yeares  end  and  .in  the  end  of  the 
tonne  to  have  a  Convenient  lott  for  his  serviee.  lie  promised 
also  the  said  servant  three  suits  of  apparel  A;  six  shirts.  All 
wch  appeares  by  an  Indenture  &  sufficient  witnesse. 

The  said  George  Strange  hath  not  payd  him  any  wages  nor 
given  him  any  clothes  according  to  his  bargaine.  Also  the 
said  Dcrmondt  Matthew  did  bind  Teg  Mathcw  his  sonne  a 
child  of  i)  yeares  old  apprentice  to  the  said  George  Strange 
for  ten  yeares  from  the  said  Otli  day  of  May  wth  Covenant  to 
keepe  him  two  yeares  at  school  and  the  other  eight  he  was  to 
serve  in  the  same  house  wth  his  ffather  the  said  Dcrmondt 
Matthew.  But  the  said  George  Strange  hath  wthout  the 
consent  of  the  said  Dcrmondt  sold  the  said  T egg  to  one  Mf 
Browne  of  Salem  to  his  the  said  Dermondts  great  grief  of 
heart  £  contrary  to  the  said  Covenant.  And  whereas  the 
said  Dermondt  being  an  ignorant  illittercd  man  <fe  trusting 
upon  the  fa  ire  promises  of  the  said  George  Strange  that  lie 
would  ever  use  him  well  &  shew  him  his  Indentures  as  often 
as  he  would  now  the  said  Dermondt  having  no  chest  nor  box 
to  put  the  said  Indentures  in  they  were  rotted  &  spoyled  in 
his  pocket  before  he  was  aware.  Notwithstanding  the  said 
George  Strange  refuseth  to  let  the  said  Dermondt  or  his 
friends  see  the  said  Indentures  Therefore  the  said  Dermondt 
Matthew  humbly  praycth  the  Court  that  the  said  Indentures 
may  be  shewed  to  the  Court  by  the  [149]  said  George  Strange 

1  Permont  Matthew  and  bis  son  Teg  recommence  his  mr  for  damage  done  him, 

are  not  met  with  in  many  of  the  contem-  &    losse    of    his    time,    &    his    master 

porary  authorities.     The  following  from  was  willed  for  this  time  not  to  correct 

the  Colonial  Record  (vol.  ii.  p.  20)  is  of  him."     The  careful  reader  must  decide 

date  almost  exactly  two  years  after  this  for  himself  if  there   be  connection  be- 

entry  :  "  Dearmont  Mathewe  was  ordered  tween  these  cases.     Matthew  died  before 

to  go  home    to   his  mr.   &    if    he   can  1661,  for  inventory  of  his   estate  (£112 

prove   his  mr  did   beat  him.   wh»jn  hec  l.«.  4<L )  is  found  with  date  Aug.  2,  1661 

came  home  with  order  from  Mr  Deputy,  (£>nJT.  Prob.  Hcc.,  4.  8S). 
his  mr  to  bee  punished  ;  if  not  lieu  is  to 


252 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


&  that  they  may  be  recorded  or  els  that  his  wages  may  be  ap 
pointed  by  the  Court  &  justiee  done  him  in  the  premises.    [Gs.] 


To  the  HONORED  RICHAHD  BKLLINCIIAM  ESQR  deputy  Governor 
J-  to  the  rest  of  the  Magistrates  now  assembled. 

The  humble  peticon  of  THOMAS  GREY  l  of  Marble  head  fisherman 

Shcwcth  that  he  was  heretofore  iustly  fined  &  punished 
for  a  great  offence  in  his  passion  committed  by  drawing 
his  knife  in  the  Court  for  wch  he  hath  ben  very  sorry  A:  is 
much  ashamed  of  it.  He  humbly  prayeth  the  Court  in  regard 
of  his  poverty  to  be  pleased  to  forgive  &  remit  his  fline  im 
posed  upon  him  for  the  said  offence  and  he  shall  ever  pray  for 
you  &  endeavor  by  the  help  of  God  to  live  more  conformably 
to  good  order.  [Is.  6d.  Cipher.'] 

Thomas  Bro \vncll  of  Mount  Wollaston  als  Braintree  Planter 
sells  to  Deodatus  Curtis2  of  Braintree  aforesayd  Planter  for 


1  Thomas  Gray  was  always  in  trouble 
with  the  Government,  both  for  his  own 
behavior  anil  for  that  of  his  friends, 
who  gathered  at  his  house  at  Marble 
Harbor  (which  seems  even  at  that  early 
time  to  have  had  something  of  the  same 
reputation  that  it  enjoys  at  the  present 
day).  He  probably  came  over  in  1626 
with  Iloger  Conant,  perhaps  before.  He 
was  banished  from  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  Colony  very  early  (1630),  his  house 
was  ordered  to  be  pulled  down,  and 
all  persons  were  forbade  giving  him 
.shelter.  Nevertheless,  lie  lived  on 
at  Marble  Harbor,  the  winter  being 
cold  for  a  man  with  no  house,  and 
Governor  "NVinthrop  being  indulgent 
(Width.,  i.  85)  ;  so  in  1638  the  sen 
tence  of  banishment  was  ordered  to  be 
carried  into  ell'ivt.  lie  .still  remained, 
however,  and  the  occasion  of  his  draw 
ing  his  knife  in  court  seems  to  have 
been  the  wind-up  of  some  debauch  at 
his  house.  "  Ralfe  Wainner  is  fined  10 
sh  for  being  at  excessive  drinking  at 


Thorn  :  Grayes  at  Marble  Head,"  and 
"Thorn:  Gray  for  being  drunke,  pro- 
pluming  of  the  name  of  God,  keeping  a 
tipling  house  &  drawing  his  knife  in 
Courte  was  censured  to  be  severely 
whiped  &,  fined  5V'  are  the  entries  in 
the  Record.  There  is  one  more  entry 
recording  a  sentence  for  drunkenness, 
June  2,  1640,  which  may  be  before  or 
after  this  petition.  Otherwise  his  prom 
ise  of  good  behavior  seems  to  have  been 
sincere,  for  he  appears  no  more  in  a 
criminal  or  other  capacity.  lie  was  still 
at  Marblehead  in  1648,  says  Savage. 

It  was  at  this  court,  where  Thomas 
Gray  drew  his  knife,  that  "Thomas 
Lech  ford,  forgoing  to  the  Jewry  &  plead 
ing  wtb  them  out  of  Court,"  was  "  de 
barred  from  pleading  any  mans  cause 
hereafter,  unlessehisowne,  &  admonished 
not  to  presume  to  meddle  beyond  what 
he  shall  be  called  to  by  the  Courte" 
(Mass.  Coll.  Rcc.,  i.  270). 

2  The  names  of  Deodatus  Curtis  mid 
Thomas  Brownell  are  both  noted  in 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  253 

381  One  house  and  one  garden  and  six  acres  of  arable  land  in 
Braintree  aforesaid  parcell  of  the  lands  heretofore  of  Edward 
Raynsford  of  Boston  wth  the  appurtenances  to  him  &  his 
heires  for  ever. 

Thomas  Brownell  is  to  Deliver  unto  the  said  Peodatus  soe 
many  foot  of  planke  £  board  as  will  make  up  the  boards 
in  the  house  1000  foot  presently  —  lying  fonrc  square  to 
the  said  house,  the  land  is  bounded  on  the  common  on  the 
west  part  on  the  lands  of  goodman  Best  on  the  cast  on  the 
lands  of  goodman  I)awrson  on  the  north  and  on  the  lands  of 
Nathaniel  [ft/an£]  on  the  south.  [2s.] 

Myles  Brathwayte1  of  the  Isle  of  Providence  Planter 
makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  James  Oliver2  of  Boston  sur 
veyor  to  receive  of  John  Seavcrne  tayler  31  14.s\  $<L  for 
1121  of  tobacco  at  8d.  a  t,  G  10  1040  and  of  one  that  is  a 
Cooper  of  Hcituate  money  for  104*  of  tobacco  or  els  the  to 
bacco  againc  delivered  him  out  of  goodman  Sweets  celler 
delivered  by  Richard  Newton  And  leaves  him  5001  waight  of 
tobacco  or  thcrabout  to  dispose  for  me  to  my  best  advantage. 


Savage  with  little  addition.     I  suppose  Seavearne,  tailor,  little  is  known   that 

that  Brownell  was  selling  his  property  will  be  of  help  here. 
preparatory  to  moving  to  Portsmouth,          2  Miles  Brathwayte  may  have  been  a 

R.  I.,  where  he  is  mentioned,  1655,  as  member   of  the   church  in  the.  Isle   of 

freeman.    Edward  Raynsford  was  a  well-  Providence,  of  the  Bahamas,  of  which 

known  man  in  Boston.     He  came  with  the  unlucky  end  may  be  read  in  John- 

AVinthrop  in    1630,   and  was  a  deacon  son,  bk.  ii.  ch.  xx.,  and  11"  inthroj),  ii.  33. 

and   ruling   elder   in   the   church.     He  lUchard    Newton,    who    delivered    the 

died  in  16SO.  tobacco  out  of   Goodman  Swecte's   cel- 

1  Thomas  Oliver  brought  with  him  lar  (in  the  Mill  Field,  I  suppose,  near 

to  this  country,  in  1632,  two  sons,  John  Gallop's    Point,    Look    of    Possessions, 

and   James.     I    think   that   the  Oliver  123,  K,  3),  may  be  one  of  the  two  men 

here  mentioned  must  be  John,  for  he  is  of  that  name  who  took   the   freeman's 

the  one  of  the  two  brothers  who  would  oath.     Savage    calls    one   of    Sndbury, 

be  more  likely  to  be   called   surveyor,  and    mentions  his   wife  and   children  ; 

having  been  on  committees  appointed  to  adding  that  he  took  the  oath  in  1645, 

run  lines  or  determine  boundaries,  while  and  again,    1647,   "for  no  other  Rich- 

his  brother  James  (this  year  made  free-  ard   is   heard   of."      It   is   barely   pos- 

man)  was  a  merchant,  and  would  hardly,  sible  that    this   may  be   that    "other 

I  think,   be  called  surveyor.     Of  John  Richard." 


254  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

George  Lnxan l  assignes  &  Mathew  Dove  places  himsclfe 
servant  to  John  Blackleath  of  Salem  for  4  yeares  from  the  1 
of  June  for  4*  a  yeare.  [2s.  6t7.] 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  whereas  I  John 
Throckmorton 2  gent  have  received  831  of  Richard  Parker 
of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  I  doe  hereby  Covenant 
promise  &  grant  to  <fc  wth  the  said  Richard  Parker  that  I  shall 
&  will  pay  unto  the  said  Richard  Parker  his  executors  admr* 
or  assignes  at  or  in  his  dwelling  house  in  Boston  aforesaid 
the  summe  of  twenty  pounds  upon  the  llth  day  of  June  wch 
shall  be  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1G41  and  twenty  pounds 
upon  the  llth  day  of  June  wch  shall  be  in  the  ycarc  of  our 
Lord  1G42.  And  shall  <fc  will  then  deliver  <fc  pay  unto  the 
said  Richard  Parker  his  executors  administrators  or  assignes 
forty  one  goats  every  one  of  them  under  five- 'yeares  of  age 
and  two  ram  goats  each  above  one  yeare  old.  And  whereas  the 
said  Richard  Parker  hath  letten  unto  me  two  Cowes  vizt  one 
blacke  and  the  other  red  to  receive  &  take  the  increase  & 
profitts  of  the  said  blacke  cowe  from  the  first  day  of  May  last 
past  for  &  during  the  terme  of  two  yeares  and  of  the  said  red 
cowe  from  the  10th  day  of  September  next  ensuing  the  date 
hereof  for  <fe  during  the  tcrmc  of  two  yeares  I  doc  hereby 
Covenant  promise  <fe  grant  to  and  with  the  said  Richard 
Parker  that  I  shall  &  will  pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the 
said  Richard  Parker  his  executors  administrators  &  assignes 
at  or  [150]  in  his  dwelling  house  aforesaid  the  summe  of  five 
pounds  by  the  yeare  for  the  increase  &  profitts  of  the  said 
blacke  cowe  &  five  pounds  a  yeare  more  for  the  increase  & 
profitts  of  the  said  red  cowe  And  to  the  true  performance 

1  George  Luxon,  who  is  mentioned  time  after  this,  and  finally  to  Hart- 
several  times  in  the  pages  following,  ford. 

was  master  of  the  "  Fellowship,"  and  2  John  Throckmorton  came  over  in 
was  probably  never  in  New  England  the  same  ship  with  Roger  Williams, 
for  any  length  of  time.  He  appears  with  whom  he  warmly  sympathized. 
in  the  Note-book  generally  as  factor  He  was  with  him  banished  from  the 
for  some  person  or  other.  John  Black-  church  at  Salem,  where  he  lived,  and 
leach  was  a  busy  merchant  of  Salem,  moved  to  Providence.  He  removed  after- 
lie  moved,  however,  to  Boston  some  wards  to  New  Jersev,  arid  died  there. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

of  all  the  promises  I  bynd  me  as  aforesaid  <fe  also  my  heires 
executors  ct  administrators  firmcly  by  these  presents.  Scaled 
wth  my  scale  etc.  June  11  1(>40.  [1-G] 

John  Johnson  l  of  lloxbury  in  N.  E.  yeoman  in  bclialfc  of 
Willm  Perkins  gent  mortgageth  to  Walter  Black  borne  of 
Boston  in  N  E  merchant  six  ac  of  planting  ground  lying  in 
the  Calves  pasture  in  Uoxbnry  leading  to  Dorchester.  Also 
20  acres  lying  in  the  pliiine  in  Roxbiiry  betweene  the  great 
lotls  tt  Hie  fresh  meadowes  And  25  acres  of  the  last  division 
lying  at  the  end  of  Roxbury  bounds  nearc  Pedham. 

Mr  Blackborne  to  convoy  the  same  to  John  Johnson  Josuah 
Hughes  &  Thomas  Lambc  And  they  8  to  become  bound  to 
Mr  Blackborno  in  &c.  for  the  pay  in  t  of  the  annuity.  [5s.] 

Whereas  John  Cognn  merchant  hath  told  me  that  William 
Pester  did  inform  the  Cort  that  1  tooke  three  pounds  a  tunnc 
for  the  freight  of  shott  brought  in  a  ship  wherein  I  was  under 
taker  and  hath  desired  me  to  tcstifye  whether  I  did  take  so 
much  or  no  I  doc  hereby  deny  that  I  tookc  so  much  for  the 
sayd  shott  but  I  did  pay  Mr  Hassard  for  the  freight  of  a  tun 
of  shott  for  my  sclfe  3s.  about  the  same  time  &  so  much  for  a 
tun  I  should  have  taken  &  did  take  &  no  more  2  Witnesse  my 
hand  (4)  10.  1G40. 


Robert  Lewes3  late  of  Tanton  in  New  England  Carpenter 
tunics   over   Willm   Roberts  to  serve  John   Crabtree   or  his 

1  Of  this  John  Johnson,  fortunately  a  minister  in  this  country.     Savage  says 

more  is  known  than  of  the  Yorkshire-  "minister,  Imt  whero  educated  is  un 

man  mentioned  above.      He  was  ono  of  heard."     I  find  in  the  Emmanuel  Reg- 

the  substantial  men  of  Roxbury,  having  ister  at  the  English  Cambridge,  "  1G24. 

come   with    "\Yinthrop.     He   was   often  Wm.  Perkins,  Pensioner,  A.  ]»." 

representative    in    the   General    Con  it.  2  I  can  add  nothing  further  to  ex- 

Joshua  Hughes  (the  name  is  generally  plain  this  business.     Hassard  may  be 

Howes)  was  an  active  merchant  of  the  Thomas  Hazard,   the  ship-carpenter  of 

same  town.    Thomas  Lamb,  also  of  Rox-  P>oston,   though   he   had  by  this  time 

buiy,  came  with  his  wife  and  children  moved  to  Rhode  Island. 

in  the  fleet  with  AVinthrop.     From  the  3  Robert   Lewis,    of   Newbury,    who 

title   of    "gent,"    applied   to   William  camo  toSalrm  in  1635,  may  be  the  mnn. 

Perkins,  I  should  infer  that  though  a  Inquiry  fails  to  add  anything  in  regard 

preacher,  he  had  not  yet  been  ordained  to  John  Crabtree  to  the  note  on  p.  100. 


25G  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

assignes  from  this  time  till  the  Gth  of  December  come  twelve 
moncth  for  41  a  ycarc  quarterly  to  be  payd 

for  51  ui)on  the  1  of  March  1040. 

«fc  for  5l  upon  the  1  of  August  1641. 

[1-6] 

BOSTON  (4).  25.  1G40. 

The  Answcrc  £  Complaint  of  Elizabeth  Cole  wife  of  Willm 
Cole  concerning  a  deed  of  trust  made  by  &  betweene  Francis 
Doughty  her  brother  and  her  sister  Bridget  Doughty  on  the 
behalf  c  of  the  said  Elizabeth  on  the  one  parte  and  her  said 
husband  before  their  marriage  on  the  other  parte 


The  Court  booke  at  IGtZ  a  sheete  102  shcctcs  for  M.r  Eudc- 
cott  commcth  to  G1   IGs.     [G1  IGs.] 
[2*i0o  lines  in  cipher] 

Thomas  Scudamore1  late  of  Westerley  in  the  County  of 
Gloucr  blacksmith  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  [/>/«»<*•]  Haz- 
zard  of  Bristoll  mariner  &  Willm  Prigge  of  Westerley  afore 
said  yeoman  to  sell  tfc  dispose  of  One  mesuage  or  tenement 
wth  an  orchard  A:  garden  lying  in  Westerley  &  to  bring  over 
liis  wife  &  children.  The  lease  is  from  Thomas  Roberts  of 
Westerley  Esqr  to  T  S  for  99  yeares  if  he  &  Ellen  his  wife 
[151]  A  Thomas  their  sonne  or  any  of  them  so  long  live.  lie 
warrants  to  sell  it  for  50l  <fc  to  dispose  thereof  &  to  bring  over 
his  wife  <fc  children  <fe  such  commodities  as  I  shall  by  my 
letter  direct. 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  whereas  I  Thomas 
Scudamore  late  of  Westerley  in  the  County  of  Gloucr  <t  now 
of  Cambridge  in  New  England  blacksmith  stand  possessed  to 
me  <t  assignes  of  £  in  One  messuage  or  tenement  wth  an  or 
chard  &  garden  wlh  the  appurtenances  thereunto  belonging 
lying  in  Westerley  aforesaid  for  the  terme  of  fouerscore  and 

1  Thoinns  Scudamore  may  be  Thomas  vol.  i.,  Appendix,  A.  p.  59).  I  can  find 
Skidmore,  who  is  vaguely  heard  of  in  no  Scudamore  at  all,  and  fear  inquiry  is 
1636  in  connection  with  John  Win-  useless  in  regard  to  Hazzard  of  Bristol, 

fly. 


LKClirORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  XOTE-KOUK.  257 

nyncteene  yeares  from  the  date  of  a  certaine  Ion  so  made 
thereof  unto  me  by  Thomas  Roberts  Esqr  fully  to  be  com- 
plcat  <fc  ended. 

John  Pickering1  of  Pascataquay  in  New  England  ])lantcr 
makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Isacko  Allcvton  merchant  to 
attach  and  bring  backe  Richard  Price  his  servant  who  was  to 
serve  him  for  4  yeares  from  the  2oih  of  Aprill  1(530.  lie  is 
now  umlutifully  departed  his  service  a  tayler  by  liis  trade 
borne  in  Shrewsbury  in  the  County  of  Salop  as  he  hath  sayd 
a  man  of  middle  stature  black  long  haire  black  beard  thin 
faced  of  a  swarthy  color  in  a  tawney  kersy  Doublet  <fc  hose 
wth  ash  colored  points  at  the  knees  a  russett  hat,  to  bring  him 
backc  or  10!  for  his  time.  [!«•] 

[This  note  seems  to  be  set  in  the  very  middle  of  the  letter 
of  attorney.] 

wch  lease  is  dcterminablc  upon  the  Deaths  of  me  the  said 
Thomas  Scidmorc  and  of  Ellen  my  wife  &  Thomas  my  sonne 
as  more  at  large  by  the  said  Lease  appearcth.  Now  Knowe 
yce  that  I  the  said  Thomas  Scidmorc  doc  hereby  constitute  & 
ordeync  my  much  respected  ffriend  Henry  Ilazzard  of  Bristoll 
mariner  my  true  &  lawfull  Attorney  for  me  cv:  in  my  name  to 
contract  to  and  wth  any  person  or  persons  for  the  sale  of  the 
premises  <fc  all  my  right  title  ct  interest  therein  for  fifty 
pounds  &  to  bynd  me  my  Executors  <fc  Administrators  to 
make  any  further  legall  <fe  reasonable  assurance  thereof  as  the 
purchasers  thereof  or  their  Counscll  learned  in  the  law  shall 
advise  or  require  Or  if  my  sayd  Attorney  please  himself c  to 
purchase  the  same  when  lie  shall  see  the  said  Lease  £  premi 
ses  at  the  price  aforesaid  I  authorize  him  to  take  the  said 
Lease  in  his  hands  &  possession  and  1  hereby  promise  upon 

1  Savage    notes   John  Pickering,    of  such  service  as  the  one  hero  spoken  of. 

Portsmouth,    1635,    of   whom   little,   is  I  hope  he  had  better  luck  in  searching 

known,   who  may  be  the  man.     lie  is  for   Price   than    I  have   had.     Thomas 

referred  to  again,  p.  158,  post.     As  for  Hawkins  was  of  course  a  very  different 

Allcrton,  he  was  doubtless  well  known  man  from  the  merchant  (p.  122,  <nt(e)  of 

all  along  the  coast  up  to  Machias,  and  the  sanu;  name.     This  man  was  at  the 

it  would  be  natural  enough  for  a  man  time  a  baker,  and  later  is  said  to  have 

at  Pascattaquay  to  call  on  him  for  any  kept  an  inn. 

" 


258  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

account  <fc  receipt  of  the  said  fifty  pounds  in  manner  herein 
expressed  to  be  imployed  &  disbursed  that  I  my  executors  & 
administrators  shall  <fc  will  make  any  further  Icgall  &  reason 
able  assurance  thereof  unto  him  as  He  or  his  counsel!  learned 
in  the  law  shall  advise  or  require.  And  lastly  for  the  said 
fifty  pounds  I  appoint  the  same  to  be  disposed  in  this  manner 
vizt  for  the  passage  £  transportation  of  my  said  wife  &  our 
Children  from  England  to  this  Country  of  New  England  and 
the  rest  of  the  money  to  be  disposed  of  as  by  my  letters  of 
advice  or  other  direction  I  shall  warrant  him  In  wilnessc 
&c.  [Is.  6cl] 

John  Crabtrcc  of  Boston  ioyner  &  Thomas  Hawkins  of  the 
same  Baker  to  be  bound  to  George  Luxon  in  12l  to  be  payd 
to  him  or  his  assg  upon  the  sixth  of  January  next  at  the 
house  of  Nicholas  Willis1  in  Boston.  [GJ.] 

Griffith  Bowcn2  Willm  Colbron  &  Jacob  Eliott  to  be 
bound  unto  Francis  Kingsmyle  Esqr  Willm  Arundell  Willm 
Fleming  &  George  Waters  merchants  in  2051  to  pay  23oi  to 
them  upon  the  first  day  of  January  next  ensuing  the  date 
hereof  7.  (5)  1G40.  [Is.  (}<L  copayd  Is.  eopayd  Is.] 

A  bond  by  John  Powncs3to  George  Luxon  Nicholas  Brook 
ing4  <fc  John  Morris  in  1G01  Condiconed  for  payment  of  80i 

1  The  Nicholas  Willis  here  spoken  of     merchants  mentioned  were,  I  suppose, 
was  a  mercer  by  trade,  and  his  house     Englishmen,  though  they  may  have  been 
(and  shop  as  well,  I  suppose)  was  just     Virginians  (p.  153, ' jwst). 

off  Dock  Square,  on  Union  Street.     He  3  Inquiry  as  to   John  Downcs    "do 

was,  by  tho  way,  chairman  of  the  jury  Ponte  Bondon  in  Como  Cork"  (p.  158, 

in  the  trial  of  Marmaduke  Pierce  for  post),   merely  results  in   the  following : 

murder,  mentioned  above.  "Bandon    Bridge,    a   market   town    of 

2  Griffith  Bowcn  (also  a,  juryman  in  Cork,  on  the  River  Bandon,  13  in.  from 
the  same   trial)  was  a  Welshman,  who  Cork,  and  136  from  Dublin.     This  town 
lived  for  u  time  in  Roxbury,  but  finally  was  erected  in  1G10  in  the  mid.st  of  an 
returned  to  England.     William  Colbron  impassable  bog  by  Richard  Boyle,  Earl 
and  Jacob    Eliott  were   both  early  set-  of  Cork"  (Capper's  Dictionciry  of  (!rc«t 
tiers  and   well-known    men  in  Boston,  Britain).     See  post,  p.  158. 

being  deacons  of  the  church  there.    Both          *  Of   Nicholas   Brooking   I    find  no 

were  sympathizers  with  Mrs.  Hutchin-  mention,  and  notice  of  John  Morris  is 

son,  although  the   former  was  not  dis-  so  vague  as  to  be  useless  here, 
armed    nor     disfranchised.      The    four 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  250 

within  10  claycs  after  the  arrivall  of  the  Jolin  &  Francis  in 
England  or  Ireland  G.  (5)  1640.     [Is.  M.] 

A  letter  of  Attorney  by  one  of  Plymoth  to  Mr  Isackc 
Allerton  !  agt  a  dutchmaii.  4.  5.  1(540.  [G</.] 

[152]  Thomas  Moulton2  <t  Jane  his  wife  complainc  against 
"Willm  Stidson  <fc  his  wife  in  an  action  of  trespasse  upon  the 
Case. 

The  Complts  say  that  slice  the  said  Jane  being  a  woman  of 
good  name  and  conversation  was  about  nvnc  yeares  since  as 
saulted  by  John  Treble  who  feloniously  did  endeavor  to  ravish 
her  when  she  was  alone  in  an  house  in  the  (Fields  whereupon 
she  crycd  out  &  ran  away  from  him  to  another  house  a  good 
way  of  and  afterwards  proscecuted  against  him  so  that  he  lied 
out  of  this  Jurisdiction  unto  Pascattaquay  &  thence  into  Eng 
land,  that  since  about  halfc  a  yea  re  agone  the  said  [&W.-J 
Stidsons  wife  maliciously  intending  to  take  away  &  Destroy 
the  good  name  of  the  said  .lane  hath  reported  that  the  said 
Juno  did  o\ve  unto  the  said  Treble  bever  or  money  and  sayd 
that  he  had  a  letter  to  receive  and  that  when  he  came  to  aske 
his  o \vnc  meaning  the  said  bever  or  money  then  she  put  that 
Tricke  upon  him  meaning  the  said  accusation  of  Rape  and 
said  she  would  have  him  before  the  Governor  for  it  and 
further  that  the  said  letter  was  to  that  pin-pose  wch  was  a 
false  it  malicious  slander  cast  upon  the  said  Jane  by  the  said 

1  Mr.  Deanc's  note  on  Allerton  snys  :  declaration  or  certificate  in  regard  to  an 

"From   some  evidence  ho  would  seem  Indian  gift  of  land  with  others,  mostly 

to   have  been  a  resident  of  New    Am-  Dutch,  as  "  Isaaek  Allerton,  of  Suffolk." 

sterdam    in    1G43  ;  and  in  a  document  [See  Dt»'">;iciifs  rc.I<ifi»g  to  flic  Colonial 

recorded   in   the    Old    Colony  llccw-'ls,  IIi*tnri/  of  A'vr  York,  i.  140,  191,192, 

bearing   date    27th    October,    1G4G,    he  G07,  599.]    Allerton  died  in  New  Haven 

styles   himself  as  'of  New  Amsterdam  Feb.  12,  1058. 

in  the  province  of  New  Netherlands'"          2  The  names  of  Thomas  Moulton  and 

(Bradford,  p.  300,  note}.     In  1642  his  William  Stidson  are  known  in  connec- 

naine  is  found  among  the  "  eight  men  "  tion  with    other   matters,    but   perhaps 

of   New  Amsterdam,  looking  curiously  this  particular  affair  is  not  worth  much 

out  of  place  among  the  strangely  spelled  inquiry.     There  is  no  trace  of  it  in  the 

names  of  his  Dutch  friends.     Later  it  Colonial  Records  or  in  Wintlirop. 
is  signed  (at  Fort  Nassau,   1G51)   to  a 


Stidsons  wife  to  the  great  hurt  of  the  good  name  oi'  Hie  said 
Jane  A:  much  disquiet  A;  contention  betwecnc  the  Pits,  to  the 
damage  of  the  Fits  xl. 

and  d'ul  also  deelare  the  same  before  many  persons  it 
es}>ecially  Mercy  Baster  James  Browne  &  John  Lawrence  and 
at  a  time  when  some  Difference  came  bchvcene  the  said  Jane 
and  the  said  Mercy  Baster  &  the  wife  of  the  said  Lawrence 
ncare  James  Brownes  house  at  Charlestowne  Jane  Moulton 
meeting  wth  Will"1  Stidsons  wile  ncere  unto  the  house  &  in  the 
presence  of  James  Browne  of  Cliarlestownc  did  askc  the  said 
Stidsons  wife  what  was  the  matter  betweene  John  Treble  and 
her  the  said  Jane  the  said  Stidsons  wife  answered  that  that 
was  best  knowne  to  God  it  her  the  said  .Janes  conscience  the 
said  Jane  replyed  it  secmes  you  knowe  and  therefore  1  pray 
you  tell  how  it  was  whereupon  she  sayd  that  the  said  Jane 
did  owe  unto  the  said  Treble  bever  or  money  and  that  they 
had  a  letter  to  demand  it  of  her  and  further  that  when  the 
said  Treable  came  to  askc  his  ownc  then  she  put  that  tricke 
upon  him  and  sayd  she  would  have  him  before  the  Governor 
for  attempting  to  ravish  her  and  that  the  said  letter  was  to 
that  purpose  or  words  to  that  effect.  Then  the  said  James 
Browne  asked  the  said  Stidsons  wife  how  long  time  a  gone  that 
was  that  that  letter  was  sent  she  said  seven  ycare  agone  why 
then  sayd  the  said  Browne  was  it  not  spoken  of  till  now  she 
rcplyed  because  the  said  Jane  was  a  member  <t  he  the  said 
Klias  was  then  none  he  thought  she  should  be  believed  &  not 
lice  nay  that  is  not  well  sayd  the  sayd  Browne  for  an  honest 
man  that  lives  in  the  feare  of  God  is  to  be  believed  as 
soone  as  a  member  but  where  is  the  letter  sayd  he?  the  said 
Stidsons  wife  answered  that  it  was  sent  backc  into  England 
who  had  the  said  letter  she  said  Elias  Mavcrieke  then  sayd 
the  said  Browne  But  what  doth  this  amount  now  how  comes 
it  to  passe  that  this  is  now  spoken  of  said  the  said  Browne  I 
doe  not  knowe  savd  the  said  Stidsons  wife  it  is  nothing  to  me. 
And  this  Conference  was  about  halfe  a  yeare  since.  [Is.  (W.J 

The    humble    petition    of   Thomas    Moulton    shcweth    that 
whereas  heretofore  the  wor11  Mlf  Nowell  did  divers  tymes  put 


LECHFOllirS   M  AX  T  SCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  201 

yor  peticoner  off  from  having  a  warrant  against  Willm  Stid- 
son  ct  his  wife  for  wrong  done  to  yor  peticoncrs  wife  and  bad 
trespassed  yor  peticoner  in  his  medow  "-round  neare  100  pole 
long  wch  be  complayed  of  to  biin  but  bud  no  remedy  the  said 
Mf  Xowcll  turning  to  other  conference  Yor  poore  petitioner 
was  much  grieved  &  in  liis  passion  at  a  neighbours  house sayd 
some  misbesecming  words  of  injustice  against  AK  Nowell  lor 
\vrh  he  bath  since  humbled  himself  to  him  k.  craved  forgive 
ness  &  so  doth  now  againe  beseech  yor  worshipps  to  forgive 
him  &  to  discharge  your  said  peticoner  of  the  recognizance 
taken  before  M?  Nowell  bimselfe  [153]  <fc  some  other  old 
matter  that  came  in  upon  this  tor  his  apparancc  at  the  Court 
thereabout  <t  the  rather  because  that  the  man  that,  heard  the 
said  words  hath  given  out  x  —  p  that  yor  peticoner  shall  be 
whipt  ct  he  is  thereby  so  much  terrify ed  that  he  cannot  wth 
ehcereftilnesse  goo  about  his  busincsse  or  rest  qnictt  a  suffi 
cient  punishment  to  him.  And  yor  peticoner  shall  according 
to  bis  duty  pray  for  yor  wor1'3  [Is.] 

Me  Ricum  Parker  dc  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  mercatorem 
tenor'  £e.  Thome  Fowle1  Armigero  in  4001  daf  25  Decembris 
1089 

Condiconod'to  pay  205  upon  the  lift  of  March  wch  shall  be 
Anno  Dmi  1040.  [1.9.  Cipher.] 

This  Indenture  made  the.  seventh  day  of  July  Anno  Dmi  1040. 
Bvtweene  GRIFFITH  BOWKN  of  Boston,  in  New  England 
gent  of  the  one  parte  And  WILLIAM  COLBRON  of  Boston 
aforesaid  gent  and  JACOB  ELIOTT  of  the  same  planter  of  the 
of  her  parte 

Witnesscth  that  the  said  fUriQlth  I'owen  (for  in  (Consid 
eration  that  the  said  William  Colbron  and  Jacob  Elliott  at 

1  Thomas    Fowlr,    often    mentioned  He  became  involved  in    the    complica- 

in    subsequent  jntges  of  the  Note-book,  tions    about    D'Aulnay   and    La   Tour, 

was   a    \vell-kno\vn    merchant    of    H<>s-  which  we  cannot  IIOJM'  to  nnravcl  here, 

ton.     Savage  says  he  canx^  over  Ix-loi'o  and    in    certain    religions    controversies 

in.°)5.      He  was  at  any  rate  allowed  to  (Dr.   Child;    see    U'hi/h.,  ii.   201,  205, 

le  an    inhal  itant    of    Uoston   in    lOW.  321). 


262  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

the  special!  instance  and  request  of  the  said  Griffith  Bowen 
together  wth  him  and  for  him  stand  bounden  unto  Francis 
Kingsmill  Esqr  Willm  Arundell  William  Flemming  and 
George  Waters  merchants  in  one  obligation  or  bond  of  the 
snmmc  of  two  hundred  sixty  and  five  pounds  bearing  date 
the  Day  of  the  Date  of  these  presents  Condiconed  for  the  pay 
ment  of  the  siunme  of  two  hundred  thirty  &  live  pounds  unto 
them  or  any  of  them  their  or  any  of  their  Executors  adminis 
trators  or  assignes  upon  or  before  the  first  day  of  January 
next  ensuing  the  date  of  the  said  obligation)  hath  granted 
bargained  and  assigned  and  by  these  presents  doth  grant  bar- 
gaine  <fc  assigne  unto  the  said  Willm  Colbron  and  Jacob 
Eliott  all  those  twenty  five  head  of  cattell  wch  were  bought 
by  the  said  Griffith  Bowen  of  George  Luxson  ffactor  for  the 
said  Obligees  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  Cattell  unto  the 
said  Willm  Colbron  and  Jacob  Elliott  their  executors  adminis 
trators  and  assignes  Provided  allways  that  if  the  said  Griffith 
Bowen  his  heires  executors  administrators  or  assignes  shall 
well  and  truly  pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the  said  Francis 
Kingsmill  Willm  Arundell  Willm  Fleming  and  George  Waters 
or  any  of  them  their  or  any  of  their  executors  administors  or 
assignes  the  said  sumnie  of  two  hundred  thirty  and  five 
pounds  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  said  Obligation  or  Con- 
dicon  thereof  then  this  present  grant  bargaine  &  assignement 
shall  be  voyd  A  of  none  effect  or  els  it  shall  remainc  <fc  be 
in  full  power  strength  As  vertue.  In  witncsse  whereof  the 
partyes  abovesaid  have  hereunto  interchangeably  sett  their 
hands  &  scales  the  Day  &  yeare  first  abovewritten.  [2-G  r  a 
bushell  of  corne.] 

1.  \Vheras  l  Mr  Trcworthy  bought  a  boate  of  scavcn  tun  or 
thereabout  of  M'  Thomas  Parches  1  alleadge  that  he  under 
stood  how  old  the  boate  was  and  agreed  to  give  25t  for  it  and 
2.  in  the  bargaine  being  made  at  Paseattaway  at  a  house 
called  Nequickanamnickc  then  Mr.13  Masons  I  was  to  have  the 

1  I  su]»]»osc  that  tliis  is  written  by  with  John  Treworthy  about  this  same 
Thomas  Purchas,  of  Pagiseott,  who,  it  boat  that  is  mentioned  by  Lechfoid 
may  be  remembered,  luul  some  trouble  (ante,  }>.  84). 


LECIIFORD'S   MAXTHCRi 

boalo  within  8  daycs  to  transports  UK?  home  wth  one  man  of 
Mr.  Treworthys  &  then  also  \vth  the  boate  to  receive  the 
money. 

8.  The  bargaine  was  made  about  the  midst  of  July  IGoG  I 
was  forced  to  stay  myself c  &  3  men  a  moiicth  at  charges  ex 
pecting  the  boate  to  carry  us  home  whereby  .1  lost  the  labour 
of  my  men  for  5  weekes  in  the  midst  of  hay  harvest  so  that 
my  Cattell  suffered  much  thereby  besydes  my  losses  otherwise. 

4.  I  was  put  to  charges  of  4J  for  our  transportation  home 
at  that  tyino  wheras  we  were  to  have  had  that  boate  to  have 
gone  home  in  wthout  that  charge. 

5.  It  appeareth  that  the  money  being  25  at  first  &  the  said 
4l  <t  my  other  charges  for  me  &  8  men  of  5l  in  all  84}  hath 
ben  deteyned  4  y cares  wch  might  in  way  of  merchandize  have 
benelittcd   me    in   that  tymc  so  much  more  so  that  I  may 
iustly  say  my  dammage  is  G81  which  I  leave  to  yor  worthy 
Consideration, 

[154]  I  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdicon 
of  the  Mattachusctts  Bay  in  New  England  Doc  hereby  certify 
unto  all  manner  of  persons  whome  it  may  conccrne  that  Ed- 
wnrd  Hall1  late  of  the  parish  of  Jlenborough  in  the  County 
of  Glouccstei\carpcnter  and  now  of  Duxbury  in  New  England 
sonnc  of  Francis  Hall  late  of  Henborough  aforesaid  yeoman 
Deceased  as  appeareth  unto  me  by  his  ownc  oath  &  the  oath 
of  James  Smith  marriner  is  now  at  the  making  hereof  in  full 
life  and  health.  In  testimony  whereof  at  the  request  of  the 
said  Edward  Hall  I  have  caused  the  Common  Scale  of  our 
Colony  to  be  hereunto  affixed  the  fifteenth  day  of  July  in  the 
sixteenth  yeare  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Soveraignc  Lorde  Charles 
now  King  of  England  cvc.  Annoq*  Dmi  1040.  [2-G] 

That  Sarah  Hubbard  wife  of  Edmund  Hubbard  of  Hingham 
in  New  England  sometime  wife  of  John  Lyford  Clerke  some 
time  Minister  at  Levclegkish  neare  Laughgaid  in  the  County 
of  Ardmagh  Deceased  is  alive  £c.  [A  writing  of  advise  6tZ.] 

1  This  is  not  the  Edward  Hall  men-     bury   as   early   as    1636,    .and   later   of 
tioncd  above  ()>.  139)  as  servant  of  Mr.      Bridge  water,  and  then  of  Rehoboth. 
llieluml   Saltonstall.     He:  was  of  Dux- 


204  LLC1IF01WS   MAXUSCIilPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

BOSTON  15  Julii  1040. 

Upon  sight  of  this  my  first  bill  of  exchange  my  second  ct 
third  not  being  payd  I  pray  you  pay  unto  James  Smith  mar- 
rincr  or  his  assignes  the  summe  of  ten  pounds  &  ten  shillings 
currant  money  of  England  wch  is  for  so  much  in  Commodities 
hecre  received  of  him  to  the  use  of  myselfe  &  my  brother  John 
Hall  late  of  llenborough  in  the  County  of  Gloucester  tayler 
sonnes  of  Francis  Hall  late  of  the  same  yeoman  Deceased. 
I  pray  make  good  payment  <fc  charge  it  to  the  account  of  the 
said  John  Hall  as  by  advice.  So  1  rest 

Yor  loving  Friend 

EDWARD  HALL. 

To  my  very  loving  friends  Ed\vard  Stokes  of  Charlcton  in 
the  parish  of  Hcnborongh  aforesaid  yeoman  &  John  Taunton 
late  of  Henborough  aforesaid  husbandman  Executors  of  the 
last  will  &  Testament  of  the  said  Francis  Hall  or  to  either  of 
them. 

The  Commodities  received  2  barrells  of  beife  at  403 

p  peece 4l 

Item  ;J  barrells  of  oatmeale  at  U3   p  bushell      .     .     .     .  31   158 

Item  two  peices  flanuing  of  63  yardes  at  Sd      ....  2      1 

[2-G.  27°  Julij.  The  ship  called  the  Mary  Rose  about  one 
of  the  Clocke  riding  at  Anchor  before  Charles  Townc  was 
blown  ii])  wherein  among  other  marriners  &  seamen  the  said 
James  Smith.] 

Me  Wm  Bevan 1  dc  Civitatc  Bristoll  mercatorcm  tener 
Thome  Dudley  Ar  Gubcrnator  de  le  Mattachusetts  in  Nova 
Anglia  in  mille  libris  Dat  17  die  Julii  1G  Carol!  1040.  [Is.] 

The  Condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  whereas  the 
aboveboundcn  Willm  Bcviu  hath  lately  bought  of  Robert 
Saltonstall  gent  Ccrtaine  peeccs  of  Iron  Ordinance  that  is  to 
say  two  Demy  Culvcrins  of  the  weight  of  three  thousand  one 

1  The  nnme  Bovans  is  found  in  New  but  it  is  unlikely  that  this  man  was  ever 
England  towards  the  end  of  the  century  ;  in  New  England  for  any  length  of  time. 


LECIIFORD'S   MAXL'SCttirr  XOTE-llUOK.  2G5 

liiindrod  fifty  six  pounds  a  pooce  for  the  |>n>prr  use  and  ser 
vice  of  him  the  said  Willni  IJrvin.  If  therefore  tin;  said  Willm 
IJevin  shall  not  sell  or  putt  oft'  the  said  peoees  of  Oniinanee 
or  cither  of  them  to  any  [155]  person  or  persons  not  being  the 
subject  or  subjects  of  our  Soveraigne  Lorde  King  Charles 
then  &c.  [Is.] 

Nos  Johem  Squire1  dc  Attamciiticus  in  Nova  Anglia  Pisca- 
torcm  NicluTm  Squire  de  eadem  piscatorcm  <fc  Sampson  Anger 
de  eadem  in  Piscatorcm  toner  Thome  Foule  Ar  in  GO*  dat  21 
(">)  11)40. 

Condition,  That  if  the  abovcboundcn  John  Squire  Nicholas 
Squire  Sampson  Anger  or  any  of  them  their  or  any  of  their 
hcires  executors  or  administrators  shall  well  and  truly  pay 
and  deliver  imto  the  abovenamed  Thomas  Foule  his  executors 
administrators  or  assigncs  so  much  well-condiconed  and  mer 
chantable  dry  codd  fish  at  the  rate  of  fourcteenc  shillings  the 
Kentall  or  in  default  thereof  so  much  money  aboard  such 
vcssclls  or  shippcs  at  or  neare  the  Isle  of  Sholcs  or  Pascat- 
taway  in  New  England  before  the  first  day  of  July  next  ensuing 
the  Date  hereof  as  shall  fully  satisfy  and  countervayle  all  such 
goods  «fe  commodities  as  the  said  Thomas  Foule  his  execu 
tors  administrators  or  assignes  shall  at  any  time  or  times 
before  the  said  first  day  of  July  upon  request  of  the  said  John 
Nicholas  &  Sampson  or  any  of  them  their  or  any  of  their 
executors  administrators  or  assignes  deliver  unto  them  or  any 
of  them  at  such  prices  and  rates  as  they  shall  agree  upon. 
[Is.  Gt7.] 

Me  Thoman  Foule  de  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  Ar  tener  £e. 
Join  Squire  Nicholas  Squire  el;  Sampson  Anger  in  001  dat  21 
July  1040. 

That  if  the  abovcbonndcn  Thomas  Foule  his  heires  execu 
tors  administrators  or  assigncs  or  any  of  I  hem  shall  from 
time  to  time  take  and  buy  or  cause  lo  be  taken  it  bought 

1  Of  the  Squires  of  Agamenticus  I  freeman  1652,  and  constable  1655.     The 

find  no  satisfactory  mention.     Sampson  name  is  spelled  Al^er  more  often,  appar- 

Anger,  however,  is  noted  in  Savage  as  cntly,  than  either  Anger  or  Auger, 
on    the   grand  jury  at   York  in   1G49, 


LECUl'OliD'^  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.    ' 

of  tlic  abovesaid  John  Nicholas  &  Sampson  their  execu 
tors  administrators  or  assignes  such  tt  so  much  well-con- 
diconed  and  merchantable  dry  codd  fish  as  they  or  any  of 
them  shall  cure  dresse  and  provide  at  the  rate  of  i'ourtcene 
shillings  the  kentall  A:  receive  the  same  into  some  vcssells  or 
shippcs  at  or  neare  the  Isle  of  Sholcs  or  Pascattaway  in  New 
England  Ijefore  the  first  day  of  July  next  ensuing  the  date 
hereof  either  with  tt  for  redy  money  or  in  Default  thereof 
goods  tt  commodities  at  the  prices  tt  rates  as  they  shall  agree 
upon.  Then.  [Is.  Ot/.] 

Samuel  Freeman  l  of  Watertowne  in  N.  E.  g.  makes  a  letter 
of  Attorney  to  Andrew  Walker  Citizen  tt  tallow  chandler  of 
London  vers  Willm  Clcrke  ttc. 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  whereas  Willm 
Clcrke  Cittizen  and  Skinner  of  London  standetji  bound  unto 
me  Samuel  Freeman  now  of  Watertowne  in  New  England  ct 
late  of  Mawlyn  in  the  County  of  Kent  gent  in  one  bond  or 
obligation  of  eight  hundred  pounds  Dated  the  second  day  of 
November  in  the  twelveth  yeare  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Sove- 
raigue  Lord  Charles  by  the  grace  of  God  King  of  England  ttc 
Annoijr  Dili  IGoO.  Conditioned  for  a  surrender  of  a  certaine 
coppihold  Cottage  or  Tenement  orchard  and  garden  and  two 
acres  <t  halfe  of  land  wth  the  appurtenances  in  Chcswicke  in 
the  County  of  Midd  to  be  made  by  the  heire  or  heires  of 
Elizabeth  Clcrke  late  wife  of  the  said  Willm  Clerke  unto 
Robert  Cogan  of  Chcswicke  aforesaid  Esqr  in  such  manner 
and  form  tt  for  saving  harmlesse  me  the  said  Samuel  and  my 
heires  as  in  and  by  the  Condition  indorsed  on  the  said  bond 
is  expressed  as  more  at  large  in  tt  by  the  said  bond  tt  Condi- 
con  thereof  it  doth  tt  may  appeare.  Now  Knowc  yee  that  I 
for  divers  good  Causes  and  Considerations  me  thereunto 
moveing  have  granted  and  assigned  and  by  these  presents 
doe  grant,  tt  assigne  the  said  bond  and  all  profitts  advan 
tages  tt  money  thereby  to  be  recovered  nnto  Andrew  Walker 
Cittizen  tt  Tallow  chandler  of  London  To  have  and  to  hold 

1  Samuel  Freeman,  of  Watertown,  had  home  to  Engbiul  shortly  after  this,  airl 
probably  come  with  Winthrop,  but  went  there  died,  as  it  ib  reported. 


LECIIF01WS   MAXUSCJUPT  NOTE-HOOK.  207 

receive  it  perceive  the  said  bond  profit  ts  advantage;;  it  money 
thereby  to  bo  recovered  unto  liiin  [156J  tlio  said  Andrew 
Walker  his  hcires  it  Assignes.  And  further  for  Hint  end  & 
purpose  1  doe  hereby  make  ordeync  constitute  and  in  my 
stead  it  place  by  these  presents  put  and  appoint  the  said 
Andrew  Walker  my  true  and  lawfull  Attorney  irrevocable 
for  me  and  in  my  name  but  to  the  proper  use  of  the  said 
Andrew  Walker  his  hcires  and  assignes  to  sue  for  recover 
and  receive  of  it  from  the  said  Willm  Clerke  his  hcires  execu 
tors  and  administrator  the  said  eight  hundred  pounds  giving 
and  granting  unto  my  said  Attorney  my  full  power  and 
Authority  in  execution  of  the  premises  for  me  and  in  my 
name  to  arrest  sue  impleade  imprison  condemnc  and  out  of 
prison  to  deliver  and  plead  proeessc  it  prosecutions  for  me 
tt  in  my  name  to  susteyno  it  maintcyne  in  any  Cort  or  Oorts 
and  before  what  Judges  or  Magistrates  soever  and  to  compound 
and  agree  and  upon  the  Reeoverys  and  receipts  in  that  bchalfc 
acquittances  or  other  sufficient  Discharges  for  me  and  in  my 
name  to  make  seale  it  deliver  and  if  need  be  satisfaction 
upon  record  to  acknowledge  and  also  the  said  bond  or  obliga 
tion  to  Cancell  &  deliver  up  And  Attorney  or  Attorneys  one 
or  more  under  him  to  doc  the  premises  to  substitute  and 
revoke  And  further  to  doe  say  afiirmc  procure  it  cause  to  he 
done  all  it  every  other  matter  and  thing  whatsoever  wch  in  or 
about  the  premises  shall  be  requisite  or  needful  in  as  large  it 
ample  manner  it  forme  as  1  might  or  could  doc  mysclfc  if  1 
were  personally  present  Ratifying  confirming  it  allowing  all 
it  whatsoever  mv  said  Attorney  shall  lawfully  doc  or  cause 
to  be  done  in  or  about  the  execution  of  the  premises  or  any 
of  them.  In  witncssc  whereof  I  have  hereunto  put,  my  hand 
<t  seale  the  Twenty  second  day  of  July  in  the  sixteenth 
yeare  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  by  the 
grace  of  God  King  of  England  Scotland  France  it  Ireland 
Defender  of  the  Faith  itc  Annoqr  Dili  1040.  [o-4] 

Francis  Willoughby1  of  Charlestowne  in  N.  E.   merchant 
&  Nicholas   Parker  of   Boston  in    N.  E.  g.  to  be  bound  to 

1  Francis  "\Villoughby  had  come   to     and  was  already  well  known.     He  was 
New  England  two  or  three  years  before,     representative  in  1G42  and  twice  after- 


LKCIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Captaino  Timothy  Thonihill  in  liifty  pounds  —  to  be  payd  at 
Mf  Winthrop's  house  in  B  1  Febr  next.  A  mortgage  of 
the  Tobacco  &  a  Counterbond. 

Will  in  Hales  Planter  assures  the  tobacco  to  them  for 
security.  [4s.] 

I  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the 
Mattachusctts  Bay  in  New  England  having  seen  these  presents 
signed  scaled  &  delivered  in  my  presence  by  the  abovcsaid 
Samucil  Freeman  to  the  use  of  the  abovemcntioned  Andrew 
Walker  doe  hereby  Certify  the  same  to  be  the  Act  and  deed 
of  the  said  Samuel  Freeman.  In  testimony  whereof  At  the 
request  of  the  said  Samuell  I  have  caused  the  Common  scale 
of  our  Colony  to  be  hereunto  affixed  the  twenty  second  da)' 
of  July  aforesaid. 

Nos  Wm  Cole  de  Wcymouth  in  N  A  planter  &  Jacobus 
Smith  dc  N  A  prd  p  tenor'  Capitando  T.  T.  in  30*  dated  25 
Julii  1G40  Condiconed  to  pay  151  G3  1  Febr  px  at  Ml;  Winthrops 
house  in  Boston.  [!«.] 

[157]  Nos  Edmun  Hull  de  Boston  in  N  A  gen  Willm  John 
son  dc  cadem  plantator  Ricm  Cooke  de  eadem  scissor  et 
Arthur"1  Perry  l  de  eadem  scissor  tenor  <fcc  Capitando  T.  T.  in 
401  dat  25  Julii  1G40.  Condiconed  to  pay  [blank]  1  1  Febr  px 
at  or  in  M?  Winth  house  in  Boston.  [Is-] 

A  Case.  A  servant  retcynes  an  Attorney  in  his  Masters 
name  &  wth  his  consent  to  sue  It  I)  for  money  due  to  the 
master  for  goods  bought  out  of  his  shop  by  the  said  R  I)  in 
wch  suit  the  Attorney  expendes  money  &  prsecutes  wth  effect. 
So  The  suit  is  upon  Record  betwecne  the  said  Master  <t  the 

wards.     Later  he  was  chosen  an  assis-  I  take  to  have  been  a  Virginia  planter  ; 

t.int,  anil  in  1<565  was  elected  Deputy-  he  was   not  a  New  Englander.     These 

Governor,    which   ollioo    he   held   until  two    men    ran     hardly    he    identified. 

his  death  in  1(571.     It  may  be  a  stretch  James  Smith,  of  Weymouth,  is  merely 

of  imagination  to  suppose  Captain  Tim-  noted  by  Savage,  but  nothing  more, 
othy  Thonihill  to  be  Captain  Thomas          l  For   Puchard    Cooko    and    Arthur 

Thoriicll,  a  transient    resident,    thinks  Perry,  see  ante,  p.  59  and  note. 
Suvuge,  who  died  16GO.     William  Hales 


7, EC II FORD'S   MANUSCRIPT   NOTE-BOOK.  209 

said  Debtor  <t  for  the  goods  of  the  said  master  and  that  by  his 
consent.  The  Question  is  although  the  servant  did  promise 
io  pay  the  Attorney  all  due  fees  <fc  charges  in  case  lie  hath 
not  p<!  the  same,  whether  the  Attorney  may  not  recover  the 
said  fees  <t  charges  at  his  election  of  either  the  said  master 
or  servant. 

1  conceive  this  case  to  bo  very  clearc  &  that  the  master  is 
bound  both  in  Law  &  equity  to  pay  the  Attorneys  bill.  Jo. 
Winthrop  5.  25.  1040. 

Now  1  can  depose  upon  my  oath  that  remaines  due  to  me 
for  charges  expended  &  for  my  due  fees  in  the  said  suit  23s  4d 
for  wch  1  have  the  hand  <t  promise  of  the  servant  to  my 
booke  in  England. 

Mr  Thomas  Barnardiston  against  Mr  Thomas  Weston l  in 
an  accon  of  debt  for  031  14?  [3s.  4J.] 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  wheras  by  vcrtuc  of 
the  within  written  Letter  of  Attorney  I  Thomas  Lcchford  one 
of  the  Attorneys  within  named  caused  processc  to  be  served 
on  the  goods  of  the  within  mentioned  Thomas  Weston  in  the 
name  of  the  within  written  Thomas  Barnardiston  for  the  debt 
within  specifycd  and  afterwards  by  Direction  of  John  Win- 
throp  l']s(jr  the  said  Thomas  Weston  ct  1  mysclfe  on  the 
behaife  of  the  said  Thomas  Barnardiston  submitted  the  said 
cause  to  the  Arbitrcmcnt  &  Determination  of  Samuel  Mav- 
crickegont  and  Capt.  Edward  Cibones  Arbitrators  indifferently 
chosen  betwccne  us  whereupon  the  said  Arbitrators  upon 
hearing  and  Consideration  of  the  said  Cause  did  in  writing 
under  their  hands  award  that  the  said  Thomas  Weston  should 
deliver  unto  me  to  the  use  of  the  said  Thomas  Barnardiston 
soe  much  well  conditioned  merchantable  leafe  tobacco  wth  caskc 
at  Gd  the  pound  as  will  amount  to  the  said  principal!  debt  <fc 

1  Thomas  "Weston   I   suppose  to    bo  other  person  of  the  namo  is  mentioned 

the    London   merchant  who   was   inter-  in  the  curly  history  of   New  Englan  1. 

ested  in  the  planting  of  Weymouth  in  Thomas   Barnardiston  1  know  nothing 

1(522.     He  is  said  to  have  died  at  Bris-  of,  and  suppose  from  the  fact  that  Lech- 

to], — 1  suppose  at  the  storm  of  the  town  ford   acts   as  attorney  for  him  that  lie 

by  Maurice  and  Rupert  in   1613.     No  was  at  this  time  in  England  or  Virginia. 


270  LECHFORD'S   MA  Xir SCRIPT   XOTE-BOOK. 

bill  &  that  thereupon  I  should  in  the  name  of  the  said  T  B 
release  the  said  Thomas  Weston  of  the  said  debt  <v,  bill  there 
of  within  mentioned.  Now  1  the  said  Thomas  Lechford  doe 
hereby  acknowledge  that  I  have  received  of  the  said  Thomas 
Weston  the  snmme  of  two  thousand  five  hundred  forty  eight 
pounds  of  well  conditioned  merchantable  leafe  tobacco  at  the 
rate  of  0(!  the  pound  in  full  discharge  of  the  said  debt  <fr  bill 
And  therefore  in  performance  of  the  said  award  and  by  vertue 
of  the  said  Letter  of  Attorney  I  the  said  Thomas  Lcchford 
doc  hereby  in  the  name  it  for  and  on  the  hchalfc  of  the  said 
Thomas  Uarnardiston  remise  release  and  forever  quitt  claymc 
unto  the  said  Thomas  Weston  his  hcircs  executors  and 
administrators  the  said  debt  &  bill  and  all  <t  all  manner  of 
accons  suits  iudgments  exemptions  charges  and  demands 
whatsoever  that  the  said  Thomas  Barnarcliston  his  executors 
or  administrators  have  or  may  have  against  tho-  said  Thomas 
Weston  his  hcircs  executors  or  administrators  by  reason  of 
the  said  bill  or  debt.  In  witncsse  etc.  5.  27.  1G40. 

5.  27.  1040.  Received  by  authority  of  Letters  of  advise  of 
£  from  Thomas  Lcchford  one  of  the  Attorneys  in  the  above 
written  Coppie  of  a  Letter  of  Attorney  mentioned  all  the 
tobacco  in  caskc  wch  he  recovered  of  &  from  ^[r.  Thomas 
Weston  at  the  suit  of  Thomas  Barnardiston  in  the  said  Copy 
mentioned  I  doc  approve  of  the  said  proceedings  &  I  say  I 
have  received  to  the  use  of  the  said  T.  B.  of  well  condiconed 
leafc  tobacco  in  caskc  the  weight  of  25481.  [2.  G.  Copied 
Attornat  1 — (5.  Cop  orbit  1.  ^l.r  Winthrops'  receipt  1  — 
Marshall*  fee  5—15—1.] 

[158]  Morgain  Lcwys  of  Pascattaway  marriner  makes  a 
letter  of  Attorney  to  John  Pickering1  of  Pascattaway  planter 
to  receive  of  Ml"  Thomas  Warrenton  the  summc  of  141  due  to 
ni(3  by  bill  dated  4  December  IHoO  payable  &  that  should  have 
bin  payd  80  Martii  ult.  Dat  27.  Julii  1040  Coram  me  Ch" 
Hardy  &  Samson  Suiter.  [1 — 0] 

1  Jolni  Pickering,  already  noted,  is  Of  the  two  witnesses,  I  find  Samson 
the  only  one  of  these  three  of  whom  I  Suiter  as  "Newport,  1C39;"  but  no 
can  find  any  mention  in  a  cursory  search.  Christopher  Hardy. 


LECIIFORD'S  MAXUSCUIPT  SOTE-DOOK. 


271 


Me  John0"1  Pownes  dc  route  London  in  Com  Corke  mcrcat 
tcncr'  Georgio  Luxson  Xicli0  Brookings  &•  Johi  Morris  in  341 
dat  27  Julii  1040  Condicon  to  pay  them  17*  wthln  10  daycs 
aftir  the  arrivall  of  the  John  &  Francis  of  youghull .l  in  Kng- 
laiul  or  Ireland.  [Is.] 

Captnino  Timothy  Thornhill  makes  a  Letter  of  Attorney 
to  Will1"  Rayiihorowo 2  merchant  to  reeeive  all  Debis  ct 
suinmos  due  to  the  said  Captaine  Thornhill.  5.  27.  1G40. 
[1— 0  J. ;  a  note  (\<l] 

Thomas  Witherley  mnrriner  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney 
unto  Willm  Vicars3  of  Connccticot  planter  to  receive  all  debts 
&  dispose  ct  sell  all  cattell  goods  &  chattells  due  to  him  or 
Will'11  QuickC.  5.  27.  1(340."  [1—0.] 

Thomas  Robinson  of  Boston  marrincr  for  40  sells  unto 
Thomas  Witherley  marrincr  One  barke  ealled  the  Speedwell4 


1  From  the  same  kindly  authority 
which  gave  me  the  whereabouts  of 
"  Ponte  Bondon  in  Com  Corko,"  I 
learn  that  Youghajl  is  "  a  considerable 
seaport  in  the  County  of  Cork,  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Blackwater,"  some  little 
way  to  the  east  of  Cork  Ilarhor. 

>l  William  llaynborowe  (called  of 
Charlestown,  pnsf,  p.  164)  must  he  a 
misspelling  for  William  Kainsborough, 
of  that  town.  Kainsborough  lived  some 
time  in  New  England,  but  in  1045  he 
went  to  England  to  serve  in  the  Civil 
War.  He  was  himself  made  colonel, 
and  hnd  Israel  Stoughton  as  his  lieu- 
tenant-colonel,  and  Nehcrniah  Bourne 
as  mnjor.  Other  New  Englanders  who 
went  with  him  were  Mr.  John  Leverett, 
William  Hudson  the  younger,  and 
Francis  Lisle  the  surgeon,  of  most  of 
whom  we  have  had  mention  in  this 
book.  IJainsborough  is  called  in  one 
of  Winthrop's  letters  the  brother  of 
Stephen  "\Vinthrop.  He  was  the  brother 


of  Judith,  the  wife  of  Stephen  Winthrop. 
If  Wyman  is  right,  he  was  also  his  step- 
grandfather,  by  the  marriage  of  Martha 
llainsborough  Coytmore  with  Governor 
Winthrop.  (See  Wynian's  C/utrfattoicn, 
and  Winth.,  vol.  ii.  a[>x.  A,  05). 

3  William  Vicars  mav  be  the,  father 
of   Thomas   Yigars,  of    Hartford,    born 
1G50.     Savage  offers  the  conjecture  that 
the  family  was   Dutch  ;  but  I  find  no 
trace  of  the  name  in  any  early  papers 
relating  to  the  New  Netherlands  that  I 
have    seen.      William    Quick,    called   a 
sailor  (Suf.  Dm?*,  i.   f.   50),   is  noted 
at  Newport,  1638,  but  seems  by  a  later 
entry   in    the  Nnfc-lw.k  to  be  of   Con 
necticut  (pp.  182,  189,  post). 

4  Whether  the  "Speed  well,  "of  pilgrim 
fame,  lasted  out  forty  years  after  being 
sent  back  to  London  as  unseaworthy,  is 
a  subject  which  may  interest  the  curious. 
One    1'obcrt  Corbin  was  master  of   the 
"Speedwell"  15  Aug.,   1037   (U'inth., 


272  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

wtb  nil  tacklings  &  a])purtcnanccs  to  the  same  belonging  wth 
warranty  against  all  men.  o.  27.  1040.     [1 — 0.] 

Thomas  Withcrle  is  bound  to  Thomas  Robinson. 

Me  Thomam  Withcrle  cle  Southwarke  in  Com  SUIT  tener' 
ct  firmitr  obligur  Thome  Robinson  in  701  conditioned  that  if 
bills  of  exchange  be  payd  by  M!"  Edward  Hopkins1  for 
35l  then  to  be  voyd.  The  bills  to  be  payd  at  30  dayes.  The 
bills  of  exchange  only  passe.  [1 — 6.] 

Allen  Ycwc2  of  Boston  .seaman  assures  his  two  third  parts 
of  one  shallop  \vth  tackling  <t  appurtenances  thereunto  belong 
ing  unto  Thomas  Foule  &  Samuel  Mavericke  Esqrs  for  221  wch 
they  payd  for  him  to  Richard  Pin  seaman  wth  proviso  that  if 
he  pay  the  money  upon  the  9  of  October  next  then  to  be  voyd 
els  he  will  also  serve  them  &  their  assignes  from  thence  3 
yeares.  5.  28.  1640.  [2—8.] 

BOSTON  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  July  28  1G40. 

At  sight  of  this  my  first  bill  of  exchange  my  second  & 
third  not  being  payd  I  pray  you  be  pleased  to  pay  upon  the 
nyneth  day  of  November  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  or  any 
time  after  that  day  unto  Mr  (Jeorge  llussey  Citizen  &  silk- 
man  of  London  dwelling  at  the  signe  of  the  Doggs  head  in 
the  pott  in  Clieapside  London  or  his  assignes  the  summe  of 
twenty  pounds  starling  wch  is  for  so  much  heerc  by  me  received 
of  Mf  Robert  Scott3  of  Boston  aforesaid  haberdasher  1  pray 
you  make  good  payment  &  place  it  to  account  as  by  advice. 

[2]  THOMAS  MATSON. 

1  Edward  Hopkins,  at  this  time  gov-     tinuations  of  this  business  may  be  found 
ernor  of  Connecticut,  came  to  Uoston  in     below  (pp.  159,  164). 

1037  with  Davenport   and    Eaton,  and  3  Mr.     1'obert     Scott,    subsequently 

went  the  same  year  to  Hartford,  where  ensign,    had    come   with    "\Vinthrop   in 

he  was   made   an   assistant,  then    gov-  1030.     He  was  once  or  twice  selectman, 

ernor.     He  ivturned  to  England  in  1052,  His  house  was  on  the  south  side  of  State 

where  he  died  in  10f>7.  Street,  on    the   corner,   it   is  supposed, 

2  Of  Allen  Ycwc   little  seems  to  bo,  of  Pudding  Lane,  so  called,  now  Devon- 
known,    save   the   fact   that   his   name  shire  Street. 

is  spelled  in  a  variety  of  ways.     Con- 


LECUFQRD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  273 

To  my  loving  Sister  in  law  J\Iri.3  [/>/W-]  Chambers  dwelling 
at  the  signe  of  tlic  golden  key  in  Shcrborne  Lane  London  wid- 
dow  and  Executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  Thomas 
Chambers  Cittizen  &  clothworkcr  of  London  Deceased. 

John  Davys  l  of  Boston  in  New  England  ioyncr  bound  in 
a  bill  to  Wm  Hcrrickc  m  3.  1G8  to  be  payd  25  Dec  next  dat: 
5.  28.  1040.  [G(/.] 

A  Release  by  Thomas  Matson  2  of  Brayntrce  in  New  Eng 
land  gunsmith  and  Anne  his  wife  unto  Mri3  [&/««£]  Chambers 
widdow  &  executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  Thomas 
Chambers  Citizen  &  Cloathworker  of  London  deceased  for  201 
parte  of  their  Legacy  5.  28.  1040.  [6c?.] 

[159]  Richard  Pinne  of  Boston  in  New  England  seaman 
makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Allen  Yewe  to  receive  &  re 
cover  all  moneys  debts  dutyes  &  parte  of  a  boatc  &  netts 
due  to  him  from  divers  persons  upon  Cape  Codd  voyage 
wherein  I  was  imploycd  wth  others  And  certaine  money  due 
to  me  from  one  Nicholas  servant  to  Mr.  Thatcher  at  yarmouth 
in  New  England.  5.  28.  1G40.  [Is.] 

Me  Allen  Yewe  do  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  nauta  tener'  £c 
Ric°  Pinne  in  61  dat'  5.  28.  1G40.  Conditioned  to  pay  81  ult 
Junii  1041  at  Robert  Turners  house  in  Boston.  [Is.] 

1  John  Davis,  of  Boston,  joiner,  came  in   1637,  with  which  he  sympathized, 
in  the  "Increase"  in  1635,  and  was,  I  Afterwards,   says  Savage,  he  became  a 
think,  disarmed  in  1637,  with  so  many  military  officer.     Where  Robert  Turner's 
more   of   Leehford's   clients.      But   the  house  was  at  this  time  I  hardly  know, 
name   John    Davis   is  a  confused   one.  lie  had  what  I  suppose  to  be  a  pasture 
There  wore  two  or  three  of  the   name  lot   near   what   is   now   the    corner   of 
(all  joiners)  about  this  time.     William  Franklin    and    Congress  streets  ;  but  I 
Herrick  was  of  Southampton,  L.  I.  think  there  was  probably  no  house  upon 

2  Thomas  Matson  had  been  of  Boston  it.     Later  he  bought  of  Valentine  Hill 
since    Winthrop   came   over,  —  a   gun-  a  house  on  the  west  side  of  Washington 
smith  by  trade   and   an   early  member  Street,  north  of  Court  Street.     It  was 
of    the    church  ;    freeman     March     4,  across  the  street  from  Major  Gibbons's 
1633.     He  moved  to  Braintreo  after  the  [Lk.  Possess.,  G,  44,  p.  96]. 
discomfiture  of  the   Hutchinson    party 

13 


274  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

And  now,  Worthy  Sir,  what  news  can  I  write  you  from  us, 
but  such  as  is  heavy  and  sad,  in  every  respect?  Yesterday, 
being  the  27th  of  July,  a  tall  ship  riding  at  anchor  before 
Charlestowne,  that  brought  hither  provisions  from  Bristoll, 
called  the  Mary  Rose,1  was  (most  part)  blown  up  with  gun 
powder  which  she  had  in  her  for  defence,  (and  the  rest  sunke 
do wne  immcdiatelic,)  through  some  careless  rummaging  with 
candle-light  in  the  hold :  wherein  died  a  brave  mariner  Cap- 
taine  Davis,  with  ten  others,  seamen,  and  two  or  three  of  the 
Country  being  then  on  boardc.  Fourteen  others  of  the  ship's 
company  being  on  shore,  through  the  mercy  of  God  escaped : 
I  never  heard  such  a  fearful  blow  :  it  shook  the  house  wherein 
I  was  being  a  mile  off,  as  an  earthquake.  A  sad  and  doleful 
accident,  and  much  laid  to  heart  by  me.  This  was  at  one 
a  clock  iu  the  afternoone.  God  of  his  mercy  grant  that  we 
the  living  may  lay  it  to  heart  and  repent  indeed,  lest  we  all 
likewise  perish ! 

[Margin :  "  This  is  not  written"]  I  for  my  part,  though 
I  hear  things  are  at  an  ill  way  in  our  native  country,  could 
yet  wish  mysclfe  there,  or  else  in  some  other  place  of  his 
Majcstie's  dominions,  considering  the  errors  and  disorderlie 
proceedings  we  run  into  and  persist  in  dayly  here,  as  sheep 
without  a  shepherd.  I  know  my  friends  desire  to  know 
whether  I  am  yet  of  any  better  mind  than  some  of  my  actions 
about  the  time  of  my  coming  away  did  show  me  to  bee.  I 
doe  professc  that  I  am  of  this  mind  and  judgment,  I  thank 
God  :  that  Christians  cannot  live  happily  without  Bishops,  as 
in  England  ;  nor  Englishmen  without  a  King.  Popular  elec 
tions  indanger  people  with  war  and  a  multitude  of  other 
inconveniences.  The  people  here,  in  short  time,  if  the  course 
here  hold  long,  (which  God  forbid !)  arc  like  to  be  most 
unchristian,  and  the  rest  erroneous  and  ignorant  enough : 
I  have  not  received  the  Sacrament  these  two  yeares,  nor  am 
yet  like  to  doc,  for  I  cannot  agree  to  such  proceedings.  1  am 

1  The  blowing  up  of  the  ship  "Mary  later,  j>i>.  165,  167,  187.     If  interested 

Hose"  in  the  harbor  created  much  ex-  in  the  matter,  he  will  not  fail  to  consult 

citcment  in  the  Colony.    The  reader  will  1J'int.h.t  ii.  11,  72,  74,  and  4  Mass.  Hist. 

remember  Lech  ford's  marginal  note,  p.  C'ofl.,  vi.   141,  where   is   a   letter   from 

154   and  he  will  meet  further  reference  Kndicott  to  Winthrop  on  the  matter. 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  275 

not  of  them,  in  church  or  common  weal :  Some  bid  me  be 
gone,  of  which  I  am  in  some  sort  glad :  others  labor  with  me 
to  stay,  fearing  my  rcturnc  will  do  thcire  cause  wrong ;  and 
loth  am  I  to  hcare  of  a  stay,  but  am  plucking  up  stakes  with 
as  much  speed  as  1  may,  if  so  be  I  may  be  so  happy  as  to 
arrive  in  Ireland,  there  at  leaste  to  follow  my  old  profession, 
and  where  I  have  hope  of  some  friendship,  since  1  was  last 
there  with  my  Lord  Deputy  Wentworth  now  lord  lieutenant- 
general.  When  they  press  me  to  stay,  I  hold  them  to  such 
points  as  these  :  1,  Let  them  be  pleased  to  show  me  by  the 
Scriptures  that  a  people  may  make  [themselves  ?]  a  church 
without  the  presence  and  approbation  of  an  Apostle  or  Evan 
gelist  sent  unto  them  from  a  church:  2dly,  That  a  people 
have  power  to  choose  and  ordain  their  own  officers :  3dly, 
That  any  ministers  have  power  of  imposition  of  hands,  with 
out  apostolicall  or  cvangelicall  Bishops ;  and  if  they  can,  then 
1  will  stay.  But  1  know  not  whether  they  will  stay  me  volens 
nolens  or  what  [ways  ?]  they  may  use  to  stay  me  :  but  this, 
God  willing,  is  the  mind  I  shall,  I  hope,  live  and  die  in.  I 
tell  them  the  Scots  have  done  they  know  not  what,  in  putting 
out  of  Bishops :  I  say  further  to  them  that  others  may  if  they 
will  strain  at  gnats,  the  cap,  tippet,  surplice,  cross,  kneeling 
at  the  Sacrament,  <fcc.,  whereof  none  can  be  singly  evil :  but 
I  for  my  part  will  pray  that  I  may  never  swallow  such  camels 
as  dcpartc  from  Christ  and  his  Apostles  and  Evangelists,  but 
dissent  [from]  receiving  imposition  of  hands  from  one  another, 
downe  from  the  days  of  the  Apostles  hitherto:  though  perad- 
vcnture  great  corruptions  and  many  sins  have  intervened  and 
[undecipherable]  many,  which  God  pardon  unto  us !  Further,  I 
say  to  my  friends  that  Apostles,  Prophets  and  Evangelists  ought 
and  doe  continue,  as  well  as  pastors  or  teachers,  to  the  end 
of  the  world :  How  else  can  the  Gospel  be  propagated  to  the 
Indian  or  Pagan  nations  ?  for  Pastors  and  Teachers,  these  here 
make  to  be  overseers  of  the  flock,  only.  How  can  churches 
be  administered  without  them,  in  peace  and  uniforinitio  ? 
For  if  all  churches  are  so  free,  and  still  one  [over  ?]  another  (as 
they  here  holde),  are  they  not  in  danger  to  become  soe  many 
fractions,  if  not  factions,  sects,  divisions,  confusions,  what  not 


276  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[else?  ]  ?  Also,  if  apostolical  and  evangelical  Bishops,  or  su 
pervisors  are  nccessarie  for  the  propagation  of  the  Gospel 
and  gathering  together  churches  of  God  etc.,  how  can  they  be, 
without  great  impiety,  thrust  out  from  administering  to  them, 
being  gathered  and  approved  ?  May  they  not  visit  such 
churches  as  they  gather  or  approve  ?  Must  they  not  ? 

To  all  these  they  give  me  no  sufficient  answers ;  and  some 
silence  my  letters ; l  some  cry  out  of  nothing  but  Antichrist 
and  the  Man  of  Sin :  I  desire  such  to  consider  Mr.  Zanchy's 
opinion,  out  of  the  Fathers,  of  Antichrist,  and  the  doubtful 
expressions  of  our  interpreters  on  the  Revelation  and  the 
second  Epistle  to  the  Thcssalonians  and  2d  chapter :  whether 
the  seat  upon  seven  hills  be  a  double  type :  whether  it  may 
not  be  Constantinople  as  well  as  Rome,  &c.  When  they  urge 
the  example  of  Geneva,  some  churches  in  Germany,  both  the 
Higher  and  Lower,  Scotland,  <tc.,  I  then  propound  to  them 
to  consider  what  experience  any  of  these  churches  had  in 
mission  to  convert  and  plant  churches  among  pagans  and 
heathens.  But  things  are  amiss,  and  grievances  burden  us 
in  tcmporalls  and  spiritualls.  I  [ask]  what  peace  can  we 
have,  or  deserve  to  have,  if  we  goe  on  in  such  a  way  of  dis 
obedience  to  Apostolical  rules?  They  urge  the  Common 
Prayer  Book,  and  sermons  arc  their  burden.  I  say  the  best 
and  letirnedest  are  and  have  been  beholden  to  forms,  and 
when  the  poor  Indians  arc  to  be  taught,  will  they  not  teach 
them  by  forms?  for  extempore  long  prayers  in  publique  and 
long  [continued?]  1  conceive,  without  forms  in  set  words 
and  the  reading  of  the  Scriptures  as  well  as  preaching,  the 
generation  following  will  be  more  ignorant,  if  not  erronious. 
In  England.  12  or  13  Chapters  and  Psalmes2  are  read  every 
Sunday,  in  all  Churches,  beside  what  is  upon  Wednesdays  and 

1  After  "letters"  these  -words  were  land  every  Sunday  are  read  in  publique 

written  and  erased:   "And  will  not  dis-  Chapters  and  Psalmes  in  every  Church, 

pute  with  nice.     I  think  either  out  of  besides  the  eleven  or  twelve  Command- 

[conterapt]  of  me  or  else  despoire  of  their  ments,"  etc.      This,  doubtless,   should 

cause."     [T.]  be  read,  "eleven  or  twelve  Chapters  and 

-  In  a  marginal    note  to  the  Plninc  Psalini»s   besides   the  Commandments," 

Dcnlin'j  (p.  20;  3  M.  II.  S.  iii.  70)  Ltvh-  etc.     [T.] 
ford  is  made  to  say,  "Whereas  in  Eng- 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  27  f 

Fridays  and  other  holydays ;  but  hero,  Scripture  twice  a 
Sunday,  in  any  Church,  and  upon  any  other  day  none  at  all, 
in  whatsoever  assembly  or  upon  whatsoever  occasion ;  but 
preaching  and  long  [conceived?]  prayers.  Men  may  be 
unmerciful!  in  their  long  prayers,  to  those  that  heare  them. 
Doctrinal  discourses  [delivered]  in  prayer  arc  not  so  fitting 
or  proper  unto  prayer :  And  for  ceremonies,  bowing  at  the 
name  of  Jesus,  and  the  like,  there  is  no  danger  in  them;  but 
alreadio  to  drive  such  things  out  tends  more  to  Atheisme, 
Arianisme,  <tc.,  than  they  are  aware  of.  I  forget  not  to  tell 
some,  that  they  have  taken  upon  them  opus  infmitum  et 
impossibile,  in  their  publiquc  discipline  toward  offenders.  By 
what  rule,  I  asked  them,  are  the  faults  of  men  to  bee  so 
publiqucly  handled  before  all  the  world  as  to  undo  them  ? 
Is  not  a  consistoric  better  and  more  agreeable  to  the  Word  of 
God  ?  Is  not  some  due  pastorall  [collation  ?]  between  the 
people  and  their  own  watchman  (with  reference  to  the  Apos- 
tolicall  or  Evangelicall  [bishop?]  in  weighty  matters,)  a  great 
deale  better  and  more  consonant  to  Scripture?  Besides,  if 
all  men  among  them  were  admitted  to  the  privileges  of  the 
Church  and  Sacraments,  in  their  way,  then,  1  say,  if  offenses 
must  bee  so  handled,  I  see  not  but  they  must  doc  nothing  else 
almost ;  it  will  be  so  infinite :  and  further,  what  power  have 
any  ordinarie  men  (I  mean  those  not  of  the  ministrie)  at  all  to 
[decide  ?]  cither  in  admission  or  excommunication  ?  seeing 
they  have  not  power  of  b[ind]iug?  But  Apostles  and  Evan 
gelists  have  [expressjly  power  of  b[ind]ing;  to  them  it  was 
therefore  committed,  consequentially,  of  admission  and  ex 
communication.  These  and  the  like  discourses  we  have,  but 
few  know  my  full  mind  in  some  things  of  weight  whereof 
I  do  professc  I  was  ignorant  and  misled  in  England.  You 
may  wonder  how  I  am  now  reformed :  Truly,  Sir,  I  was 
forced  for  my  ownc  satisfaction  to  studic  these  things,  and 
the  Lord  giving  lesser  and  great,  hath  also  given  a  blessing, 
1  hope,  unto  nice.  The  land  certainely  is  of  great  consequence  ; 
besides  the  fishing  trade  furs  and  other  commoditycs,  there 
are  surely  rich  Mines  (as  I  believe  upon  credible  report,  and 
think c  I  can  prove);  which  if  his  Majesty  [never?]  takes 


278  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

notice  of,  wo  hope  his  wisest  counsels  will  bend  to  look  at  us, 
a  poor  forlorn  ignorant  people.  0  mercy,  mercy,  from  all  the 
powers  of  mercy  in  heaven  and  on  earth,  to  such  as  sin  of 
ignorance!1  Long  live  England,  and  England's  friends:  let 
them  prosper  that  love  her.  If  a  man  travel  from  East  to 
West,  England  is  a  good  land :  Ireland  also.  [Great,  almost 
incredible  are  the  difficulties  of  new  plantations].2  Here  are 
it 's  true  some  wise  men :  they  want  estates  and  maintenance, 
and  in  this  way  they  are  never  like  to  get  them,  I  fear.  The 
Patent  they  thinkc  bears  them  out  to  uphold  their  elcctorie3 
proceedings,  though  I  heare  it  be  declared  voide  and  sent 
for.4  [It  were  good,  1  thinkc,  if  his  Majesty  were  so.]  5  — 
The  God  of  Heaven  guard  his  Majesty  and  his  councils,  and 
continue  to  England  and  the  united  Kingdomes  of  our  Sov- 
ercigne,  and  all  his  dominions,  every  blessing  there  and  peace. 
If  I  come  over  as  I  hope  to  do,  I  shall  discourse-to  you  more 
at  length.  In  the  mcane  while,  I  commend  you  and  yours  to 
God ;  not  forgetting  my  best  respects  unto  your  beloved  M? 
Bacon  and  your  neighbours,  all  whom  I  love  and  respect 
heartily,  M*  Alexander  Jett  my  s[chool]  fellow,  and  your  kins 
woman  his  wife ;  rests  yours  assuredly  in  all  love,  service  and 

thankfulnesse, 

THOMAS  LECH  FORD. 

John  Cogan  of  Boston  merchant  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney 
to  James  Love  to  receive  of  Richard  Foxwell  and  Ambrose 
Berry  G  what  debts  &  summes  of  money  they  owe  him  5. 
28.  1040.  [Is.  pd  in  conic.] 

1  In  the  margin  Lech  ford  modestly          4  See  Wintli.,  Jour.,  ii.  12.     [T.] 
wrote:  "In   the  number  of  the   igno-          6  These  words  erased.     [T.] 

rant,   I  hold  myself ct  and   M*   Burton,          6  This  is  part  of  John  Cogan's  busi- 

MT    Prynne  and  Doctor  Bastock  [I>ast-  ness  with  the  main  coast.     More  may 

wick],  and  a  multitude  more."     [T.]  be  found  in  regard  to  Richard  Foxwell, 

2  These  words  were  erased.     [T.]  I  presume  on  this  same  matter,  p.  196, 
a  A   favorite   word    with    Lechford.  post.     He  was  an  old  inhabitant  of  that 

"  Some  electorio  ways  tend  to  the  over-  region,  having  been  at   Piscataqua  aa 

throw   of   Kingdomes,"    he  tells  us   in  early  as  1630,  and  being,  as  I  suppose, 

Plainc  Dealing  (3  M,  H.  C.  iii.,  121);  now  settled  at   Scarborough,  where  he 

and  again,  "That  clectorie  courses  will  went  in   1636.     Ambrose  Berry  was  of 

not  long  be  sale  here,  either  in  Church  Saco,  but  nothing  is  known  of  him. 
or  Commonwealth"  (/./.,  p.  10'J).     [T.j 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT   NOTE-HOOK.  279 

[160]  The  account  of  THOMAS  ROBINSON  marriner  concerning  the 
partnership  betweene  him  and  JOHN  SwiNFORTH  l  ship  Car 
penter  intestate  deceased  in  one  barJce  called  the  Speedwell 
5.  29.  1040. 

Since  they  last  made  even  they  layd  out  in  Winter 

last 91     Os.  Orf. 

For  an  Anchor 2       5  0 

For  an  other  Anchor 1      3  G 

For  a  boate 3      0  0 

For  a  niaiue  bonnet 110  0 

For  a  barrell  of  tar  re 115  0 

For  a  pott  &  pitcli 0     12  0 

For  Carpenters  wages ..110  0 

To  Thomas  Stanton 112  0 

To  M!  Richard  Parker  for  a  foresayle     ....     1       3  0 

To  goodman  Giiham  for  a  barrell  of  tarre   ...     1     10  0 
For  ropes  &  other  smale  things  belonging  to  the 

barke  .100 


Sum  27      0       G 

Since  they  last  made  even  they  have  earned  wth 
the  barke 16       0       0 

So  the  losse  surmounts  the  gain 11       0       G 

The  losse  being  equally  to  be  borne  John  S \vin- 

forths  parte  to  beare  thereof  is 5     10       3 

He  also  owes  otherwise  unto  Thomas  Robinson       270 

AVch  added  to  John  Swinforths  parte 

of  the  losse  is 7      19     3rf. 

The  said  barke  is  sold  for      ....     401       0 

Whereof  John  Swinforths  parte  is       .     20       0      0 

Out  of  wch  deducting  the  said       .     .       7     17      3 

There  remains  in  the  hands  of  Tho 
mas  Robinson  due  to  the  estate  of 

John  Swinforth 121     2s    9d. 

[1-0] 

1  James  Swinforth,  ship-carpenter,  Town  Record  that  on  one  occasion 
like  Thomas  Robinson,  manner,  left  no  going  so  fur  as  to  make  a  fire  out  on 
record  by  which  any  of  his  history  may  his  wharf  to  heat  a  "pitch-pott"  and 
be  traced.  Goodman  Giiham  (or  Gillam),  being  detected  at  the  same,  he  was 
who  sold  the  "  tarre,"  was  a  ship-car-  fined  ten  shillings,  of  which  lie  was 
pentor,  who  had  his  shop  in  the  fort  made  to  pay  five.  But  this  was  seven- 
field  on  the  town  cove.  That  Goodman  teen  years  after  the  "Speedwell"  was 
Gillarn,  Benjamin  by  name,  had  "  tarre  "  sold  to  Thomas  Witherly  to  carry  "Wil- 
is  sure  enough  ;  for  we  may  see  by  the  liam  Boreman  away  to  Connecticut. 


280  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  XOTE-BOOK. 

All  Account  for  Timothy  Hawkins1  Carpenter  made  5.  29. 
1G40.     [1*.] 

IJe  it  knowne  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  John 
Coltman  2  late  of  Newton  Harcoate  in  the  parish  of  Wcston 
in  the  County  of  Leicester  and  now  of  Wetherfield  upon  the 
River  of  Connccticot  planter  doe  hereby  make  ordcyne  con 
stitute  and  in  my  place  and  stead  put  my  Dearely  beloved 
Father  Thomas  Coltman  of  Newton  Harcoate  aforesaid  Black 
smith  my  true  and  lawful!  Attorney  for  me  and  in  my  name 
Lawfully  to  enter  into  and  upon  and  to  grant  bargaiue  and 
sell  for  such  reasonable  summcs  of  money  as  lie  shall  thinke 
meete  unto  any  person  or  persons  all  such  Lands  Tenements 
Free  and  Coppihold  whatsoever  and  all  goods  <fc  Chattells  real! 
and  personal  whatsoever  [161]  within  the  Kingdomc  of  Eng 
land  belonging  unto  me  And  in  defalt  of  a  purchaser  or  pur 
chasers  of  the  said  Lands  or  tenements  for  me  and  in  my 
name  into  and  upon  the  same  lawfully  to  enter  &  make  a 
Lease  or  Leases  unto  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever  for 
any  terme  or  tcrmcs  not  exceeding  the  tcrme  of  seven  ycares 
from  the  date  of  such  Lease  or  Leases  and  under  such  reason 
able  yearely  rent  or  rents  Covenants  or  Conditions  as  to  my 
said  Attorney  shall  scenic  meetc  and  so  as  the  same  Lease 
and  Leases  be  made  in  immediate  possession  and  not  in 
reversion  And  the  said  Tenant  &  Tenants  lawfully  to  remove 
<fc  Displace  and  others  to  put  in  their  roome  from  time  to 
time  as  cause  shall  require  And  for  me  and  in  my  name  to 
aske  demand  receive  and  recover  all  the  moneys  accrewing 
and  belonging  to  me  by  reason  of  the  premises.  All  rents 
issues  and  profit  ts  thereof  all  Debts  Dueties  and  demands  due 
unto  me  from  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever  And  the  said 
moneys  rents  issues  profitts  Debts  £  Duties  to  rcturnc  unto 
me  as  by  my  letters  of  advise  I  shall  from  time  to  time  Direct 

1  This  account  of  Timothy  Hawkins          -  Jolin  Ooltimui,  of  Wothi'rsfield,  was 

may  have  btrn  out;  which  he  presented  later  a   schoolmaster  ;  but  whether    lie 

to   the    General    Court    in    regard  to  a  got   his   learning   on    this   side    of   the 

housSwith  which  he  had  had  something  water,  or  studied  by  the   light  of  his 

to   do    (sec  post,    p.   171).     He   was   a  father's  forge,  is  not  known. 
Watcrtown  man,  it  seems. 


LECH  FORD'S    MANUSCRIPT  XOTE-BOOK.  281 

and  appoint.  And  to  that  end  and  purpose.1  for  me  it  in  my 
name  to. commence  and  prosecute  wth  effect  or  cause  to  be 
commenced  it  prosecuted  \vth  effect  any  actions  suits  or  writs 
against  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever  about  the  premises 
or  any  of  them  and  to  compound.  <t  agree  upon  receipts  it 
recoverys  in  that  bchalfe  for  me  ct  in  my  name  acquittances 
or  other  sufficient  Discharges  or  releases  to  make  scale  and 
deliver  And  I  also  grant  unto  my  said  Attorney  that  he  shall 
or  may  by  any  deed  or  deeds  covenant  or  covenants  bynd  me 
my  licirea  executors  and  administrators  to  make  acknowledge 
levy  execute  ct  suffer  any  further  lawful  and  reasonable  acts 
and  deeds  fines  Recoverys  or  other  assurances  for  the  more 
sure  making  and  conveying  of  the  premises  or  any  of  them 
unto  such  purchaser  or  purchasers  of  the  same  as  my  sayd 
Attorney  shall  for  me  it  in  my  name  bargaine  or  agree  wlh  for 
and  about  the  premises  or  any  of  them  and  at  their  costs  <t 
charges  in  the  law  as  shall  be  by  the  said  purchaser  or  pur 
chasers  or  their  Counsell  learned  in  the  law  reasonably 
advised  devised  or  required  so  as  for  the  doing  or  suffering 
thereof  I  be  not  compelled  to  travell  above  ten  myles  from 
Wethersfield  aforesd  And  all  and  every  other  matter  or  thing 
lawful  it  requisite  to  be  done  or  woh  1  shall  from -time  to  time 
under  my  hand  (t  warrant  direct  in  and  about  the  execution 
of  the  premises  for  me  and  in  my  name  to  doe  execute  and 
pcrformc  as  fully  powerfully  <t  effectually  as  T  myselfo  in  my 
proper  person  might  or  could  doe  if  1  were  present  Ratifying 
confirming  and  Allowing  all  and  whatsoever  my  said  Attorney 
shall  lawfully  doc  or  cause  to  be  done  in  the  premises  or  any 
of  them  In  witnesse  whereof  I  have  hereunto  sett  my  hand 
&  sealc  the  Twenty  nyneth  day  of  July  in  the  sixteenth  yearc 
of  the  Raignc  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  by  the  grace 
of  God  King  of  England  Scotland  Franco  and  Ireland 
Defender  of  the  faith  <tc  AnnoqT  Dmi  1G40.  [H — 1.] 

Thomas  Pinny  of  Weymouth   in  N.  E.  t  makes  a  Lcr   of 
Attorney  to  M?  Richard  Garrett 1   of  Scituate  in  New  England 


1  Mr.  Richard  Oanctt  was  town-clerk     of  "Weymoutli,   Init   luul    formerly  been 
of  Scituate.     IiO"er  Ammido\vn  was  now     a  Salem  man. 


282  LECUFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

merchant   to    rec    22s   of   Roger  Ammidowne    of  Weymouth 
aforesaid  shipwright.     Dat'  31  Julij.  1G40.     [6c?.] 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  whereas  Richard 
Bui  gar  of  Dover  l  in  New  England  planter  for  and  in  con 
sideration  of  indian  corne  planted  and  growing  on  t\vo  acres 
or  nerc  thereabouts  being  the  land  of  one  Willrn  Beard  of 
Oyster  river  two  breeding  sowes  whereof  one  is  great  wth  piggs 
and  seven  hundred  of  pules  cloven  lying  ncare  the  said  corne 
to  the  said  Richard  Bulgar  assigned  and  bargained  by  me 
William  Dowries  late  of  Dover  aforesaid  planter  did  promise 
and  undertake  that  I  should  in  his  behalfe  receive  of  and  from 
M*  Valentine  Hill  of  Boston  commodities  to  the  value  of 
foure  pounds  arid  that  the  said  Richard  Bulgar  would  satisfy 
and  pay  five  pounds  more  unto  Mr.  John  Turner  for  my 
intended  passage  into  the  West  Indies.  But  the  said  M? 
Turner  hath  refused  to  accept  of  the  satisfaction  in  the  letter 
of  the  said  Richard  Bulgar  dated  the  24th  of  the  last  moneth 
propounded  whereby  he  hath  not  fullfilled  the  said  bargaiue 
on  his  parte  and  I  am  disappointed  of  my  voyage  aforesaid. 
Now  I  the  said  [162]  William  Downes  in  Consideration  of  nyne 
pounds  of  lawful  money  of  England  to  me  in  hand  payd  and 
satisfycd  by  Captaine  Richard  Morris  doe  by  these  presents 
grant  bargaine  and  sell  unto  the  said  Captaine  Morris  the 
said  Conic  two  swine  and  pales  and  all  the  cncrease  of  the 
said  swine  &  all  my  right  &  title  of  in  &  to  the  premises  & 
every  parte  thereof  To  have  hold  and  enjoy  the  said  Corne 
swine  &  pales  all  &  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  Appur- 

1  This   piece   of  business  is   clearer  sentative  later.     Mr.  John  Turner  was 

than  most  of  the  transactions  that  took  a    Salem    West    India    merchant;     he 

place  at  Dover  or  Oyster  River.   Richard  died  at  Barbadoes.     William  Beard,  of 

Morris    and    Richard  Bulgar    \ve  know  Dover,  was  long  after  this  killed  by  the 

were  both    Roxbury  men  who  had  left  Indians  at  Durham.  Of  William  Downes 

their  homes  during  the Hutchiuson  con-  alone  is  there  no  trace;  but  I  suppose 

troversies,  and  were  now  at  Exeter,  or  he  went  down  to  the  West  Indies, —  per- 

perhaps  Dover.    They  must  have  known  haps  to  the  church  at  Isle  of  Providence 

each  other  wll,   though  they  may  not  in  the  ship  in  which  Captain  William 

have  transacted  business  together.    Val-  Pierce  was  killed.     Such  persons  afford 

eritine  Hill  had  continual  relations  with  ample  ground  for  conjecture. 
Dover,  from  which  place  he  was  repre- 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  283 

tenanccs  whatsoever  unto  the  said  Captaine  Richard  Morris 
his  executors  administrators  and  assignes  And  further  for 
that  end  it  purpose  1  hereby  make  ordeyne  &  appoint  the  said 
Captaine  Morris  my  true  &  lawful  Attorney  for  me  tt  in  my 
name  to  aske  demand  receive  and  recover  the  premises  and 
every  parte  thereof  of  and  from  the  said  Richard  Bulgar  and 
all  manner  of  persons  els  whatsoever  interupting  therewith. 
In  witnesse  etc.  G.  1.  1040.  [!#.] 

I  Captaine  Richard  Morris  doe  hereby  acknowledge  that  I 
am  indebted  unto  Richard  lJulgar  the  sum  me  of  fourc  pounds 
wch  was  for  goods  and  commodities  of  that  value  received 
by  William  Downes  of  M.r  Valentino  Hill  upon  the  account  of 
Edward  Calcott  by  the  direction  of  the  said  Richard  Bulgar 
In  witnesse  etc.  G.  1.  1G40.  this  was  altered  &  made  payable 
to  M'  Coicord. 

I  Captuine  Richard  Morris  doe  hereby  acknowledge  mysclfe 
to  be  indebted  unto  William  Downes  the  summe  of  live  pounds 
to  be  payd  unto  the  said  Will"1  his  executors  admrs  or  assignes 
upon  the  fifteenth  day  of  July  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof 
for  wch  payment  I  by  ml  me  my  heires  executors  and  adm™ 
firmely  by  these  presents  etc  dat'  G.  1.  1G40.  [G<7.] 

John  Peakes  bound  by  bill  to  Thomas  Robinson  for  40s  to 
be  payd  29.  7.  1G40  dat  18.  G.  1G40. 


Matthew  Southerland  l  of  Ncwporte  in  the  Island  of  Rodes 
in  new  England  marriner  bound  by  bill  to  Thomas  Robinson 
for  41  to  be  payd  the  9th  of  8lH'r  1G40.  dat1  20.  G.  1G40.  [Gt?.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  ffourth  day  of  July  in  the  sixteenth 
yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Sovcrnigne  Lord  Charles  by  the 
grace  of  God  of  England  Scotland  France  and  Ireland  King 
<tc  Annoqr  Dili  1G40.  Bctwcene  Richard  Bellingham  of 
Boston  in  New  England  of  the  one  parte  and  Thomas  Joy 

1  Of    Matthew   Southerland    Savage     to  have  been  a  sort  of  partner  of  Hob- 
knows  no  more  than   the  fact  that  he     inson.     (See  2Jost,  p.  170.) 
existed,  and  where  he  lived.     He  seems 


281  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

of  the  same  Carpenter  of  the  other  parte  Witnesscth  that  the 
said  Richard  Bellingham  for  and  in  divers  good  considerations 
him  thereunto  moving  hath  demised  granted  and  to  ffarme 
letten  And  by  these  presents  doth  demise  grant  and  to  ffarme 
let  unto  the  said  Thomas  Joy  all  those  the  saw  pitts  l  of  the 
said  Richard  Bellingham  and  the  marsh  ground  adjoyning 
thereunto  lying  in  Boston  aforesaid  betweene  the  houses  & 
grounds  of  John  Crabtrce  &  John  Lowe  conteyning  in  length 
from  the  Beach  there  foure  rods  \vth  the  appurtenances  To 
have  and  to  hold  the  said  sawpitts  &  marsh  ground  and  all 
and  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever 
unto  the  said  Thomas  Joy  his  executors  adrnrs  &  Assignes  from 
the  day  of  the  date  hereof  for  and  during  the  termc  of  twenty 
ycares  thenceforth  next  ensuing  fully  to  be  compleat  &  ended 
Yeilding  &  paying  therefore  yearely  unto  the  said  Richard 
Bellingham  his  heires  and  assignes  the  summoof  five  pounds 
[163]  of  lawful  money  of  England  at  foure  tcrmcs  of  the  yeare 
that  is  to  say  the  third  day  of  the  first  wcekc  in  the  moncth 
of  October  the  third  day  of  the  first  weekc  in  the  moncth 
of  January  the  third  day  of  the  first  week  in  the  moncth  of 
A  prill  &  the  third  day  of  the  first  wcekc  in  the  moncth  of 
July  by  cquall  portions  to  be  payd.  Provided  allways  that 
if  the  said  ycarcly  rent  shall  be  behind  &  unpayd  in  partc  or 
in  all  by  the  space  of  fouretcenc  days  next  after  any  of  the 
several!  days  of  payment  aforesaid  being  lawfully  demanded 
that  then  it  shall  or  may  be  lawfull  to  and  for  the  said  Richard 
Bellingham  his  heires  and  assignes  into  the  premises  to 
recnter  and  the  same  to  have  againe  &  enjoy  as  in  his  or  their 
former  estate  any  thing  in  these  presents  to  the  contrary 
thereof  conteyned  in  any  wise  notwithstanding.  And  it  is 
Covenanted  &  agreed  betweene  the  partycs  abovcsaid  that 
whatsoever  buildings  the  said  Thomas  Joy  his  executors 

1  These;  sawpits  of  Kiehard  Belling-  Possessions;  but  John  Crabtree's  is  not 

ham  were  in  a  marsh  belonging  to  him  mentioned    anywhere   in    the   volume, 

which  lay  on  the  northwest  side  of  the  John  Lowe  was  a  wheelwright;  the  other 

Town     Cove    (over    opposite    Bendall's  two   were    carpenters.      Joy    moved  to 

Dock).     The   place   is  between    Union  Hingham  in    1647,    and   I    cannot  say 

and  North  streets,  just  oil'  Dock  Square,  what  then  became  of  the  i-awpits. 
John  Lowe's  lot  is  noted  in  the  Luuk  of 


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administrators  or  assignes  sluill  build  upon  the  promises 
during  the  said  tcrmc  the  same  shall  bo  valued  at  the  end  of 
the  said  tcrmc  of  twenty  yea  res  by  two  indifferent  men  to  be 
chosen  by  &  bctwccnc  the  said  Richard  Bcllingham  his  heires 
or  assigncs  and  the  said  Thomas  Joy  his  executors  adminis 
trators  or  assigncs  and  being  soc  valued  the  said  Richard 
Bellingham  his  hcircs  or  assigncs  shall  and  will  pay  and 
sntisfie  the  said  Thorn :  Joy  his  executors  administrators  or 
assigncs  for  the  said  buildings  according  to  the  said  value 
thereof  soe  made  as  aforesaid  In  witncsse  CYC.  [3—1] 

This  Indenture  made  the  twentieth  day  of  August  in  the 
sixteenth  ycare  of  the  Raignc  of  our  Sovcraignc  Lord  Charles 
by  the  grace  of  God  of  England  Scotland  France  and  Ireland 
King  Defender  of  the  Faith  cvc  Annoqr  Dili  1G40.  Betwccne 
Thomas  Dexter1  of  Lynne  in  New  England  yeoman  of  the 
one  parte  and  Humfrey  Ilookc  Citizen  and  Alderman  of 
Bristoll  and  Edward  Godfrey  gent  and  Hugh  Courtney  of 
Bristoll  aforesaid  merchant  for  and  on  the  behalfe  of  the  said 
Humfrey  Hooke  of  the  other  parte  Witnesscth  that  whereas 
the  said  Thomas  Dexter  standeth  indebted  and  doth  owe  unto 
the  said  Humfrey  Ilookc  the  summe  of  foure  hundred  cv  fifty 
pounds  of  lawful  money  of  England  as  by  one  judgment  of 
the  said  Thomas  Dexter  acknowledged  in  the  Court  at  Boston 
before  the  Governor  Deputy  &  Assistants  of  the  Society  of 
the  Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  appearcth  the  said 
Thomas  Dexter  in  Consideration  thereof  and  for  further  & 
better  security  of  payment  &  satisfaccon  thereof  hath  granted 
bargained  sold  enfeoffed  &  confirmed  and  by  these  presents 
doth  grant  bargaine  sell  cnfcoffc  &  confirme  unto  the  said 
Humfrey  Ilooke  All  that  ffarmc  house  and  ffarmc  contcyning 
Eight  hundred  acres  of  land  lying  &  being  within  the  precincts 
of  Lynne  afores'1  called  &  knowne  by  the  name  of  Thomas 
Dextcrs  ffarme  wth  the  appurtenances  and  such  Croppcs  of 

1  Thomas  Dexter  is  not  infrequently  from  an  over-jovial  temperament  and  an 
met  with  in  the  old  authorities.  There  unruly  tongue,  lie  was  now  of  Lynn, 
is  some  little  that  may  be  found  to  and  had  been  since  1G30;  but  he  sub- 
bis  discredit  in  the  Colonial  Records,  —  scquently  moved  to  Barnstable,  in  the 
chiefly  such  as  would  naturally  result  Colony  of  Plymouth. 


286  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Corne  as  thereto  bclongcth  and  twenty  head  of  Cattell  To 
have  and  to  hold  the  said  ffarme  house  &  ffarme  corne  & 
cattcll  and  all  &  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances 
unto  the  said  Humfrey  Hooke  his  hcires  and  assignes  for  ever 
Provided  alhvays  that  if  the  said  Thomas  Dexter  his  hcires 
executors  administrators  or  assignes  shall  well  and  truly  pay 
or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the  said  Humfrey  Hooke  [164]  his 
executors  administrators  or  assignes  the  summe  of  flivc  hun 
dred  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  upon  the  ffirst  day 
of  .June  next  ensuing  the  Date  hereof  at  or  in  the  now  dwelling 
house  of  Will™  Hudson  situate  in  Boston  aforesaid  Then  this 
present  grant  bargaine  sale  feoffemcnt  &  confirmation  .shall 
be  voyd  and  of  none  effect  or  els  it  shall  be  &  remaine  in  full 
power  strength  and  vertue  And  it  is  agreed  betweene  the 
said  partycs  that  if  the  said  mortgage  take  place  through  non 
payment  as  abovesaid  that  the  overplus  coming  upon  sale  of 
the  premises  beyond  the  said  five  hundred  pounds  and  for 
bearance  money  after  the  rate  of  eleven  pounds  by  the  hundred 
for  the  said  foure  hundred  &  fifty  pounds  untill  such  sale  made 
shall  be  payd  unto  the  said  Thomas  Dexter  his  executors 
administrators  or  assignes  In  witnesse  <fcc.  [3-4] 

Samuel  Scarle  of  Quinapeagc  Planter  in  the  behalfe  of 
Jasper  Crane  l  of  the  same  Agent  or  Attorney  for  M?  [Wa/jfc] 
Roc  Citizen  of  London  Dcmiseth  unto  Henry  Dawson  and 
John  Search  of  the  same  one  house  &  house  lott  <fc  three  acres 
of  land  lying  in  Boston  wherein  Will"1  Herricke  now  dwelleth 
from  29  Sept  next  for  5  yearcs  4*  10s.  rent  halfc  yearely,  to 
fence  to  the  value  of  41  10s.  to  repaire  21.  G.  1G40.  [os.] 

Thomas  Bright  2  of  Watcrton  in  N.  E.  g.  mortgageth  all 
his  house  &  lands  being  ten  acres  lying  in  the  precincts  of 

1  Jasper   Crane,   was    after  this    (in  Quinepiac,    hut   were   later  of  Boston. 

1050)   representative    for  New    ILiven.  The    former   was    servant   to    William 

He  was  now  one  of  the  assistants  of  New  Hudson  the  younger,  and  had  the  care 

Haven  Colony,  and  ten  years  after  was  of    his    concerns    when    Hudson     was 

assistant  in  Connecticut  for  three  years,  engaged  in  the  Civil  War  in  England. 
This  may  he  found  in  Savage,  who  says         2  Thomas  Bright  was  some  relation 

nothing   at    all    about   Samuel    Scarle.  perhaps  to  Henry  Bright,   surveyor-of- 

Duwson  and  Search  are  here  called  of  arms  at  Watertown. 


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Waterton  aforesaid  wch  ho  purchased  of  Robert  Feke  gent 
wlh  the  appurtenances  together  also  wth  the  Croppes  of  Come 
growing  upon  the  same  unto  Willm  Raynborowe  of  Charleston 
in  N.  E.  in.  for  1201  to  be  payd  6  Marcii  px  dat  24  Aug :  1040. 
[2-G  pd  in  shott  191  barrcll  &  all  9.  30. 1640.  2d.  p  l  so  1  had 
GcZ.  shot  above  ye  2s.  Gt?.] 

• 

An  assignment  of  Richard  Pynnes  Debt  due  from  Allen 
Ycwe  to  Robert  Turner  24.  Aug.  1640.  [4t?.] 

SIR  — 

Here  is  a  good  land,  and  yeilding  many  good  commodities, 
especially  fish,  and  furs  corne  and  other  richer  things,  if  well 
followed,  and  if  that  popular  elections  destroy  us  not.  It  is 
a  good  Land,  I  say,  that  instructs  us  to  repentance,  when  we 
consider  what  a  good  Land  we  came  from,  what  good  lawcs 
and  government  we  have  left,  to  make  experiments  of  govern 
ing  ourselves  here  by  waves,  wherein  (like  young  Physitians) 
of  necessity  we  must  hurt  and  spoile  one  another  a  great  while, 
before  we  come  to  such  a  sctled  Commonwealth,  or  church 
government  as  is  in  England. 

1  thank  God,  now  1  understand  by  experience,  that  there 
is  no  such  government  for  English  men  or  any  nation  as  a 
Monarchy ;  nor  for  Christians,  as  by  a  lawfull  Ministcric, 
under  godly  Diocesan  Bishops,  deducing  their  station  and 
calling  from  Christ  and  his  Apostles,  in  descent  or  succession  ; 
a  thing  of  greater  consequence  than  ceremonies  (would  to 
God  I  had  known  it  sooner)  which  while  1  have  in  my  place 
stood  for  here  these  two  years,  and  not  agreeing  to  this  new 
discipline,  impossible  to  be  executed,  or  long  continued,  what 
I  have  suffered,  many  here  can  tell ;  I  am  kept  from  the 
Sacrament,  and  all  places  of  preferment  in  the  Common 
wealth,  and  forced  to  get  my  living  by  writing  petty  things, 
which  scarce  finds  me  bread;  and  therefore  sometimes  1  took 
to  planting  of  corne,  but  have  not  yet  here  an  house  of  my 
ownc  to  put  my  head  in  or  any  stock  going:  whereupon  I  was 
determined  to  come  back  into  Ireland,  but  by  the  over-entreaty 
of  my  wife  and  some  other  friends,  I  here  think  to  stay  a 


288  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

while  longer,  hoping  that  the  Lord  will  shortly  give  a  good 
issue  to  things  both  in  our  native  country,  and  Scotland,  and 
here,  as  well  as  in  all  other  his  Majesties  dominions.  I  was 
very  glad  to  sec  My  Lord  Bishop  of  Exeters  Book  of  Epis- 
copacic  by  divine  right;  it  gave  me  much  satisfaction.  If 
the  people  may  make  ministers,  or  any  ministers  make  others 
without  an  apostolicall  Bishop,  what  confusion  will  there 
be?  If  the  whole  Church,  or  every  congregation,  as  our 
good  men  think,  have  the  power  of  the  keycs,  how  many 
Bishops  then  shall  we  have  V  If  every  Parish  or  congregation 
l»e  so  free  and  independent,  as  they  terme  it,  what  unity  can 
we  expect  ? 

Glad  also  was  I  to  sec  Master  Balls  Book  of  the  try  all  of 
the  grounds  of  separation,  both  which  are  newly  come  over, 
and  I  hope  will  work  much  good  among  us  here  ? 

And  whereas  1  was  sometimes  misled  by  those  of  opinion 
that  Bishops,  and  Presbyters,  &  all  Ministers  are  of  the  same 
authority  ;  when  I  came  to  consider  the  necessary  propagation 
of  the  truth,  and  government  of  the  Church  by  experimental! 
footsteps  here  I  quickly  saw  my  error ;  For  besides,  if  the 
con<2Teo-;itioiis  be  not  united  under  one  Diocesan  in  lit  com- 

O         O 

passe,  they  are  in  a  confusion,  not  withstanding  all  their 
classicall  pretendments,  how  can  the  Gospel  be  propagated 
to  the  Indians  without  an  apostolical  Bishop  ?  If  any  Church, 
or  people,  by  the  Kings  leave  send  forth  Ministers  to  teach 
and  instruct  the  poore  Indians  in  the  Christian  Religion,  they 
must  have  at  least  Apostolicall  power  to  ordain  Ministers  or 
Elders  in  every  congregation  among  them ;  and  when  they 
have  so  done,  they  have  power  of  Visitation  where  they  plant  — 
Nor  can  they  without  just  cause  be  thrust  out  from  government 
without  great  impiety;  and  where  they  have  planted,  that  is 
their  line  or  Diocese.  Thus  I  came  to  see  that  of  necessity 
a  Diocese  and  Bishop  Diocesan,  is  very  nccre,  if  not  altogether 
of  Divine  authority. 

[165]  I  am  also  of  opinion,  that  it  were  good  for  our  Minis 
ters  to  learn  how  to  doc  this  work  from  some  of  our  reverend 
Bishops  in  England,  for  I  fcarc  our  Ministers  know  not  how 
to  goe  about  it  —  whether  must  not  some  Ministers  learne 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  289 

their  language?  It  is  a  copious  language,  as  1  am  informed, 
and  they  have  as  many  words  to  express  one  thing  as  we 
have.  And  when  they  teach  Indians  to  pray,  will  they  not 
teach  them  by  a  forme  ?  And  how  can  Gods  worship  he 
maintained  among  ignorant  persons  without  a  forme  ?  1  am 
firm  of  opinion  that  the  best  of  us  have  been  much  beholding 
to  the  word  read,  and  formes  of  prayer. 

FROM  BOSTON  IN  N.  E. 
Julii  23,  1010. 

Thomas  Taylor  bound  to  Thomas  Miller1  in  42s.  to  be 
payd  to  his  wife  Isabell  Miller  24  Aug.  1G40.  &  a  letter  to 
her.  [8cZ.] 

Richard  Betscombe  2  of  Ilingham  in  New  England  late  of 
Bridporte  in  the  County  of  Dorset  haberdasher  in  bchalfe  of 
Mary  &  Martha  his  Daughters  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney 
to  Andrew  Robert  &  Christofcr  his  brothers  to  receive  two 
Legacyes  of  50  *  a  pecc-c  given  by  Philip  Strong  late  of  the 
devi/rs  in  the  County  of  Wiltes  gent  Deceased  to  the  said 
Mary  £  Martha  of  Philip  Strong  Brewer  his  Sonnc  &  exec 
utor  0.  25.  1G40.  [la.] 

Me  liictim  Waldern  3  de  Dorobern  in  Nova  Anglia  planta- 
torc  tcncr'  <tc  Edv  Payne  Nautc  in  801  dat  24°  Aug  1040 
'Condiconcd  to  pay  401  or  the  value  in  merchantable  commodi 
ties  according  to  the  rates  of  the  Country  upon  the  first  day 
of  January  next  at  or  in  the  now  dwelling  house  of  the  said 
Richard.  "  [Is.] 

1  Thomas  Miller  was  one  of  the  early  Now  England.     After  1645  lie  is  con- 
s'-ttlers  of  Middletowu,  Conn.    His  wife,  stantly  hoard  of  in  the  Colonial  Jiccords 
Isabell,  died  in  1G66.  in    connection    with    a  Hairs   at   Dover, 

2  Richard  Bctscombe  was  of  Ilingham  for  which  he  was  many  times  deputy  up 
1635,  freeman  1637.     There  is  no  men-  to    1679.     He   then    became    a  man  of 
tion  found  of  the  three  brothers,  who,  I  great  prominence  in  the  newly  consti- 
conclude,  stayed  on  their  side  the  ocean,  tuted  New  Hampshire,  but  was  killed 

3  Richard  Waldern,  of  Dover,  except  by   Indians   in    1789.     Edward    Payne 
for  this  and  one   other  entry,    is   not  was  of  Lynn  in  1638,  and  the  next  year 
mentioned    before      1645.       Tradition,  of  Charlestown,  but  is  found  of  Dover 
however,   says   that   he   came   in   1635,  in  1613.     lie  went  to  England  in  1649. 
returned  to  England,  and  came  again  to 

10 


290  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Thomas  Millard  l  of  Cape  An  in  New  England  ffishcrman 
aged  40.  swornc  saith  that  before  tlic  ship  Mary  rose  was 
blown  up  He  was  intrcatcd  by  M!  John  Olliver  of  Newberry 
to  goe  wth  a  shallop  to  the  said  ship  <fc  this  deponent  accord 
ingly  went  in  his  shallop  wth  the  said  John  Olliver  to  the  same 
shipp  &  there  demanded  and  was  very  earnest  for  a  packe  of 
goods  to  be  delivered  him  but  some  of  the  shipes  Company 
answered  they  would  not  deliver  it  because  M*  Dannet  was 
not  aboard. 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  Whereas  John  Jorden 
Citizen  &  grocer  of  London  by  his  Letter  of  Attorney  bearing 
date  21  Maii  10  Car0  hath  given  full  power  and  Authority 
unto  us  Willm  Waldcrn2  and  Richard  Waldern  of  Pascatta- 
way  in  New  England  or  either  of  us  to  agree  compound  and 
receive  all  such  debts  and  summcs  of  money  as  Samuel  Cole  3 
of  Boston  in  New  England  standeth  ingaged  for  himselfc  unto 
the  said  John  Jorden  and  for  &  upon  one  bond  of  the  prinall 
Summe  of  200*  bearing  date  the  13th  day  of  June  in  the  4th 
yeare  of  the  raignc  of  said  our  Soveraigne  Lord  King  Charles 
wth  and  for  the  debt  of  John  Tongue  late  of  Boston  in  the 
County  of  Lincolne  deceased  made  unto  the  said  John  Jorden 
as  in  and  by  the  said  Letter  of  Attorney  more  at  large  it  doth 
and  may  appeare  Now  Kno\ve  yee  that  we  the  said  William 
Waldcrn  &  Richard  Waldern  have  by  vertue  of  our  said 

1  Thomas  Millurd,  of  flloucester,  was  dull  and  further  notice  of  Mr.  Dan- 
after  this  selectman.  He  moved  a  year  net,  of  whom  we  can  hope  to  learn 
or  two  afterwards  to  Ncwbury,  and  died  little  beyond  the  fact  that  he  was  a 
in  Boston  in  1G51>.  John  Oliver,  of  "  pro] thane  scoffer. " 
Newbury,  is  called  "  younger  brother,  2  William  Waldern  was  the  elder 
or  perhaps  nephew,  of  elder  Thomas  brother  of  Richard,  in  all  probability, 
Oliver."  At  any  rate  he  came  over  from  and  had  very  much  the  same  position 
England  with  him  in  1632  and  lived  in  and  influence  at  Dover.  lie  was  drowned 
Boston  until  1638,  when,  having  been  in  1646,  being  only  about  forty-five  years 
disarmed  in  1037,  and  rejected  as  a  of  age. 

representative  by  the  House  for  being         3  Samuel  Colo  was  an  early  Bostonian 

a  supporter  of  Wheelwright,  he  moved  (1030),  and  opened  in   1633    the   first 

to  Newbury,  where  he  died  in  1642.  house    of    entertainment,    though    not 

In  regard  to   this  pack    of  goods  so  probably  on   the   same  spot  where  his 

earnestly   demanded,  see   p.   167,  post.,  house  was  later, —  out  in  the  Mill  Field, 

where  is  a  deposition  of  Edward  Ben-  by  Gallup's  Point. 


LECHFORD'S  MAXL'SCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  291 

Authority  and  in  full  discharge  of  the  promises  received  of 
and  from  the  said  Samuel  Cole  to  the  use  of  the  abovesaid 
John  Jordcn  three  Cowes  and  one  Cowe  calfe  and  one  bond 
of  40  pounds  bearing  date  the  24th  day  of  this  instant  inoneth 
of  August  conditioned  for  the  payment  of  20  pounds  unto  the 
said  John  Jordcn  his  executors  administrators  or  assumes 
upon  the  [Wa»/.]  day  of  August  wch  shall  be  in  yearc  of  our 
Lord  1643  wth  this  agreement  that  if  ten  pounds  be  payd  to 
the  said  John  Jordcn  wch  the  said  Samuel  Cole  directed  to  be 
payd  by  Nicholas  Trcrise  1  or  some  passenger  that  went  in  his 
shippe  that  the  same  shall  be  accounted  as  in  parte  of  dis 
charge  of  the  said  forty  pounds  We  therefore  the  said  Wil 
liam  Waldcrn  and  Richard  Walderne  doc  hereby  for  and  in 
the  name  of  the  said  John  Jordcn  [166]  remise  release  and 
forever  quittclaymc  unto  the  said  Samuel  Cole  his  heircs  <tc. 
all  and  all  manner  of  actions  suits  debts  bonds  bills  reckon 
ings  accounts  &  demands  whatsoever  that  the  said  John 
Jorden  his  executors  or  adm™  hath  or  may  have  against  the 
said  Samuel  Cole  his  heires  executors  or  administrators  for 
or  by  reason  of  any  matter  or  cause  whatsoever  from  the 
beginning  of  the  world  unto  this  present  day  In  Witncsse 
Ac.  18.  Aug :  1040.  [2s.] 

Me  Samuele  Cole  de  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia,  plantator  tener' 
Ac  Join  Jorden  Civi  ct  grocer  London  in  401  dat  24  Aug.  1640. 
Condiconed  for  the  payrat  of  20*  24  Aug:  1643.  at  Wra  Iludsons 
house  in  Boston.  [!•?•] 

Me  Samuclcm  Cole  dc  Boston  in  Nova  Anglia  plantator 
tcner'  <vc  Join  Jorden  in  601  ^at  24  Aug  1640.  Condiconed 
for  the  quiet  enjoymt  of  3  Cowcs  and  one  cowe  calfe.  [1.9.] 

Isaacke  Sterne 2  of  Waterton  in  New  England  planter 
sometimes  of  Stoke  Nayland  in  the  County  of  Suffolke  tayler 

1  Nicholas  Trerise,  it  maybe  remem-          2  Isnac   Stearns  came,  according  to 

berecl,  was  master  of  the  "Planter"  (see  Savage,  from  Neyland,  in  Sussex.     He 

ante,  p.  137).     But  what  the  voyage  was  in  the  fleet  with  Sir  Richard  Salton- 

referred  to  was,  is  hardly  matter  for  con-  stall  in  1030. 
jecture  even. 


292  LECHFOUD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

and  Mary  his  wife  daughter  of  John  Barker  late  of  Stoke 
Nayland  aforesaid  clothier  deceased  makes  a  letter  of  Attor 
ney  to  Thomas  Gilson  of  Sudbury  in  the  said  County  of 
Suffolk  baker  to  receive  &  recover  of  &  from  [bUmk']  Mannings 
of  Gaynes  Colne  in  the  County  of  Essex  yeoman  the  sumine 
of  five  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  due  unto  her  l»y 
some  bond  covenant  or  agreement  made  by  the  said  [fc/.-] 
Munnings  before  or  upon  his  marriage  wth  Margaret  Barker 
mother  of  the  said  Mary. 

I  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdicon  of  the 
Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  doe  hereby  Certify  all 
manner  of  persons  whome  it  may  conccrne  that  these  presents 
are  the  act  &  deed  of  the  abovesayd  Isacke  &  Mary  In  testi 
mony  whereof  I  have  at  their  request  caused  the  Common 
scale  of  our  Colony  to  be  hereunto  ailixed  the  day  &  yeare 
abovesaid.  [Is.  GcZ.] 

The  Susann  and  Ellen  of  London  240  tunnes  ROBERT  CLAY 
Master  30  mat/e. 

1  Omnibus  Christ i  fidclibus  ad  quos  praesentcs  Lcttercs 
testimoniales  praevenient  praccipueque  quibuscumquc  Guber- 
natoribus  et  magistratibus  Authoritatem  vcl  jurisdicconem 
quamcinnquc  habcntibus  Thomas  Dudley  Armigcr  Gubernator 
de  Mattachusetts  in  Nova  Anglia  infra  Jurisdicconem  Regis 
Anglia  salutem  etc  Scitis  quod  bona  navis  vocata  Susanna  ct 
Ellen  de  London  oncris  240  dolior  vel  circitcr  mine  in  portu 
nostro  de  Boston  existcns  ct  inde  solute  parata  Eius  Naucterus 

1   "Thomas  Dudley,    Esquire,    Cov-  or  master,  Robert  Clay,  and  the  other 

ernor  of  Massachusetts  in  New  England  men  of  the  same  ship,  to  the  number  of 

under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  King  of  Eng-  thirty,  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  said 

land,  to  all  the  faithful  of  Christ,  and  Boston  and  also  of  those  regions  lying 

especially  to  any  governors  and  magis-  round  about  it,  are  in  good  health,  with 

t rates  and  any  pel-sons  whatsoever  hold-  no  pest  or  infection,  being  free  from  any 

ing  any  authority  to  whom  these  pre-  ill,  weakness,  or  disease.     In  testimony 

sents  may  come,  greeting :  Know  ye  that  whereof  I  have  fixed  to  these  presents 

the  good  ship  called  '  Susan  and  Ellen*  the  public  seal  of  this  Colony,  on  the 

of  Ix>ndon,  of  '210  tons  burden  or  then;-  twenty-sixth  day  of  August  in  the  year 

abouts,  being  now  in  our  port  of  Boston  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred 

and  preparing  to  sail  thence,  the  sailor  and  forty." 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  293 

sivc  magistcr  Robertas  Clay  ct  alii  oiusdem  navis  Homines  ad 
numcra  trigcnta  ct  inhabitantes  do  Boston  pracdicta  ct  cos  l 
loci  circum  jaccntcs  sunt  in  [167]  boua  salubvitate  absque  ulla 
pcstc  vcl  pcstilentia  ct  ab  omnia  alio  morbo  vcl  pestifero  vcl 
mortali  immunes  In  cuius  rci  tcstimonium  Sigillum  publi- 
cuni  hnius  Coloniac  pracscntibus  apponi  feri  viccsimo  scxt  die 
Attcnsis  Angusti  Anno  Dili  millcsimo  scxccntcsimo  ct  qnad- 
ragesimo.  [Is.  Qd.~\ 

Daniel  Paul 2  of  Boston  in  N  E  late  of  Ipswich  in  the 
County  of  Snff  marrincr  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  John 
Cole  of  Ipswich  Shippwright  to  sell  all  his  Lands  tenements 
goods  &  chattells  &  the  money  to  deliver  to  Elizabeth  his 
wife.  [2s.  6(7.] 

John  Bent3  of  Sudbury  in  New  England  late  of  Waybill 
in  the  County  of  Southampton  husbandman  makes  a  letter 
of  Attorney  unto  his  brother  in  law  Will"1  Baker  of  New 
Sarum  in  the  County  of  Willes  Plummcr  to  receive  <v  recover 
of  and  from  Will™  Cole  of  Waybill  aforesaid  husbandman 
the  summc  of  twenty  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  A\rCh 
he  owes  him  by  bond  now  in  the  hands  of  my  sayd  Attorney. 
[Is.  6rf.] 

Nos  Ricum  Parker  in  ct  Nicum  Parker  g  de  B  in  N.  ten  <fec 
IIcnr  Symonds4  morcli*  in  1601  dat'  27  Aug:  1640.  Con- 
diconed  to  pay  87.10  &  after  10  in  C  at  6  moncths  &  3  daycs 
9H  17s  6d  at  [Is.  r  in  corn:] 

1  This  word  I  take  to  be  cos,  or  <?/.<?,      age),   but  returned  to  England  to  bring 
intended  by  Lcchford  to  agree  with  loci.     more. 

There  are  many  corrections  in  the  Latin  4  Henry  Symonds  had  a  house  and 

of  this  entry,  but  in  this  case  the  cor-  lot   just    south    of    Mr.     Bellingham's 

rection  is  far  more  ungramm  itical  than  marsh  (wherein  were  the  Rawpits  let  to 

was  the  first  draft.  Thomas  Joy),    lie  also  was  of  the  Com- 

2  Daniel  Paul  is  heard  in  of  1643  at  pany  to  whom  was  granted  the  marsh 
New  Haven,  and  later  at  Kittery.  towards  Charlestown  to  improve  (Boston 

3  John  Bent  had  just  come  over  to  Town   Records,   i.    74).      This   was  in 
New  England  to  stay  permanently.    Ho  1643,  however.   At  the  time  of  the  above 
had  come  in  1638  with  a  wife  and  five  agreement,  and  later,  lie  was  of   Lynn, 
children    (all    under    twelve    years   of  (See  p.  202,  post). 


294  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Nos  Nicura  Parker  &  Ricum  Parker  «fcc  ten  Henr  Symonds 
merch*  in  230*  dat'  ut  supra  Condiconed  to  pay  1151  &  after 
101  in  C.  at  6  moncths.  [Is.] 

A  letter  of  Attorney  for  Anne  Coleman  &  Samuel  Hosier 
for  the  51  afore  Aug  8.  1639.  at  27  Aug  1640.  [Is.] 

William  Talmage  of  Boston  in  N  E.  Carpenter  Thomas 
Talmagc  Robert  Talmagc  l  and  Richard  Walker  husband  of 
Jane  Talmagc  deceased  sonnes  and  daughter  of  Thomas  Tal 
magc  brother  of  John  Talmage  of  Newton  Stacey  in  the 
County  of  South10"  husbandman  deceased  make  a  Ler  of  Attor 
ney  to  Richard  Canying  and  William  Dowlyng  Overseers  of 
the  will  of  the  said  John  Talmagc  deceased  to  receive  of  the 
Executors  &  admrs  of  the  Last  will  &  testament  of  Symon 
Talmage  our  brother  and  of  John  Talmage  aforesaid  the 
summes  of  money  due  unto  us  by  the  will  of  the  said  John 
Talmage.  &  a  Certilicat  under  the  pub  :  scale.  [3s.] 

A  Bill  of  Lading  for  Mf  John  Johnson.     [6s.  6cl.~] 

Willm  Longley2  of  Lynne  in  New  England  sonne  &  heire  ot 
John  Longley  late  of  Frisby  in  the  County  of  Lincolne  Clerk e 
deceased  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Tho :  Meeke  of  Wayn- 
flete  St  Mary  in  the  County  of  Lincolne  aforesaid  gent  to  sell 
all  hinds  &  tenements  descended  to  him  from  his  said  father 
in  Frisby  aforesaid  and  Steeping  or  els  where  in  the  said 
County  in  the  meanc  while  to  receive  the  rent  &  to  receive  all 
goods  <fc  legacys  &  childs  parte  due  unto  him.  [3s.] 

1  AYilliam,  Thomas,  and  Kobert  Tal-  one  of  the  three  brothers  who  lived  in 
mage  are  all  mentioned  in  Savago,  who  Boston,  had  a  house  onBoylston  Street, 
does  not  say  that  they  were  brothers,  the  north  side,  near  Washington  Street, 
though  he  suspects  the  relationship  of  "  William  Longley,  of  Lynn,  has  been 
Thomas  and  William.  William  was  of  a  pu/.zUng  man  to  the  antiquarians,  and 
Boston  1030,  Thomas  of  Boston  1<>;54,  this  entry  does  not  help  in  clearing  mat- 
but  now  of  Lynn,  and  Robert  was  later  tors.  He  is  called  son  of  Kit-hard  by 
of  New  Haven.  Of  their  brother-in-law,  Savage,  who  feels  rather  confused  about 
Walker,  I  find  nothing  very  satisfactory,  him.  It  may  be  that  there  were  two 
There  is  another  reference  to  these  four,  men  of  the  same  name.  William  Lang- 
p.  175,  i>ost.  William  Talmage,  the  only  ley,  of  Lynn,  adds  to  the  confusion. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  205 

Edward  Bendall  of  Boston  in  Nc\v  England  acred  about 
[/,/«»/*•]  yeares  swornc  saith  upon  his  oath  tliat  upon  the  very 
day  the  Ship  Mary  Rose  was  hlowne  up  in  Charles  river  l 
this  deponent  in  the  behalf e  of  My  John  Olliver  of  Ne  wherry 
in  Ne\v  England  was  going  aboard  the  said  shipp  in  the  morn 
ing  before  the  same  was  blowue  up  [168]  to  demand  A;  take 
order  lo  fetch  away  a  certaine  paeke  of  goods  sent  in  the  said 
ship  to  the  said  John  Olliver  and  by  the  way  this  deponent 
met  wth  M.r  Dannet  one  of  the  merchants  <>f  the  said  shippe 
coming  ashore  and  told  him  this  deponents  errand  whereupon 
Mr  Dannet  sayd  that  if  he  had  knownc  this  deponent  was  to 
have  received  it-  he  should  have  had  it  before  that  tymc  and 
therefore  at  that  time  bad  this  deponent  trouble  himself c  no 
further  about  it  the  said  Mr  Dannet  promising  that  he  would 
at  high  water  or  the  next  tyde  send  the  said  paeke  ashore  to 
this  deponent  in  the  long  boatc  of  the  said  ship.  [Is.] 

Robert  Gamlyn  2  of  Roxbury  in  New  England  planter  and 
Elizabeth  his  wife  gardians  &  tutors  of  John  Mayo  an  infant 
of  the  age  of  eleven  yea  res  or  thereabout  Sonne  it  heire  of 
Thomas  Mayo  late  husband  of  the  said  Elizabeth  and  sonnc 
of  John  Mayo  late  of  Towne  Marroling  in  the  County  of  Kent 
hosier  and  Rebecca  his  wife  and  Mary  Mayo  of  Dorchester  in 
New  England  aforesaid  spinster  daughter  of  the  said  John 

1  The    following    may    interest    the  let  fall  in  tho   same   into   the  water " 

n-a<l<>r    who    does   not   care    to  consult  ( JFinth.,  ii.  11 ). 

"\Viiithrop  (vol.  ii.  pp.  11,  72)  amljohn-  2  Robert  Gamlyn,    of  Roxbury,  may 

son  (vol.   iii.  p.   ix,   B)  :    "  Within  two  he  found  in  Savage.     There  were  two  of 

hours  after    this  (being   about   dinner-  the  name,  who  came  with  Elder  Thomas 

time)    the   powder    took     fire    (no  man  Weld  in   1G32.     The  elder  one  lived  at 

knows    how),    and   blew   all    up  ;    viz.,  Concord  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  but 

the    captain    and   nine    or    ten   of    his  the  other,   called  "junior"    (by  which 

men,    and  some  four  or  five    strangers,  it  may  be  supposed  he  was  son  of  the 

There    was    a    special   providence   that  former),  remained  at  Roxbury.     He  had 

there  were  no  more  ;  for  many  principal  brought  his  wife  Mary  and  her  son,  here 

men   were  going  aboard  at  that   time,  mentioned,  from    England    with    him. 

and  some  were  in  a  boat  near  the  ship,  John  Mayo  is  noted  in  Savage  as  having 

and  others  were  diverted  by  a  sudden  been  brought  as  a  young  child  by  his 

shower   of   rain,    and   others   by    other  stepfather  to  New  England.     To  Mary 

occasions.     There  was  one  man   saved,  Mayo,  the  aunt  of  John  here  mentioned, 

being  carried  up  in   the  scuttle,  and  so  I  find  no  reference. 


296  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Mayo  &  Rebecca  make  a  letter  of  attorney  unto  their  beloved 
friend  &  Brother  in  Law  Steven  England  of  Sandwich  in  the 
County  of  Kent  tayler  <fc  Francis  his  wife  our  Sister  our  true 
&  lawfull  Attorneys  to  receive  their  parte  of  the  rent  of  a 
certainc  mesuage  or  tenement  <fc  orchard  situate  in  towne 
Marroling  aforesaid  now  or  late  in  the  tenure  or  occupation 
of  Thomas  Martyn.  &  to  sell  the  same  £c.  [2s.] 

The  good  ship  called  the  Charles  1  of  Bristoll  burden  300 
tuiines  master  Will™  Elliott  and  44  men.  [Is.  6<i] 

John  Prior2  of  Scituate  in  New  England  and  Daniell  Prior 
of  the  same  Sonnes  of  Thomas  Prior  late  of  Watford  in  the 
County  of  Hertford  Malster  deceased  make  a  Letter  of  At 
torney  unto  Ralfc  King  of  AVatford  aforesaid  wollendrapcr 
and  Launccllott  AVelles  of  the  same  wheeler  to  sell  One  messu 
age  or  tenement  and  orchard  wth  the  Appurtenances  in  AArat- 
ford  aforesaid  now  or  late  in  the  occupation  of  Roger  Brewer 
&  all  their  interest  therein  28.  6.  1640.  [2s.  6d.] 

Abraham  Harding3  of  Boston  in  New  England  sonne  of 
John  Harding  late  of  Boram  in  the  County  of  Essex  husband- 

1  I  cannot  say  with  what  purpose  2  Savage  says  that  John  and  Daniel 
Lecht'onl  inserts  this  mention  of  the  good  Prior  came  from  London  in  the  "  Hope- 
ship  "Charles,"  of  Bristol.  There  is  well"  at  the  respective  ages  of  fifteen 
mention  of  the  vessel  in  Winthrop  (vol.  and  thirteen.  This  was  late  in  1635.  They 
ii.  pp.  2ii,  44),  who  says  that  although  wen;  both  of  Scituate,  and  later  moved 
the  master  was  a  plain,  (piiet  man,  the  to  Duxbury. 

crew  were    very  wicked.     Indeed  it  is          8  Abraham  Harding,  Savage  calls  an 

on  account  of  this  wicked  crew  that  the  early  settler  at  Dedhain,  and  says  "per- 

"  Charles  "  finds  its  way  into  history,  haps  lived  first  at  Braintree."   Braintree 

For    these    forty-four    men    were   such  was  at   this   time  part  of  Boston;  but 

contemners  of  the  Lord's  Day  that  vari-  it  is  probable  that  if  Harding  lived  nt 

ous  judgments  befell  them,  which  may  Dedhain  at  all,  it  was  before  the  date  of 

be  observed  by  the  curious  reader  in  the  this   entry  in    the    Note-book,    for   the 

Journal  as  above  indicated.     Winthrop  early   settlers   of   Dcdham    had   begun 

in  one  place  says   the  ship  was  of  four  their  town  and  dug  their  canal  from  the 

hundred  tons  burden,  and  that  it  came  Charles    to   the   Neponset    before    this 

from  Dartmouth.      I   hesitate  to  assert  time.     He  may  have  moved  to  Dedhain 

that  this  vessel  was  the  same  \vhieh came  afterwards.      "Boram  in  the  county  of 

in  the  fleet  with  the"  Arbella,"  and  was  Essex"   may  be    found  by  looking    for 

sc-t  on  by  Dunkirkers  on  its  return.  Boreham. 


LECIIFORD'S   MAXUSCR/1'T  NOTE-nOOK.  297 

man  deceased  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  fJylos  Barro 
Cittizcn  &  Wollcndraper  of  London  dwelling  at  the  signc  of 
the  Plough  in  Watling  streetc  to  receive  &  recover  of  &  from 
Agnes  Greene  of  Tarling  in  the  County  of  Essex  widdow 
executrix  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  the  said  .John  Hard 
ing  sometimes  her  husband  the  suinmc  of  77*  of  lawfull  money 
of  England  the  remainder  of  801  legacy  given  him  by  his  said 
ffathers  will  28.  6.  1040.  [2s.  Gd.  a  letter  Cr?.] 

1  Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Anne  Floyd  wife 
of  John  Floyd  Citizen  and  haberdasher  of  London  for  and  on 
the  behalfe  of  my  sayd  Husband  and  by  his  authority  doe 
hereby  make  ordaine  and  in  my  place  and  stead  and  in  the 
jdace  tfc  stead  of  my  sayd  husband  put  my  wellbclovcd  and 
Christian  ffricnds  Willra  Colbron  2  ono  of  the  deacons  of  the 
Church  of  Boston  in  N  E  and  John  Button  of  tho  same 
Church  our  true  and  lawful!  attorneys  and  deputyes  ioyntly 
or  severally  for  us  &  in.  our  names  or  the  name  of  either  of  us 
to  take  the  Care  &  tuition  of  Thomas  Floyd3  our  Sonnc  now 

1  This  entry  may  throw  light  on  a  as  here  stated,  and,  like  most  of  their 
very  unimportant   point  which  I   find  brothers  in   that    church,  had  decided 
unsettled  in  Savage,  —  as  to  one  of  the  leanings  towards  the  heretical  doctrines 
name    of  Floyd  who  was  in  1650  treas-  of  Mrs.  Hutchinson.     John  Button  was 
urer  of  the.  Society  for  Propagating  the  disarmed;  but  being  hold  in  some  honor 
Gospel.     Deane  says  that  John  Floyd  by  his  townsmen,  was  in  the  course   of 
of  Scituate  and   Boston  was  the -man,  a  year  or  two  elected  constable.    He  was 
and  Hutchinson  supposes  Richard  Floyd  a  miller  by  trade,    and  had  been  even 
to  be  the  treasurer  of  that  corporation,  while  in   Old   England,  where  he   was 
Savage  himself  sa3-s  that  "  on  turning  born  in  159-1.     He  set  up  his  mill  on 
to  Scobell's   Acts   of  that    Parliament,  Copps' Hill,  which,  it  may  be,  was  called 
we  find  the  family  name  of  the  member  Mill  Field  after  it.      lie  lived  nearby, 
of  that  corporation  was  Lloyd,  and  not  and  was  always  a  member  of  the  coin- 
Floyd;"   and  adds,  "we,  may  be  sure  mit  tecs  appointed  to  oversee  the  fences 
the  treasurer  must  have  been  a  London  or  highways  in  the  Mill  Field.    He  gave 
merchant."     It  may  be  that  the  here-  up  the  mill  to  John  Mylam,  as  I  think, 
mentioned    John    Floyd,    citizen    and  in  1643.     (See   Boston    Town  Records, 
haberdasher  of  London  was  the  person  p.  76,  and  Sujf.  Deeds,  li.  f.  307.)     He 
in   question,    and   that   his   name   was  continued   to   live   in   the   Mill   Field, 
Floyd,  Savage  and  Scobcll  to  the  con-  however,    and    was   at   times   surveyor 
trary  notwithstanding.  of  highways.     lie  died  in  1681. 

2  William  Colbron  and  John  Button          8  It  is  hard  to  think  that  all  this  care 
were   members  of  the    Boston    church,  and   tuition  should  not  have  educated 


298  LECLIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

remayning  wth  Arthur  [169]  Ilowland  of  Duxbury  in  New 
England  riantcr  and  to  send  for  and  take  our  said  sonne  into 
their  or  one  of  their  Custody  &  twenty  foure  pounds  <fc  eight 
pence  to  aske  demand  recover  <fc  receive  of  the  said  Arthur 
Ilowland  l  \vcU  he  hath  in  his  hands  for  the  maintenance  of 
our  say d  sonne  while  he  remained  wth  him  the  said  Arthur 
Ilowland  according  to  the  notes  and  bills  and  schedule  here 
unto  annexed  And  our  sayd  sonne  wth  the  said  moneys  to 
maintaine  educate  and  bring  up  according  as  I  or  my  sayd 
husband  shall  from  time  to  time  by  our  letters  direct  and  in 
the  mcancwhile  according  to  their  ownc  discretion  And  so 
to  kecpc  our  sayd  sonne  and  stockc  aforesaid  till  I  or  my  said 
husband  otherwise  dispose  I  or  my  sayd  husband  paying  for 
our  sayd  sonnes  schooling  &  cloathing  besydes  And  further 
for  me  and  my  said  husband  &  in  our  names  or  the  name  of 
one  of  us  and  to  the  use  of  my  said  husband  to  aske  demand 
recover  and  receive  of  £  from  the  severall  persons  hereafter 
named  in  the  said  schedule  the  severall  debts  goods  &  chat- 
tells  or  their  value  in  money  thereinafter  expressed  to  witt  in 
the  said  schedule  (that  is  to  say  of  and  from  Samuel  Grymes2 
of  Boston  aforesd  pewterer  six  pounds  of  &  from  [/,/«/</>] 
Hurst  of  Cambridge  tayler  thirty  eight  shillings  &  ten  pence 
of  and  from  Mf  [W«/<£]  Freeman  of  Sandwich  seven  shillings 
of  &  from  [MJJI/,-]  Hawkins  of  Uode  Island  three  pounds  of 
&  from  Phillip  Tayler  of  Accamackc  in  Virginia  fourtccne 
pounds  tt  ten  shillings  And  1  leave  in  the  hands  of  my  said 
attorney  John  Button  thirtcene  pounds  &  ten  shillings  wch  he 

Thomas   Floyd   to   be   such   a   man  as  spelled.     He  may  have  "been  the  old  man 

might  have  claimed  a  place  in  Savage's  who   was    dead,    according    to   a    pop- 

Dictioiiary.     I    find  no   such   name   as  ular   song,   and  who   was  in  the  habit 

Thomas,   however,   at   Floyd,  or   Loyd  while    in  life   of   wearing  a  long   gray 

either.  coat,  which  he  buttoned  down  before, 

1  No  other  mention  of  Arthur  How-  instead  of  buttoning  it  up,  as  is  custom- 
land  is  found  earlier  than  1G43,  and  scant  ary.     As  for  Hurst,   I  iind  a  Goodman 
notice  enough  after  that  date.     In  1GG9  Hurst,  who,  like  the  man   in  (picstiou 
it  is  known  that  he  was  aged  and  poor;  here,  seems,   says  Savage,   not  to  have 
but  how  aged  or  how  poor  I  Iind  stated  enjoyed   a   Christian   name.      William 
nowhere.  Hawkins,  of  Providence,  freeman  1655, 

2  Not  much  can  bo  said  of  Samuel  may  have  been  the  "Rode  Island"  man 
Grymes,  or  Graemes,  as  it  is  sometimes  spoken  of. 


L E CIIF ORD'S   M.  1  .V 6'S CR 1PT  NOrJ 'A'-L' (. ~) OK. 

oweth  me  One  sow  &  piggs  o1  and  one  fllocke  bedel  it  ])olstcr 
and  a  paire  of  Curtaincs  it  valens  of  the  value  of  fifty  shillings 
one  wigge  of  the  value  of  twenty  foure  shillings  and  a  payrc 
of  andirons  tongues  fyre  shovel  it  forko  topped  wth  bi'asse  of 
the  value  of  Iciinc  shillings  one  brasse  pott  and  hookes  and 
hangers  of  the  value  of  fifteen  shillings  and  one  preserving 
pan  of  brasse  tinned  of  the  value  of  nyne  shillings  one  frix.e 
Coate  for  a  woman  of  the  value  of  thirty  shillings  unel  one 
head  peeee  of  the  value  of  two  shillings)  and  for  us  and  in 
our  names  or  one  of  our  names  to  sue  arrest  attach  impleadc 
prosceute  it  recover  And  upon  receipts  in  that  behalfe  suf 
ficient  it  legall  acquittances  it  releases  to  make  scale  it  de 
liver  And  one  Attorney  or  more  under  them  for  execution 
of  the  premises  to  substitute  and  revoke.  And  all  other 
matters  it  things  acts  it  deeds  requisite  in  and  about  the 
premises  to  doe  execute  it  performe  for  me  it  my  sayd  hus 
band  in  our  or  one  of  our  names  as  fully  effectually  it  power 
fully  ns  I  or  my  said  husband  might  or  could  doe  if  we  were 
present  Ratifying  allowing  it  confirming  all  and  whatsoever 
our  sayd  Attorneys  or  either  of  them  shall  lawfully  doe  in  the 
premises.  In  witnesse  itc  28.  (5.  1G40.  [Draught  1.9.  Sd. 
The  two  Coppics  3s.  Od.  The  schedule  Is.  8(7.  The  bills  of 
lading  1*.  Oc?.'— 7*.  4,7.] 

In  the  hands  of  Arthur  Rowland 

In  goods  delivered  by  him  to  Christofer  Wads- 
worth  l        7\  0,5. 

In    goods   that    were   received   of    mo     ...  10  1 

In    other  goods 0  10          6d 

A  paire  of  shooes 0  2         8 

Received  of  goodman    Wasborne  for  me     .     .  11         0 

[he  received  of  John  Willis2  for  me  7*   8s — 2G+8.  whereof 
40s  put  to  Christofer  Wadsworth] 

1  Christopher  Wadsworth  was  one  of          2  John  Willis  was   at   this  time   of 

the   earliest   settlers  at   Duxbury,   and  Duxbury,    but  afterwards   was   one   of 

one  of  the  most  respectable  and  honor-  those  who  settled  Bridgewatcr.    lie  was 

able  of  its  inhabitants.     He  served  the  often    representative    from    the    latter 

town  as  constable,  and  later  as  select-  town, 
man  and  deputy  to  the  General  Court. 


300  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[170]  Thomas  Odingselle  l  charges  a  bill  of  40*  upon  John 
Odingsellc  Esqr  of  Eppcrston  in  the  County  of  Nottingham  to 
he  payd  to  Mr  Maurice  Gittins  Cittizcn  &  Wollendraper  of 
London  at  the  signc  of  the  hell  in  Watling  streate.  upon  20 
dayes  sight  for  so  much  received  of  Willm  Pester  of  Salem 
in  New  England  mercer.  [Is.] 

SALEM  IN  N.  E.  28°  August  1G40. 

So  may  it  please  you  upon  20  dayes  after  sight  of  this  my 
first  bill  of  exchange  my  second  &  third  not  being  payd  to 
pay  unto  Mf  Maurice  Gittins  Cittizcn  &  Wollendraper  of  Lon 
don  dwelling  at  the  signc  of  the  Bell  in  Watling  streete  or  his 
assigncs  the  sumnic  of  forty  pounds  starling  wch  is  for  so 
much  hcere  received  of  Captaine  Edward  Giboncs  of  Boston 
aforcsayd  I  beseech  you  make  good  payment  &  place  it  to 
account  as  by  advise. 

Yor  obedient  Sonne 

THOMAS  ODINGSELLE. 

To  the  \vor"  my  deare  &  loving  father  JOHN  ODINGSELLE  of  Epperston 
in  the  County  of  Nottingham  Esqr  or  to  my  loving  Brother  Mr  JOHN 
ODINGSELLE  at  Mr  Mansfields  at  the  seven  starres  on  Ludgate  bill. 

Nos  Thomam  Odingsclle  de  Salem  in  Nova  Anglia  gen  et 
Will"1  Pester  do  eadcm  mercer  tener'  &c  Capitando  Ed~vo 
Giboncs  bound  to  him  to  pay  all  dammagcs  if  the  bills  be 
not  satisfied. 


SALEM  IN  NEW  ENGLAND. 

So  may  it  please  yoii  upon  20  dayes  after  sight  of  this  my 
first  ex  to  pay  unto  Mf  Maurice  <tc  forty  pounds  starling  <fec 
rec  of  the  same  £c. 

Yor  Dutiful  nephew 

WILL*  PESTER. 

To  the  \vor"  my  deare  uncle  WILL"  PKSTKK  Esqr  at  Barnards  Castle  my 
Lord  Chamberlaynes  house  in  Thames  streete  London.     [l-s-] 

1  We  may  hope  that  John  Oding-  than  his  son  has  been  by  the  present 
sclle  was  to  be  found  more  easily  by  writer.  No  such  name  is  to  bu  found  in 
the  bearers  of  these  bills  of  exchange  Savage. 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  001 

James  Forrctt  *  of  Long  Island  in  N(.iw  England  Esqr 
makes  a  deed  of  gift  unto  Thomas  Robinson  and  Matthew 
Southcrland  of  one  Boatc  or  sinalc  shallop  of  bunion  fourc 
tunnes  or  thereabouts  wth  niainc  sayle  anchor  Cable  all  new 
and  a  Compass  wth  oares  and  the  appurtenances  in  payment 
of  twelve  parts  of  a  greater  debt  owing  by  him  unto  them. 
29.  0.  1040.  [2s.] 

Ralfc  Sprague2  of  Charlcstowne  in  New  England  &  Joane 
his  wife  make  their  letter  of  attorney  unto  John  Holland  of 
Tinrkleton  in  the  County  of  Dorset  ITuller  to  receive  of  .John 
Cox  of  Bowlington  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  Executors  of 
Richard  Warren  deceased  Tl  \vch  was  given  by  his  will  to  the 
said  Joane  and  her  children  John  Jonathan  Richard  Samuel 
Alary  and  Phineas  or  any  other  summc  due  unto  them  <tc. 


[171]  Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  1  Joseph  Cooke3 
of  Cambridge  in  New  England  gent  Second  Sonne  of  Thomas 
Cooke  laic  of  great  Ycaldhani  in  the-  County  of  Essex  gent 
deceased  doe  hereby  remise  release  and  absolutely  for  me  & 
my  heires  quitt  Clayme  unto  my  Brother  Thomas  Cooke  of 
AVorminirford  in  the  said  County  of  Essex  gent  All  the  right 
title  and  (May  me  that  1  had  have  or  any  waves  hereafter  may 
have  of  and  in  One  Customary  Tenement  in  Brysctt  magna 
called  Hrysett  Kcll  in  the  County  of  Suffolk  wth  all  the  Cus 
tomary  and  Lease  Lands  thereunto  belonging  In  witncsse 
whereof  I  have  hereunto  sett  my  hand  a,nd  scale  the  last 
day  of  August  in  the  Sixteenth  yeare  of  the  raignc  of  our 

1  James  Forrot  of  Long  Island  was  sons  John  and  Richard.    lie  was  of  that 
the  agent  of  the  Karl  of  Stirling  for  his  part  of  the  Boston  church  which  were 
patent    of    Long   Island.      He  was   in  dismissed  to  form  tin;  church  at  Charles- 
Boston  about  this  time  the  next  year,  town.     His  children  Mary,  Phincas,  and 
but   probably    only    temporarily.      (See  Jonathan  were  born   in   New  England. 
ante,  p.  56V  Samuel  was  married  in  lGf>">,  but  I  cannot 

2  llalfe  Spraguc  came  to  Now  Kng-  say  where  he  was  born.     Joan  Sprague 
land    in    1G29    (according    to    Savage,  was,  it  may  be  remembered,  the  daughter 
whom  I  see  no  reason  to  doubt,  though  of  Richard  Warren,  here  mentioned. 
there   is  in   this   case    some   question).  3  Of  Joseph    Cooke  the  reader  may 
He  brought  with  him  his  wife  and  his  remember  something  at  p.  135,  ante. 


302  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  by  the  grace  of  God  of  England 
Scotland  France  and  Ireland  King  Defender  of  the  Faith 
&c.  Anno4r  Dili.  1G40.  [2s.  OJ.] 

His  Letter  of  Attorney  to  his  said  Brother  for  the  ffreehold 
lands  as  afore.  Dat'  ult  6.  1640.  [3s.  Od.] 

Will™  Rix1  of  Boston  in  New  England  Planter  one  of  the 
sonnes  of  Robert  Rix  of  Kenninghall  in  the  County  of  Nor- 
folke  grocer  deceased  gives  and  grants  unto  his  Sister  Eliza 
beth  Waters  of  Kenninghall  aforesaid  widdow  All  his  lands 
tenements  goods  <fe  Chattels  in  Wortham  in  the  County  of 
Suffolke  or  els  where  due  unto  him  by  his  said  ffathers  will 
Mf  John  Davy  Clarke  of  Kenninghall  aforcsd  Henry  Rix  of 
Pagravc  in  Suffolke  Attorneys  to  give  Livery.  [31 — G.  1640.] 
[5s.  Od.] 

2  Michael  Williamson  of  Rode  Island  in  New  England 
locksmith  and  Anne  his  wife  otherwise  called  Anne  Panckhurst 
releases  the  Elizabeth  Geere  &c.  And  Mr  Stapley  aforesaid 
and  a  letter  etc.  1  Sept.  1640.  [3s.  6d.] 

John  Davys3  joyncr  is  to  build  Will™  Rix  one  framed  house 
16  foot  long  &  14  foote  wyde  wth  a  chamber  floarc  fmisht 
summer  <fe  ioysts  a  ccllcr  floarc  wtu  ioysts  fmisht  the  roofe 
&  walles  Clapboardcd  on  the  outsyde  the  Chimney  framed  with 
out  dawbing  to  be  done  wtb  hcwc-n  timber.  Will™  Rix  is  for 

1  William  filx,  of  Bo.ston,  was  a  John  Davys  in  my  mind  (see  p.  158, 

waver.  He  was  not  in  any  way  promi-  ante),  there  being  several  of  that  name 

nent,  however,  for  I  find  no  mention  of  who  followed  the  trade  of  a  carpenter, 

him  in  tho  Tnicn  L'ccords  nor  in  the  The  "  plott  of  ground"  I  suppose  to  he 

Coliniiil  I!,ron!.i.  11  is  name  is  not  in  somewhere  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 

the  nook  of  Possessions  in  any  con-  corner  of  Washington  and  Merrimac 

neclion.  streets,  just  south  of  HaymarUct  Square, 

-  This  matter  is  in  ivpml  to  the  will  which  then  would  have  bordered  on  the 

of  Dennis  (Ver,  husband  of  the  here-  Mill  Cove  opposite  Charlcstowu.  It 

mentioned  Kli/.abrth,  of  which  more  was  here  that  John  Davics  and  James 

may  be  seen  (aiilr,  p.  129).  This  men-  Johnson  had  lots,  and  I  suppose  that 

tion  of  Williamson  adds  little  to  what  the  lot  here  mentioned  was  incorporated 

is  already  known  of  him.  i'1  one  °f  them,  and  so  entered  in  the 

8  There    is    some    confusion     about  Book  °f  Possessions. 


LECHFORD'S  ILIM'SCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

tliis  to  pay  to  John  Davis  21*  vz  41  in  hnnd  7*  when  it  is 
finisht  and  the  rest  first  of  May  1641.  wth  one  plott  of  ground 
lying  betweene  John  Davis  &  James  Johnson,  lilt  0.  1G40. 
[Is.  StZ.] 

A  writing  for  Mr  Sanlcy.1     [>7.] 

To  the  right  worn  the    Governor  and   Assistants  this  present 
Court  assembled  1  fcept.  1040. 

The  humble  petition2  oj  TIMOTHY  HAWKINS   Carpenter 

Shewcth  that  he  hath  built  an  house  for  the  Country  at 
Castle  Island  wch  he  thought  he  had  done  in  all  things  according 
to  his  Covenant  except  sonic  smalc  foult  in  the  postes  yet  now 
the  same  being  viewed  by  workmen  it  appearcth  that  there  is 
some  other  default  therein  on  yor  pcticoncr  parte  for  wch  he 
much  grieved  being  no  ways  able  now  to  mend  the  same  yet 
as  it  is  now  done  the  charge  thereof  comes  to  130*  besides 
yor  peticoners  owne  Labor  and  his  boys  wcb  comes  to  20* 
more  at  the  least  yor  peticoner  hath  received  but  881  11s  in 
parte  So  that  6G*  9s  more  will  scarce  make  yor  pcticoncr  a 
saver  for  the  worke  yet  by  covenant  he  confcsscth  there  is  due 
but  37*  93toJiim:  [172]  And  wheras  yor  pcticoncr  standcth 
yet  indebted  to  divers  for  the  same  workc  the  summe  of  45* 
wch  he  is  no  way  able  to  pay  except  he  should  sell  his  house  & 
planting  ground  wch  if  he  should  doe  he  sceth  no  way  for  the 

1  There  is  no  such  name  as  Siinloy  to  undertakers,  who   were  aided  by   sub- 
be  found  in  Savage.     I  fear  conjecture  sidies  from  the  General  Court.     It  was 
as  to  another  spelling  would  be  useless.  not  kept  up  to  the  satisfaction   of  tho 

2  I  think  that  it  must  be  as  an  answer  Court,  however,  and  the  island  and  the 
to  this  petition  that  the  General  Court,  house  thereon  were  given  to  Captain  Gib- 
2  June,  1041,  voted  that  "it  is  con-  bons  until  such  time  as  the  public  good 
ceived  thatTymo:  Hawkins  hath  nothing  might  need  them  back  again.    The  pub- 
due  to  him  in  justice,  so  nothing  is  to  lie  good  needed  them  in  1043,  when  the 
be  allowed  him  ;  but  if  he  will  put  in  arrival  of  La  Tour  with   a   large  ship 
security  to  pay  451,  hee  is  granted  the  showed  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  how 
house  to  take  away,    &  dispose   of   it,  much  harm  might  be  done  by  the  ar- 
provided  he  give  his  answer  within  a  rival  of  an  enemy.    The  island  waf  then 
month."  re-fortified,  great  exertions  being  made 

The  fortifications  at  Castle  Island  by  the  towns  around  the  harbor,  as  may 
were  at  this  time  in  the  hands  of  private  be  seen  in  the  Boston  Town  Records. 


304  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

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present  for  the  Comfortable  maintainancc  of  himself  &  his 
family.  Yor  peticoncr  humbly  prayeth  the  Court  in  regard 
of  the  premises  that  the  whole  matter  may  be  referred  to 
the  Arbitrement  of  this  Court  £  indifferent  workmen  to  sett 
downc  &  determine  what  moneys  more  yor  peticoncr  ought  in 
equity  to  have  for  his  said  worke  &  that  it  may  speedily  be 
payd  in  respeet  of  this  peticoners  neeessity  And  he  shall  as 
his  duty  byndcth  him  allways  pray  for  you  &c.  [Is.  GJ.] 

1.  7.  1G40.  Henry  Smith1  pit  Timothy  Hawkins  defend1 
for  timber  boards  &  carriage  29t  lo8  Gd  wch  should  have  bin 
payd  all  but  G  —  7  —  Gd  1  Martii  and  the  said  G  —  7  —  Gd  upon 
15  of  May  he  hath  received  but  50"  in  cornc  so  that  there 
rcmaines  27  —  5  —  Gd  &  damm.  Edward  Oillman  by  himself  for 
51  10s  for  planke  &,  carriage  to  be  payd  1  Martii.  [Is.] 

Thomas  Taylor2  of  AVatcrton  in  New  England  planter 
bound  to  Will™  Goose  mariner  in  4l  to  be  payd  within  6 
weekes  after  the  arivall  of  the  good  ship  the  Sparrow  in  the 
port  of  London,  bound  in  G*  1.  7b.r  1G40. 


BOSTON  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  the  1st  of  September  1010. 

Sr  I  pray  you  upon  20  daycs  after  sight  of  this  my  first 
bill  of  exchange  my  second  &  third  not  being  payd  to  be 

1  From  the  mention  here  of  Henry  little  is  known.  He  had  a  child  bom  a 

Smith  and  Edward  Oillman  together,  I  year  or  two  after  this,  whom  he  named 

should  like  to  believe  them  to  be  the  Seabred.  As  for  the  "Sparrow,"  the 

men  bearing  those  names  who  came  over  name,  met  with  once  or  twice  in  the  in- 

together  in  1638  and  settled  at  I  ling-  dorsement  of  some  of  Governor  "Win- 

ham.  It  is  true  that  the  fact  that  two  throp's  letters,  "  Resp..  per  the  Spar- 

men  crossed  the  ocean  in  the  same  ship  row,  J.  Bradshaw,"  is  indorsed  on  a  letter 

does  not  necessarily  imply  that  they  are  dated  March  15,  1639;  and  the  same 

always  to  be  mentioned  together,  and  occurs  on  letters  dated  May  15,  1640, 

also  that  it  is  a  little  unlikely  that  and  March  20,  1640.  In  1G22  Mr. 

Timothy  Hawkins  should  have  bought  Thomas  Wcston  sent  "  3  small  ships 

lumber  of  a  couple  of  Ilingham  men  for  for  his  perticuler  plantation,  th<>  greatest 

Castle  Island,  which  lies  much  nearer  whereof  being  100  tune."  Of  these  the 

Dorchester  Neck  than  anywhere  else.  "Sparrow"  was  one,  not  the  largest.  But 

If  thisj  Henry  Smith  was  the  Ilingham  I  cannot  say  that  the  ship  here  men- 

man,  he  was  representative  in  the  Gen-  tioned  was  the  one  which  conveyed  the 

eral  Court  the  next  year.  unlucky  emigrants  sent  by  Thomas 

2  Of  Thomas  Taylor,  of  Watertown,  Weston. 


LECUFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  305 

pleased  to  pay  unto  M?  Thomas  Thoroughgood  of  Grim- 
stou  in  the  County  of  Norfolkc  Clerkc  or  his  assignes  the 
sunnne  of  33}  6s  8  starling  wch  is  for  so  much  lieero  by 
me  received  of  Bozoun  Allen  l  of  llinghani  in  New  England 
mercer  I  pray  make  good  payment  &  place  to  account  as 
by  advise. 

Yor  loving  Sonnc  in  Law, 

THO  :  GRUBB. 

To  my  loving  father-in-Law  JKFFRY  SALTER  of   Kings   Lynne   in  the 
County  of  Norfolke  Tanner. 


A  Release  by  Thomas  Grubb2  &  Anne  his  wife  of  Boston 
in  N  E  planter  unto  him.  [Is.  Gd.] 

Bozoun  Allen  of  Hingham  in  N  E  mercer  bound  to  Tho : 
Grubbe  in  15*  to  be  payd  upon  intelligence  that  the  said  bills 
be  satisfyed.  [6<i.] 

A  Certificate3  that  Ephraim  Wheeler  of  Concord  in  the 
Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  being  a  young  man  of 
twenty  one  yeares  of  age  or  therabout  dwclleth  at  Concord 
aforesaid,  fls-l 


1  Jjozoum    Allen    was   of  Ilingliam.  His  naino  occurs  frequently  enough  in 
He  came  over  in  1638, — in  the  same  the    Tmm  ]br.or<l  as   surveying  high- 
ship,  by  the  way,  with  Henry  Smith  and  ways,    inspecting    fences,    and   levying 
Edward  Oillman.     He  was  representa-  rates.    As  might  have  been  expected,  he 
tive  from  Hingham  in  1641  and  various  was  neither  high  enough  in  station  nor 
other  years.     His  name  is  remembered  low  enough  to  make,  an  appearance  in 
by  the  reader  of  Winthrop  as  being  that  the  Records  of  the.  Colony,   where  few 
of  one  of  the  principals  in  that  very  en-  besides  magistrates  and  criminals  arc  to 
rious  contest  in  regard  to  religious,  civil,  lie  found. 

and  military  liberty  which  was  waged  in          a  It  is  pleasant  to  find  this  statement 

the    General   Court    in    regard    to   the  confirmed  in  Savage.    "Wheeler  removed 

Hingham  train-band  in  the  year  1645.  to   Fairfield  with  some  other   Concord 

2  Thomas  Grubb,  leather-dresser,  of  men  in   1644,  and   died    there  in  very 
Boston,   was  constable  of  the   town  in  good    circumstances   in    1670.     Savage, 
1646.     His  house  was  on  the  west  side  following  Farmer,  says  that   he  had  a 
of  what  is  now  Washington  Street,  some-  son    Isaac,    born    1638.      This   may   or 
what  south  of  the   Old  South    Church,  may  not  be  true. 

20 


306         LEciiroiiD's  M.  \\rscmrT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Benjamin  and  Nathanicll  Bosworth  T  charge  bills  upon 
Joseph  Bosworth  of  Coventry  in  the  County  of  Wark  shoo- 
niakcr  for  tennc  pounds  to  be  paycl  to  Thomas  Lund  of  Lon 
don  Icatherdrcsscr  or  his  assigncs  14)011  20  dayes  sight.  [Is.] 

A  bond  to  paye  it  accordingly  by  Will"1  Buckland  carpenter 
&  Thomas  Turner  of  Ilingham.  [Is.] 

A  writing  for  Counter    security  All  dated    1    Sept.    1G40. 


Will"1  Ilollway  of  Cohannet  complaineth  against  John  T  re- 
worthy  2  gent  Agent  or  factor  for  his  Grandfather  Mr  Shaplcy 
of  Dartmouth  o  \vner  and  Richard  Day  master  of  the  ship 
called  the  Desire  of  Totneys  for  that  whereas  Simon  Edwards 
of  Cullampton  in  the  County  of  Devon  shipt  in,  the  said  shij) 
in  good  oi'der  and  well  conditioned  the  value  of  two  hoggs- 
heads  of  pease  three  hoggshcads  of  malt  &  one  hoggshcad  of 
girts  oatmeale  wtb  certaine  cheeses  and  ccrtaine  other  goods 
of  the  value  of  eight  pounds  12  7d  to  be  landed  at  Boston  in 
New  England  in  like  good  condicon  for  the  use  of  the  said 
Will1"  Ilollway.  The  said  Will"1  Ilolhvay  now  complaineth 
that  the  goods  were  brought  to  Pascataway  &  there  landed  <fe 
that  one  of  the  said  hogsheads  of  pease  was  broken  up  &  two 
bushclls  or  thereabout  wanting  thereof  and  that  one  [173] 
hoggshcad  of  girts  was  broken  up  and  thereto  put  a  baggc  of 

1  Savage   is    confused   between    two  married  James  Treworthy,  of   Kitten-, 

Benjamins  and  two  Nathaniels.     I  sup-  who  is  thought  to  have  been  the  brother 

pose  the  two  here  mentioned  to    have  of  John.    As  has  been  already  said,  there 

been  brothers,  and  each  of  them  to  have  are  doubts  as  to  the  existence  of  John 

had  a  son    named  after  himself.     The  Treworthy,  but  it   seems  from   this  us 

first  generation  lived  in  Ilingham,  and  though    they  were    ill-founded.        Mr. 

the  second  lived  in  Hull.  Shapley  was  the  grandfather  of  the  wife 

-  John    Treworthy   will   be    remcm-  of    James    Treworthy,  and  the  grand- 

be  re  «  I    by    the    reader    as   having   been  uncle-in-law  of  John,  though    not   here 

mentioned  before  in  the  Note-look.    Mr.  so  called.     As  for  the  ship  "  Desire  "  of 

Shaplcy,  of  Dartmouth,  was  perhaps  the  Totnes,  it  can  hardly  be  the  shin  of  that 

father  of  Alexander  Shapley,  who  was  name   which  was  built  at    Marbh-head 

in  New  England  at  about  this  time  as  in  1636    and    made   several   successful 

agent  for  Ferdinando  Gorges.   Catherine,  voyages  to  England  and  back  again. 
the   daughter    of    Alexander    Shaplcy, 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  807 

pease  to  the  value  of  two  bushells  or  therabouts  mid  round 
about  the  bag  Indian  huskcs  <fc  strawc  wcb  pease  being  put 
into  the  said  hoggshcad  of  pease  made  up  the  same  full  but 
there  being  only  two  or  three  cheeses  in  the  said  hoggshead 
of  girts  the  girts  remayning  were  but  two  bushells  or  ther- 
abouts  so  that  there  is  wanting  of  the  girts  about  5  bushells 
to  the  value  of  50s.  And  the  said  Wm  Ilolhvay  is  charged 
wth  twenty  eight  shillings  for  carryage  of  the  said  goods  from 
Pascattaway  to  Boston  wch  lie  ought  not  to  pay  And  lastly 
the  said  Will'"  Ilolhvay  complaineth  that  there  are  lost  of  the 
said  goods  of  the  value  of  81  12.  T.  divers  of  them  to  the  value 
of  six  pounds  twelve  shillings  or  thcrabouts  All  the  said 
wrongs  &  injuries  done  by  the  default  of  the  said  John  T  re- 
worthy  and  his  said  Grandfather  and  Richard  Pay.  To  the 
Pits  damniagc  91  18s  whereupon  he  brings  his  suit  And 
whereas  this  Compu  letters  and  bills  of  lading  are  kept  from 
him  by  the  said  dcfendts  so  that  the  plaint iffe  cannot  presently 
make  such  proofc  of  all  the  premises  as  is  requisite  lie 
humbly  prayeth  that  upon  consideration  of  that  proofc  wch  he 
can  make  the  money  demanded  by  the  defend18  for  freight  and 
other  charges  may  be  dcteyned  in  the  hands  of  ]>ltine  upon 
security  till  he  can  make  his  cause  fully  appoarc  by  proofc 
from  England.  And  the  Pit  submitts  himselfc  to  the  order 
of  the  Cork  [1*.  Grf.] 

John  King1  and  Mary  his  wife  heretofore  servants  to  the 
wor11  John  Ilumfrcy  Esqr  make  their  account  as  followeth. 

Thev  say  that  being  bound  to  serve  i'oure  yoaros  only  it 
was  agreed  that  they  should  ho  freed  when  they  cnmo  to  New 
England  for  two  daycs  worke  a  weekc  by  the  said  John  King 
only  for  seven  yeares  woh  comes  to  at  the  rate  of  twelve  pence 
a  day  meat  &  drinkc  3G-83. 

And  whereas  the  said  servants  did  serve  one  ycare  and  a 
'quarter  of  the  said  foure  yeares  the  same  being  valued  accord 
ing  to  the  said  rate  of  Gs  a  weeke  for  the  said  John  King  and 

1  This  was  a  year  before  IlumtVcy  in  Savage  as  having  a  daughter  Mary, 
left  the  country.  John  King  is  a  difli-  born  1039,  and  one  or  two  other 
cult  man  to  identify,  being  meivly  noted  children. 


308  LECUFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

three  shillings  a  wecke  for  his  said  wife  conies  to  291  5s. 
And  whcras  the  said  John  King  since  his  departure  hath 
served  the  said  John  llumfrcy  twelve  weekes  wch  conies  at 
the  said  rate  of  6s  a  wecke  to  oi  12s  in  all  321  17*  wch  ])Cjng 
deducted  out  of  the  said  3Gl  8s  There  remaynes  due  to  the 
said  John  Ilumfrey  31  11s. 

JOHN  KING       MARY  KING.  BOSTON  2  Sept.  ic-io. 

[1*.  GJ.] 

Thomas  Robinson  l  of  Scitnatc  complaines  against  Alice 
Tompson  widdowe  for  that  whcras  she  standeth  indebted 
unto  the  said  pltiffc  in  the  sunnne  of  one  hundred  three  score 
and  ten  pounds  to  be  payd  upon  certaine  dayes  agreed  on 
and  for  the  payment  of  parte  should  have  signed  certaine  bills 
of  exchange  to  be  payd  in  England  she  hath  refused  to  signe 
the;  said  billes  it  is  now  going  for  England  therefore  the  Plain- 
tiffe  humbly  craveth  that  the  said  defend*  may  put  in  better 
security  lor  the  discharge  of  the  said  debt  according  to  the 
agreement  aforesaid. 

[I*.]  THOMAS  ROBINSON. 

IMf  Tyng  for  2  Charter  partycs.      [5s.] 

M!"  Robert  Saltonstall  a  declaration  and  brcviat. 

[174]  2  In  the  matter  behveene  Andrew  Coleman  &  Wil- 
liam  Swift  it  is  ordered  by  the  Court  that  whereas  heretofore 

1  Thomas  llobinson,  of  Scitnatc,  was  unimportant  differences,  may  be  found 
not   the  mariner  of  the  same  name  of  in   the  M<(ss.    Col.   lice.,   i.   2D3.      The 
whom  mention  has  l>een  made  before,  last  paragraph,  in  regard  to  the  arrest  of 
He  married  the  daughter  of  John  Cogan  Goodman    Swift    and    the    suit    about 
(Mary)   in  KM'J,  and  subsequently   (at  Smithman    and    Stacey,  is    not   in    the 
her  death),  Elizabeth  Sherman,  both  of  llccord.     Jn  its  place  is  this  paragraph, 
whom  were  at  the  time  widows.     It  is  immediately  following  that  ending  "as 
to  be  hoped  that  his  troubles  with  the  shall  be  agreeable  to  equity: "- 
widow     Thompson    were    of    a    purely  "  If  the  Court  be  pleased  to  record 
financial   nature.      Whether  Thompson  this  order,  I  consent  to  it. 
was  her  maiden  name,  or  the  name  of  «jo.  HAYNES." 
her  husband,  is  hardly  more  than  mat 
ter  for  remote  conjecture.  The  paper  in  the   Colonial  Record  is 
a  This  same  document,  with  certain  headed,   "A  Record  of  a  Former  Busi- 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  309. 

the  said  Andrew  Ooleman  by  his  letter  of  Attorney  dated  the 
[blank]  day  of  [blank]  Anno  Dili  1636  made  unto  John  Haynes 
Esqr  gave  him  power  &  authority  to  sue  and  compound  wth 
the  said  Willm  Swift  for  &  upon  one  bond  of  C1  bearing  date 
the  [blank]  day  of  [blank]  in  the  ycare  1635  wherein  the  said 
"Will™  Swift  as  a  suerty  was  bound  wth  Roger  Spring  principal! 
debtor  and  Josiah  Smith  of  Bermondsey  streete  leather-dresser 
another  suerty  for  the  payment  of  fifty  two  pounds  upon  a 
certainc  day  past  And  thereupon  the  said  John  Haynes  agreed 
&  compounded  wth  the  said  William  Swift  and  the  said  William 
Swift  mortgaged  his  house  &  lands  at  Watcrtowne  aforesaid 
unto  the  said  John  Haynes  in  bchalfe  of  the  said  Andrew 
Coleman  by  one  deed  or  writing  made  in  or  about  the  moneth 
of  [blank]  in  the  yeare  1636  And  whereas  the  said  Will™ 
Swift  alleadgcth  that  the  said  Andrew  Coleman  hath  already 
recovered  for  the  said  debt  the  suminc  of  eighteen  pounds  & 
five  shillings  from  John  Smithman  &  Willm  Stacy  jun  of 
Booking  Clothiers  wch  they  owed  to  the  said  Will™  Swift  wch 
comes  to  halfc  of  the  same  debt  wanting  but  five  shillings 
and  that  halfe  thereof  is  as  much  in  equity  as  he  being  a 
suerty  wth  another  ought  to  pay  and  the  other  suerty  the  said 
Josiah  Smith  being  a  man  of  sufficient  estate  ought  to  pay 
the  other  halfe.  And  that  since  the  said  mortgage  the  said 
Andrew  Coleman  hath  contrary  to  the  said  agreement  arrested 
and  troubled  the  said  Will™  Swift  in  England  for  the  said 
debt  and  recovered  from  him  seven  pounds  <fc  ten  shillings 
more  wch  in  all  being  twenty  five  pounds  and  fiftecnc  shillings. 
This  Court  hath  ordered  that  the  possession  of  the  said  house 
&  lands  shall  remaine  in  the  hands  of  the  said  John  Haynes 
till  midsommer  next  to  the  end  the  said  Will™  Swift  may 

ness;"  but  I  Lave  been  unable  to  dis-  Savage  says,  came  from  Docking  was  the 

cover  any  trace  of  it  before  this  date,  same  man  as  the  above-mentioned,  for 

Haynes   was   at    this   time    Lieutenant  Savage  goes  on,  "  Sold  his  estate  1637, 

Governor  of  Connecticut.    Andrew  Cole-  and  removed,    probably  to   Sandwich; 

man  does  not  appear  in  Savage,  and  of  there    died    January,     1644."     It    was 

Swift  Savage  seems  to  have  known  lit-  about  midsummer,  1G37,  that  Swift  was 

tie  that  he  did  not  gain  from  the  above  arrested  and  imprisoned  in  Whitechapel. 

paper,  except  that  he  was  of  Watertown  Of  his  son  Edward  "  that  was  prentice  " 

and   came   before    1634.     Indeed   it   is  there  is  no  mention  in  New  England 

doubtful  if  the  William  Swift  who,  as  authorities. 


310  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

make  what  proofe  he  can  of  the  premises  in  the  mcane  time 
And  then  this  Court  will  set  downe  a  finall  order  in  the 
premises  as  shall  be  agreeable  to  equity. 

Goodman  Swift  was  arrested  about  Midsomer  1637  &  im 
prisoned  in  White  chapel  &  at  yc  pye  without  Algate  payd  to 
Joshua  Smith  &  Mf  Heath  the  Scrivener  7*  10s.  The  suit 
ag  Smithman  &  Staccy  was  in  Guildhall  1G3G  Edward  Swift 
his  sonnc  that  was  prentice  with  George  Andrewes  butcher  in 
Eastchcape  little  Eastcheape.  [And  a  letter.  3s.  6d.  Is.  Qd. 
Write  to  goodman  Swift  at  Sandwich  the  letters  to  be  left 
with  goodman  Buttolph  glover  in  Boston.] 

1  Will™  Eliott  master  of  the  shippe  Charles  of  Bristoll  John 
Searchfield  of  Bristoll  merchant  and  Hugh  Courtney  of  the 
same  merch1  and  Valentine  Hill  of  Boston  in  New  England 
merchant  bound  to  Henry  Woolcott  &  Samuell  Wakeman  in 
C1.  Condiconed  to  pay  <fc  satisfie  to  the  Obligees  for  all  such 
goods  as  shall  be  found  wanting  by  the  Boatsons  books  <t 
found  by  the  men  assigned  by  the  Court  viz*  Mr  John  Cogan 
&  M?  Will1"  Peircc  by  the  next  quarter  Court  held  at  Boston 
in  December  next,  except  those  goods  already  recovered  2 
Sept  1640.  [Is.  GJ.] 

M!  John  Cogan 2  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Mr  Will"1 
Blackallow  of  Exon  mercli1  to  receive  <fc  recover  all  Leg- 
acys  given  unto  him  or  his  wife  or  children  by  Mr  Ignatius 

1  This  entry  is  interesting  as  bring-  inent  merchants  of  Boston,  and  Pierce 

ing  together  the  names  of  several  promi-  was  a  noted  shipmaster.     Of  the  Bristol 

nent  New  England  merchants.    Samuel  merchants    I    am  sorry  to  say   I   have 

Wakeman  was  one  of  the  earliest  set-  no  knowledge.    The  ship  "Charles"  was 

tiers  at  Hartford,  having  before  lived  in  owned  by  Mr.  Thomas  Elbridge,  alder- 

lioxbury  and  Cambridge.    About  a  year  man  of  Bristol,   as  we  may  sec  in  the 

after  this  time  he  was   killed  (together  accounts  which  appear  later, 
with   Captain   "William    Pierce)    in    the          2  This  would  seem  as  though   Mrs. 

course  of  a  voyage  to  the  West  Indies,  Ann  Cogan  had  been  a  Jordan  before 

having  been  "sent  with  goods  to  buy  marriage.     The  name  Dominicus  Jordan, 

cotton"     (JVintltrop,    ii.    33).      Henry  which  appears  in  Scarborough  towards 

Wolcott  was  also  of  Connecticut.     He  the   end   of   the   seventeenth    century, 

was  a  prominent  man  in  Windsor,  and  seems  as  if  it  might  be  in  some  way  con- 

a  large  merchant.     Valentine  Hill  and  nected  with  the  late  Ignatius  Jordan. 
John  Cogan  were  t\vo  of  the  most  prom- 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  311 

Jordan  of  Exon  Alderman  deceased.     3  Sept  1640.     [Is.  pd 
in  corn.] 

John  Clerke1  of  Xewberry  in  New  England  late  Citizen 
and  Chirurgion  of  London  one  of  the  Executors  of  the  last 
will  and  Testament  of  Anne  Ward  late  of  Stratford  in  the 
County  of  Suff  widdow  deceased  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney 
to  Edmund  Sherman  of  Bcdham  in  the  County  of  Essex 
Clothier  to  receive  <fc  recover  all  rents  issues  &  prontts  and. 
arreagcs  of  rents  whatsoever  issuing  out  of  any  Lands  &  tene 
ments  whatsoever  in  the  Towncs  of  East  or  West  Mersey  or 
clswhere  in  the  County  of  Essex  due  <fe  belonging  to  John 
Ward  Sonne  <fc  heirc  of  John  Ward  of  Stratford  aforesd 
Clothier  deceased  [175]  by  vertue  of  the  Last  will  and.  testa 
ment  of  the  said  John  Ward  and  of  the  said  last  will  and 
testament  of  the  said  Anne  Ward  or  one  of  them  and  by 
vertue  of  the  same  payable  unto  me  during  the  nonage  of  the 
John  Ward  the  sonne  and  the  prontts  revennues  &  income  of 
two  shippes  <fc  other  rights  belonging  to  the  said  John  Ward 
by  vertue  of  the  aforesaid  wills  &  testaments  or  one  of  them. 

John  Pierce  of  Hartford  in  Connecticot  an  Inhabitant 
Certifycd.  [Is.] 

A  letter  of  Attorney  by  Will™  Talmage  Thomas  Talmage 
and  Robert  Talin  :  aforesaid  and  Richard  Walker  to  Mr  Ralfe 
King  peut  devant  to  receive  the  money  of  the  said  Overseers 
dat  3°  Sept  1G40.  A  Ccrtificat  under  the  pub:  scale.  [2s.  Od.] 

RIGHT  WORTHY  SIR.  I  sent  you  at  my  first  landing  here  an 
unwise  letter  of  which  I  [deserved  ?]  to  receive  no  answer,  — 

1  There  were  two  physicians  of  the  stall,  and  survived  him  for  sixteen  years 

name  of  John  Clarke  in  New  England  at  more  or  less,  during  which  time  it  may 

this  time.     The  one  was  John  Clarke  of  be  inferred  she  subsisted  on  the  proceeds 

Newport,   who   had   been  driven   from  of  certain  patent  stoves  invented  by  her 

Boston   with   Mrs.    Hutchinson.      The  husband.     (See  Mass.  Col.  Rcc.t  iv.  104, 

other,  here  mentioned,  was  of  Newbury  260. )     Ths  patent  was  granted  to  her 

at  this  time,  but  later  moved  to  Boston,  husband  only  for  life,  but  at  his  death 

where  he  died  in  1664.      His  wife,  Mar-  there  were  many  stoves  left  which  came 

tlui,  was  the  sister  of  Sir  Richard  Salton-  to  her  by  his  will. 


312  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

I  cannot  forget  my  respect  towards  you  and  your  worthy  and 
beloved  family,  my  good  lady  and  all  your  dear  and  hopeful 
children,  as  in  my  [poor  ?]  supplications  I  remember  dayly. 
In  a  word  or  two,  we  heare  of  great  disturbances  in  our  dearc 
native  countrcy  ;  lam  heartily  sorry  that  I  had  [ever  hand  ?] 
in  some  of  the  [causes  ?].  I  beseech  you  take  my  bricfe 
opinion ;  we  here  are  quite  out  of  the  way  of  right  govern 
ment  both  in  Church  and  Commonwealth,  as  I  verily  think, 
and  as  far  as  I  can  judge  upon  better  consideration,  and 
some  pains  taken  in  searching  after  the  bottome  of  some 
things.  Poure  Electoric  wayes  tried  to  the  overthrow  of 
Kingdomes : 

No  such  way  for  government  of  Englishmen,  as  a  Mon 
archic  ;  of  Christians  as  by  Diocesan  Bishops  or  Evangelists 
in  their  line.  Better  yeeld  to  many  pressures  in  a  Monarchic: 
then  for  subjects  to  destroy  and  spoile  one  another,  [as  I 
fear  we  must  do  here-long  before  we  come  to  any  settledness 
either  in  Church  or  Commonwealth.]  If  I  were  worthy  to 
advise  a  word,  I  should  desire  you  to  have  a  care,  and  so  all 
your  friends,  you  prejudice  not  your  estate,  or  posterity,  by 
too  much  opposing  the  Regall  power ;  For  I  verily  beleeve 
the  King's  Majesty  hath  in  general  a  good  cause  touching 
Episcopacie  [against  the  Sectaries].  My  reasons  I  could 
better  deliver  in  presence,  if  haply  Cod  give  opportunity  to 
see  you,  or  if  you  require  it  hereafter,  I  will  be  ready  to 
present  my  thoughts  unto  you ;  all  this,  as  I  shall  answer 
before  the  Lord,  without  any  by-respects.  If  you  were  here 
I  presume  you  would  see  more  than  I  can,  but  I  think  you 
would  be  much  of  my  mind.  I  hear  that  you  [required  ?] 
that  201  I  owed  you  of  Mr.  Hill.  God's  will  be  done. 
I  am  not  able  to  pay  it  yet,  but  shall  be  mindfull,  God 
willing  to  discharge  it  as  soon  as  I  can.  I  am  thankfull 
and  desire  to  be  yet  more  thankfull  to  you  for  the  loan  of 
it.  If  you  hear  anything  of  me  specially  from  Mr.  Ilooke 
or  his  wife,  pray  keep  an  car  for  me,  for  we  have  had  some 
[several  words  erased~\.  I  wish  you  knew  how  I  am  used: 
For  this  time  thus  I  take  my  leave  heartily  recommending 
your  worship  and  all  yours  to  the  guidance  and  [undecipherable^ 


LECHFORD'S   MAXCSCRJPT  NOTE-BOOK.  313 

of  his  heavenly  majesty,  resting  yours  in  all   service  to   l>o 
commanded. 

THOMAS  LKCIIKOUD. 

Thomas  Starres  of  Windsor  in  Conncticot  [I*-]  ;  Robert 
Parker  of  Wctlicrsiicld  in  Connecticut  [Ls.]  ;  Richard  Payne 
of  the  same  [Is],  —  certified  that  they  are  there  inhabitants1 
4  Sept  1040. 

TJic  forme  of  a  bill  of  lading 

Shipped  by  the  grace  of  God  in  good  order  and  well  con 
diconed  by  L  K.  in  and  upon  the  ship  called  the  M  ct  B  <>f  L 
whereof  is  Master  under  God  for  this  present  voyage  J.  L>. 
and  now  riding  at  anchor  in  the  p  of  J  and  by  Gods  grace 
bound  for  the  p  of  1>.  in  N  E  to  say  fowcr  hogsheads  of  Conic 
being  marked  and  numbered  as  in  the  margcnt  and  are  to  be 
delivered  in  the  like  good  order  and  well  condiconed  at  the 
abovcsayd  Port  of  13.  (the  danger  of  the  seas  only  exeeptcd) 
and  the  said  I  K  or  to  his  assignes  he  or  they  paying  fraight 
for  the  said  goods  ct  wth  primage  and  average  accustomed  or 
to  his  assignes  the  fraight  being  alreddy  payd  wth  primage  and 
average  accustomed.  In  witncs  whereof  the  master  or  purser 
of  the  said  shippe  hath  affirmed  to  three  bills  of  lading  all  of 
this  Tenor  &  Date  the  one  of  \vch  three  bills  being  accomplished 
the  other  two  to  stand  voyd.  And  so  God  send  the  good  ship 
to  her  desired  port  in  safety  Amen  dated  in  L  the  5*  day  of 
September  Anno  Dili  1640.  outwardly  well  condiconed  the 
contents  I  know  not  p :  me  1.  13.  [L  K.] 

CIIARLESTOWNI-;  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  8  Sept  10-10. 

SR  Upon  eight  dayes  after  sight  of  this  my  first  bill  of 
Exchange  my  second  £  third  not  being  payd  1  pray  you  be 
pleased  to  pay  unto  John  Chickley  2  of  Boston  in  New  Eng 
land  aforesaid  or  his  assiimcs  the  summe  of  one  hundred  and 

O 

1  If  Savage  had  seen  tins  entry,  I  2  John  Chickley  is  one  of  those  of 
think  he  would  have  added  three  more  whom  nothing'  can  be  found  at  present, 
names  to  his  Genealogical  Dictionary.  For  William  Bernard,  see  p.  138,  ante. 


314  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

twenty  pounds  starling  wch  is  for  so  much  lieere  received  by 
me  of  him  I  beseech  you  make  good  payement  and  place  it  to 
account  as  p.  advice. 

Yor  loving  kinsman 

WM  BERNARD. 

To  my  very  loving  Cosin  M^   THOMAS  FREE  merch*  at  his  warehouse  at 
the  George  in  Lumbard  streate  London. 

Thomas  Hawkins  of  Boston  in  New  England  baker  bound 
to  John  Pollard  ]  of  Boston  in  lf>i  to  be  payd  29  Sept  1640. 
for  wch  payment  he  is  bound  in  301  to  be  payd  at  John  Buttons 
house.  30  Julii  1G40.  mei.  [Gd.] 

lice  to  make  red  wax  llosscu  &  bees  wax  2*  oyle  4  ounces 
turpentine  4  ounces  vcrmillion  8  ounces,  for  winter  temper 
the  same  quantity  of  wax  and  rossen  wth  4  ounces  of  turpentine 
and  ll  of  oyle.  MT  Sherman.2 

[176]  I  am  summoned  to  appear  in  Court  tomorrow,  being 
the  1st  of  10th  1G40.  The  Lord  God  direct  me. 

Willm  Wellington3  of  Portsmouth  planter  assignes  his 
servant  Richard  llaynes  unto  John  Budd  of  Quinapeage 

1  The  Note-look  mentions  John  Pol-  tain    Keayne    in    the    matter    of    the 

lard  briefly  after  this  in  several  places,  stray  sow,  —  of  which  some  mention  is 

but  in  each  place  in  some  business  con-  made  in  the   latter   part  of  the  Nut.c- 

nection.     He  may  be  barely  mentioned  louk  (post,  p.  234). 

by  Savage,  or  it  may  be  another  of  the  8  William  Withington  was  (ante,  p. 

same   name   who   is   there   noted,     Ho  119)    of  Newport.      At   this   time   the 

would  seem  to  have  been  a  small  busi-  two  towns  of  Portsmouth  and  Newport 

ness  man  who  attended  so  carefully  to  were    embraced    in    one    body    politic, 

his  own  concerns  as  to  escape  the  big  Portsmouth   had  been  settled  first   by 

books  of  the  Town  Clerk  or  the  Secretary  William    Ilntchinson,    Aspinwall   Cod- 

of  the  Colony.     John  Mutton  had  throe  dington,  John  Clarke,  and  others  ;  but 

houses  on  the  road  leading  west  from  certain  dissensions  occurring,  Codding- 

Bendall's  Dock,  now  called  Elm  Street  ton  and  others  were  cast  out  of  the  body, 

(according  to  Lamb's  map  ;  0,  21,  Hook  and   Ilutchinson  was  chosen  judge  in 

of  Posacaniuiifi).  the  place   of  Codding  ton.      The   latter 

2  This  Mr.  Sherman  I  imagine,  upon  with -his  adherents  removed  to  the  spot 

some  slight  evidence,  to  be  the  husband  which  is  now  the  city  of  Newport,  and 

of    the   woman    who    gained    notoriety  formed    a    separate   body.      In   a  little 

by  her   persistent   opposition   to    Cap-  more  than  a  year,  however,  the  inhabi- 


LECUF01WS  MANUSCRIPT  XUTE-BUOK. 


115 


planter1  from  24  Mali  ult1  for  5  ycarcs  10  7br  1040.  for  201  in 
cattcll  or  worke.     [10t?.] 

A  bill  to  pay  the  201  viz1  in  ciittell  1'2»  to  M?  [Wank]  Oood- 
ycr2  of  Quinapeagc  within  a  fortnight  or  5  dayes  after  sight, 
and  81  in  cattell  in  December  1040.  [1s.  0(7.] 

BOSTON  IN  NK\V  ENGLAND  10.  7.  1G10. 

Upon  5  dayes  after  sight  of  this  my  first  bill  of  exchange 
my  second  &  third  not  being  payd  1  pray  you  pay  unto  i\K 
(Jooddicr8  who  came  over  this  yeare  in  tlie  ship  St.  John  of 
London  or  his  assigncs  the  value  of  twelve  pounds  in  cattcll 
wch  is  for  so  much  licere  received  of  Will1"  Withington  of 
Rode  Island4  Carpenter  1  pray  make  good  payment  and  place 
it  to  account  as  by  advice.  [MT  Will™  James  of  Quinapeagc.] 

Billa  Salubritatis  bona  navis  vocat'  Prospera5  de  Dart 
mouth  oneris  100  dolior'  vel  circitcr  Ejus  nancterus  sive 


tants  of  Portsmouth  were,  at  their  own 
request,  united  to  the  people  of  Newport, 
ami  Coddington  was  chosen  Governor, 
with  Ilutchiiison  as  one  of  the  assistants. 

1  John     l»udd    was    long    after   this 
(1664   and   later)   a   prominent  man  in 
New  Haven,     lie  held  the  office  of  lieu 
tenant,  and  also  of  representative. 

2  Mr.  Stephen  Goodyear  was  a  Lon 
don  merchant  who  lived  in  New  Haven 
from  1638   to   1656.     He  was  assistant 
during  his  earlier  residence,  and  Deputy 
Governor   during   his  later   stay.     His 
wife  went  home  some  time  before  him, 
and  was  wrecked  on  the  way  to  London 
in  a  vessel  of  Mr.  George  Lamberton's, 
which  was  lost  with  all  on  board.     Mr. 
Goodyear  consoled  himself  by  marriage 
with  Mrs.    Lambcrton,   with  whom   he 
went    back    to    London.      One    of    his 
daughters   became  the  wife   of  Samuel 
Wakeman,  of  whom  mention  was  made 
just  above. 

3  Although  Savage  puts  1633  as  the 
date  of  Stephen  Good  year's  magistracy 


at  New  Haven,  I  must  think  that  this 
is  the  same  man.  Andrew,  the  son  of 
Stephen,  was  not  born  until  1640.  It  may 
be  that  John  Goodyear,  the  brother  (?) 
of  Stephen  is  referred  to  in  both  cases. 
Of  this  latter  little  is  known  save  his 
•residence  at  New  Haven. 

4  Palfrey    says    that    the    name    of 
Rhode  Island  was  given  to  the  island 
of  llhode  Island  in  1614.    This  mention 
is  nearly  three  years  before  that  time. 

5  I  do  not  find  any  mention  at  all  of 
the  "  Prospera  "  of  Dartmouth.     Even 
in    the    Wiuthrnp    Papers,    where    tlie 
name  of  the  ship  bringing  the  letter  is 
often  indorsed  on  the  back  of  it,  there 
is   no   trace   of   the   "  Prospera."      It  is 
probable  enough  that  the   "Prospera" 
seldom  came  to  Boston,  her  chief  busi 
ness    naturally    bring    at    Piseataqua, 
where    the.    three    Treworthys    were    in 
business.      Owen    Williams   is   on    the 
freeman's  list  at  Newport  in   1.6.">5.      He 
afterwards    moved   to  Norwich,   Conn., 
and  there  died  in  16S2. 


316 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


magister    Nicholaus    Treworthy   huius    ad    numcro    21.  —  15 
Sept  1040.  [Is.  Gil] 

A  payrc  of  Indentures  bctwccnc  Timothy  Hawkins  and 
Henry  Smitli  &  Edward  [Mcwifc]  his  house  lands  &  conic  to 
them  &  their  hcircs  3.  7.  1640.  [2s.  Gd.] 

Owen  Williams  sonnc  of  Markc  Williams  of  St.  Johns  parish 
in  the  County  of  Cardiffe  placeth  himself  c  Apprentice  to 
Willm  Withington  of  Portsmouth  in  New  England  Carpenter 
from  16  September  1640  for  six  yeares  5*  at  the  ende  &  double 
apparell.  [2s.  Oti] 

Will171  Withington  and  John  Lowe1  wheclcwright  bound  to 
Philip  Gibb2  nauter  in  71  to  be  payd  16  October  next  in 
Boston. 


Harman  Garrctt3  of  Charlestowne  in  New  England  Gun 
smith  covenants  wtu  John  Edwards  of  the  same  blacksmith 


1  John  Lowe  was  of  Boston,  and,  as 
is  here  said,  a  wheelwright  by  his  trade. 
His  shop  was  along  by  the  water-side 
north  of  the  Town  Dock,  and  near  the 
sawpits  in  Richard  Bellingham's  marsh, 
of  which  mention  has  been  made.    Good 
man   Lowe  lie  is   called   in   the    Town 
Accords,  where  he  is  seldom  mentioned, 
though    references   to    his  house   occur 
more  than  once. 

2  There  is  more  to  be  found  in  Lech- 
ford's  Note-look  about  Philip  Gibb  than 
in  all  other  New   England  authorities 
put  together,   where  he  is  conspicuous 
only  by   his   almost   absolute   absence. 
As  we  shall  find  later,  he  was  the  agent 
of  James  Gammon   and   Thomas  Har- 
wood,  merchants  of  Barnstaple,  in  the 
County  of  Devon,   neither  of  whom,  I 
am  very  sure,  ever  came  to  New  Eng 
land,  although  the  name  Thomas  liar- 
wood  occurs  in  Savage.     There  are  in 
the  Note-book  notices  of  business  trans 
actions  between  Gibb  (sometimes  acting 


for  Hanvood  and  Gammon,  and  some 
times  with  no  reference  to  them),  and 
Richard  Parker  and  John  Cogan,  and  I 
have  no  doubt  that  he  had  to  do  with 
other  Boston  merchants.  That  his  name 
does  not  occur  in  Savage  is  not  remark 
able,  for  ho  probably  never  went  to 
church,  married,  had  Children,  died, 
committed  a  crime,  or  held  an  office  in 
New  England, —  the  principal  methods 
by  which  many  of  his  time  made  them 
selves  known  to  posterity  and  to  Mr. 
Savage.  The  only  mention  of  him 
I  can  recall  is  in  the  Colonial  Record 
(vol.  i.  p.  o31»),  where  he  is  called  "  Mr. 
Philip  Gibs,"  or  "Mr.  Gibs,"  which 
seems  as  if  he  were  a  person  of  some 
consideration. 

8  Harman  Garrett  (or  Herman,  as  it 
is  generally  spelled)  was  a  blacksmith 
as  well  as  gunsmith  at  Charlestown, 
where  he  lived  from  1638  to  1652,  when 
he  moved  to  Boston.  It  is  not  impos 
sible  that  John  Edwards  may  have 


LECIJFORD'S   MAXlSSCnil'T  NOTE-BOOK.  317 

to  instruct  him  in  the  art  of  a,  gunsmith  according'  to  the  host 
of  his  skill  within  the  space  of  one  yeare  next  ensuing  &  that 
the  said  John  shall  have  tin;  one  halfc  of  the  prod  Its  of  his 
owne  worke  in  that  art  during  the  said  tcnne  tv  for  this  he  is 
to  pay  the  said  Ilarman  live  pounds  <t  ten  shillings  within  3 
moneths  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  dated  IT.  7.  1040.  And 
after  the  said  terme  the  said  John  is  not  to  sett  up  the  said 
trade  in  Charlcstownc  aforesaid  unlessc  that  he  buy  the  house 
of  the  said  Ilarman  for  such  reasonable  price  as  shall  be 
agreed  on  by  4  men  indifferently  to  be  chosen  betweene  them 
and  then  the  said  Ilarman  is  to  departe  from  the  said  to\vne. 
[1-0.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Henry  Gray  of 
Boston  in  New  England  tayler  doe  hereby  give  grant  enfc- 
offe  and  confirme  unto  Thomas  Lechford  gent  all  that  my 
Dwelling  house  &  garden  thereunto  belonging  lying  &  being  in 
Boston  aforesaid  contcyning  in  breadth  towards  the  strcat  syde 
\_blank^  foot  or  thereabouts  and  at  the  farther  end  of  the  said 
garden  [Mmfc]  foot  or  thcrabouts  wth  the  appurtenances  To  have 
and  to  hold  the  said  house  and  garden  and  all  ct  singularc  the 
premises  wlh  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Thomas  Lech- 
ford  his  heircs  and  assignes  for  ever  And  furthermore  1  the 
said  Henry  doc  hereby  grant  for  me  &  my  heires  that  we  will 
warrant  to  the  aforesaid  Thomas  and  his  heircs  the  aforesaid 
tenements  wth  the  appurtenances  against  me  the  said  Henry 
and  Lydia  my  wife  and  my  heires  and  all  manner  of  person 
and  persons  lawfully  clayming  from  by  and  under  me  or  them 
or  any  of  them  for  ever  In  witnesse  &c.  18.  7.  1040. 

[177]  Mf  Will™  Hutchinson  of  Portsmouth  in  Aquedncckc 
of  Rode  Island  gent  and  Edward  Hutchinson  his  sonne  & 
heirc  apparent  sell  unto  Mr  Will"1  Tyng  merchant  one  hun 
dred  and  fifty  acres  of  land 1  or  therabouts  being  parte  of  the 

moved    to    "Wethersfield,    where    there  l  I  wish  I  could  be  sure   that   this 

was  one  of  that  name  who  came  from  land  was  that  of  which  an  entry  is  made 

the    neighborhood   of    Watertown   (see  in    the    Town   Record  as   being    "att 

pout,  pp.  223,  225).  Mount   AVoolystone   beyond    Mr.    Cod- 


318  LECH  FORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

great  Lott  of  the  said  Will™  Ilutchinson  at  Brayntree  lying 
next  tlic  lands  of  tlie  said  Wm  Tyng  bctwccne  the  dead 
swampc  there  and  Mountwollaston  brookc  for  133  4d  an 
acre  lialfe  to  be  payd  in  land  &  halfe  at  12  moncths  end. 
18.  7.  1G40. 

Margaret  Stubbin  wife  of  John  Stubbin  of  Watertownc  in 
New  England  aged  thirty  yeares  sworne  saitli  upon  her  oath 
that  in  or  about  the  moncth  of  October  last  was  twelve  muncth 
she  bought  &  received  of  Moyscs  Cox  l  now  of  Hampton  in 
New  England  at  Ipswich  in  New  England  when  he  was  going 
to  live  first  at  Hampton  aforesaid  so  much  tryed  suet  as  was 
worth  ten  shillings  or  thcrabouts  wch  she  payd  unto  him  and 
that  then  at  Ipswich  aforesaid  the  said  Moyses  spent  some 
smalc  quantity  of  fruit  &  cheese  wch  he  brought  wth  him  in 
this  deponents  presence  the  certaine  value  whereof  she  cannot 
remember  19.  7.  1G40.  [Is.] 

Edward  Bridges  second  sonnc  of  E  B  late  of  Raynham  in 
C  Somst  Esqr  makes  a  lcr  of  Attorney  &  assignment  to  Will™ 
Hudson  of  Boston  Inkceper  to  rec  &  recover  of  &  from 
Richard  Jackson2  of  Cambridge  41  21.  7.  1G40.  [6U] 

Natlianiell  Patten3  late  of  Crcwkernc  in  the  County  of 
Somst  yeoman  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Henry  Andrewes 
of  Taunton  in  New  England  planter  to  sue  Will1"  Holloway 

dington's  farme  and  Mr.  Wilson's  into  3  Nathaniel  Patten,  it  would  sccin, 

the  country  adjoining  to  Dorchester  had  but  just  come  over;  for  a  week  after 

bounds."  I  think,  however,  that  this  this  date  he  purchased  a  house  and  land 

is  the  lot  spoken  of  from  later  passages  in  Dorchester  of  one  Eels,  as  may  l>e  read 

in  the  J\\>tc-book  (pp.  212,  214),  and  also  in  the  Fourth  Report  of  the  Record  Com- 

a  later  passage  in  the  Town  .Records  inissioners.  His  name  occurs  frequently 

(pp.  7-{.>)-  afterwards  in  various  ways.  He  was 

1  Moses  Cox,  of  Hamilton,  and  Mar-  selectman  in  1657  and  1G58,  and  died 

garet,  the  wife  of  John  Stebhins,  of  in  1661,  leaving  no  children,  as  Savage 

Watertown,  are  both  in  Savage;  but  I  supposes.  Henry  Andrewes  was  one  of 

find  no  mention  of  the  tried  suet.  the  first  settlers  of  Taunton,  and  rep  re  - 

3  Richard  Jackson,  of  Cambridge,  was  sentative  1639-1644.  William  Hollo- 

a  man  of  note  in  the  town  for  many  way,  of  Taunton,  was  there  for  a  few 

years,  being  representative  to  the  Gen-  years  only,  and  in  1652  moved  to 

eral  Court.  Doston. 


LECIIFORD'S  MANL'SCRII'T  NOTE-BOOK.  819 

of  Taimton  aforesaid  planter  or  mercer  for  10*  for  one  cowe 
wch  was  Will™  Bownes J  sold  unto  him  by  M?  Nicholas  Strecte. 
[0  ga  acquaint.] 

2  BOSTON  August  8  1030. 

Loving  friend  Mf  Hobson  I  pray  you  pay  unto  Mr  .Roger 
Clay  factor  of  Blackwell  Hall  or  his  assigncs  within  thirty 
clayes  after  sight  of  this  my  first  bill  my  second  or  third  not 
being  payd  the  summe  of  one  hundred  pounds  being  for  so 
much  received  hccrc  of  My  John  Oogan  and  put  it  to  account 
as  p  advice  I  rest  yor  loving  ffriend  Nathanacll  Eaton.  Lower 
is  written  To  the  wornhis  loving  firicnd  M*  John  Ilol)son  mer 
chant  in  Coleman  strecte.  dd. 

On  the  seven  and  twentieth  day  of  the  moncth  of  February 
Anno  Bui  according  to  the  computation  of  the  Church  of 
England  one  thousand  six  hundred  nyne  &  thirty  and  in  the 
fifteenth  ycare  of  the  raignc  of  our  Soveraigne  Lorcle  King 
Charles  <tc  at  the  instance  and  request  of  Mr  Roger  Clay 
factor  of  Blackwcll  I  Tall  London  I  Josua  Mainctt  Notary  and 
Tabellion  publicke  dwell  ing  in  this  City  of  London  by  the 
Authority  of  the  said  Kings  Matlc  admitted  ami  sworue  re 
quired  Mf  John-  Hobson  merchant  dwelling  in  Coleman  strecte 
in  London  for  to  pay  the  summe  of  one  hundred  pounds  men 
tioned  in  a  certainc  originall  bill  of  exchange  unto  him  shcwen 
and  whereof  the  Coppy  hcrebefore  is  written  word  for  worde 
seeing  he  acknowledged  to  have  scene  the  same  bill  of  ex 
change  above  thirty  clayes  agone  whereupon  the  said  John 
Hobson  answered  that  for  want  of  provision  from  the  drawer 
he  would  not  pay  the  said  bill  of  exchange,  wch  answere  I 

1  William    Downes    can    hardly   ho  2  Why  this  hill  of  exchange,  with  the 

identified    hy   the    fact    that    he    once  protest  thereof,  was  not  inserted  above, 

bought  a  cow  from  Mr.  Nicholas  Stroete.  p.   147,  where  it  belongs,  is  not  clear. 

The    last-named  was  at    this  time  the  It   is   perfectly  possible   that  Lech  ford 

minister  at  Tannton,  and  we  may  hope  did  not  then  have  it  in  his  possession, 

that  he  was  paid   for   the   cow,    which  Eaton  was  about  this  time  in  Virginia, 

might  easily  have  been  his  whole  quar-  where   our   friend   Governor   Winthrop 

ter's  salary.    He  was  afterwards  minister  says  he  was  given  up  "  to  extreme  pride 

in  New  Haven  in  place  of  Hooke,  who  and  sensuality,  being  usually  drunken, 

had  been  his  colleague  in  Taunton.  as  the  custom  is  there." 


320  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

the  said  Notary  having  heard  have  in  the  name  and  at  instance 
as  aforesaid  protested  even  as  1  doe  protest  by  these  presents 
for  want  of  payment  of  the  said  bill  of  exchange  and  recharge 
and  for  all  costs  dammages  and  interests  by  reason  [178] 
thereof  already  snstcyned  and  suffered  and  yet  to  be  suffered 
and  sustevned  as  well  against  Nathaniel!  Eaton  drawer  or  sub 
scriber  of  the  said  bill  of  exchange  as  against  all  others  in  the 
said  exc?  in  any  wise  bound  for  to  recover  all  the  same  of 
them  or  of  their  goods  in  time  &  place  as  of  right  shall  apper- 
teyne  to  me  Thus  done  &  protested  in  this  City  of  London 
in  the  presence  of  John  Daniell  and  George  Kellam  witnesses 
hereunto  called  and  required.  Quod  attestes  rogatus  et 
requisitus. 

1G39.  JOSUA  MAINETT  Note  pubcus 

JOHN  GREENLAND1  carpenter  petlcons  thb    Court 

That  yor  pcticoner  hath  bin  an  inhabitant  in  Charlestowne 
by  the  space  of  two  yeares  last  past  and  all  that  while 
sojourned  in  other  mens  houses  because  he  had  none  of  his 
owne  at  length  he  spake  to  some  of  the  Townesmen  to  entreate 
them  to  be  a  meanes  to  the  rest  that  he  might  have  a  house 
lott  given  him  whereon  he  might  build  an  house  but  he  received 
answerc  that  the  Townc  had  no  house  lott  to  give  &  therefore 
the  said  townesmen  wished  him  to  buy  one  AVhereupon  yor 
pcticoner  hath  bought  of  Samuel  Richardson  of  Charlestowne 
five  acres  of  land  within  Charlestowne  bounds  on  Misticke 
syde  nearc  to  Thomas  Moulton  &  the  widdow  Wilkins  and  hath 
begun  &  halfc  built  his  house  upon  it  as  yor  peticoner  con- 
ceiveth  it  was  lawfull  for  him  to  do  seeing  that  he  hath  built 
on  five  acres  of  ground  Notwithstanding  some  of  the  said 
Townc  have  given  forth  words  to  discourage  yor  peticoner  to 
goe  on  to  plant  there  wch  may  tunic  to  his  great  hinderancc 

1  "John  Greenland  is  granted  his  pcti-  account  of  the  way  iu  which  John 

tion,  which  is  to  plant  upon  a  five-aero  Greenland  acquired  this  lot;  but  there 

lot  in  Charles  Town  hounds  on  Misticke  is  mention  of  his  exchanging  a  lot  (this 

sidu"  (J/tt.tt.  Col.  lice.,  i.  309,  under  one,  as  I  suppose)  of  live  acres  "at  Mol- 

date  Oct.  7,  1640).  tons  Island"  with  Thomas  Moulton 

In    Wvman's   Chtirlcstown  1   find  no  against  ten  acres  of  land  in  Maiden. 


LECIIFORD-S   MAyCSCJin'T  XOTE-BOOK. 


321 


if  he  should  be  now  caused  to  remove.  Yor  pcticoner  humbly 
prayeth  this  wor11  Cort  to  be  pleased  in  consideration  of  the 
premises  to  continue  yor  peticoncrs  said  planting  on  mistickc 
syde  in  the  place  aforesaid.  And  yor  pcticoner  shall  pray  for 
this  Cort,  &c.  [2—6.] 

Joseph  Hollway  of  Sandwich  in  New  England  millwright 
aged  about  thirty  five  ycares  sworne  saith  upon  his  oath  that 
about  iiync  moneths  since  he  had  ccrtainc  commodities  of  the 
wife  of  Thomas  Richards  of  Weymouth  that  is  to  say  kersey 
at  G"  0(1  p  yard  bayes  at  4s  2d  p  yard  and  byuding  lace  at  7(I 
a  yard  when  lie  came  to  reckon  for  it  she  did  aflirme  that  he 
had  of  her  three  quarters  of  a  yard  of  kersey  more  than  he 
had  <fe  sayd  it  was  so  much  upon  the  booke  <fc  would  have  ben 
payd  for  so  much. 

That  in  or  about  March  last  past  he  heard  the  wife  of 
Thomas  Richards  of  Weymouth  speaking  of  Henry  Waltham 
&  Will™  Waltham  say  these  words  viz4  The  Walthams  arc 
cozeners  <fc  cheaters.  l  [Gti] 


1  It  is  unfortunate  that  the  private 
character  of  Mr.  Henry  Waltham  and  of 
Mrs.  Richards  is  not  a  more  important 
matter  of  history,  for  the  Nof.r.-bnok 
throws  considerable  light  upon  it.  The 
careful  reader  of  the  two  other  passages 
of  the  Note-book  referring  to  them  (pp. 
195,  207,  post]  who  may  compare  them 
with  the  Colonial  Record,  i.  267,  cannot 
fail  to  be  of  the  mind  that  although 
Mrs.  Richards  was  undoubtedly  proju- 
diced  in  her  statements,  the  opinion 
here  expressed,  in  regard  to  Henry  Wai- 
tham  at  least,  was  in  some  measure 
justifiable.  The  casual  reader,  who  may 
not  care  to  consult  the  Record,  will  find 
these  extracts  helpful  in  forming  an 
opinion:  —  • 

4  June,  1639.    "  M!  Waltham  and  MT 


Richards  wore  fined  5§  for  want  of 
scales  and  weights  in  their  mill  and  to 
provide  them  by  the  next  Court.  MT 
Waltham  was  fined  31  for  taking  too 
much  tole,  in  some  above  double  what 
was  dew,  whereof  20s  to  be  given  the 
witncs  "  (J/'m.  Col,  lice.,  i.  2(37). 

30  January,  103<>.  "  William  Wal- 
tham,  for  being  drunke  aboard  the  ship 
called  the  Hristowe  Marchant.  wch  lie 
confessed,  was  fined  twenty  shillings,  it 
being  the  first  time  he  was  known  to  be 
drunke,  &  so  was  seriously  admonished, 
&  dismissed"  (Ibid.,  i.  285). 

Thomas  Richards  had  come  to  New 
England  in  10:50,  and  settled  at  Dor- 
chester,  but  by  this  time  was  removed 
to  Weymouth.  William  Waltham  died 
very  shortly  after  this. 


21 


322  LKCHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[179]  To  the  right  wor11  the  Governor  Council  <f  Assistants 
and  the  rest  of  the  generall  Court  now  assembled  (8)  7. 1G40. 

The  humble  pet  icon  of  ZACIIEUS  GOULD  l  of  Lijnne  husband 
man  in  behalf e  of  himself e  and  all  other  husbandmen  of  the 
Country 

Showcth  that  whereas  husbandry  and  tillage  much  con- 
ccrne  the  good  of  this  Commonwealth  and  yor  peticoncrs 
have  undertaken  the  managing  &  tillage  of  divers  ffarmcs  in 
the  Country  &  sowing  of  English  corne  their  servants  are 
oftentimes  drawnc  from  their  workc  to  traync  in  seed  time 
hay  tyme  &  harvest  to  the  great  discouragement  &  dam- 
mage  of  yor  petironcrs  and  yor  peticoner  the  said  Zachcus 
Gould  for  himself  saith  that  for  one  days  trayning  this  yeare 
he  was  much  damnnfyed  in  his  hay.  And  fforasmuch  as  fish 
ermen  upon  just  grounds  arc  exempted  from  trayning  because 
their  trade  is  also  for  the  Common  wealth,  Yor  peticoncrs 
humbly  pray  that  this  Court  will  be  pleased  to  take  the 
premises  into  their  grave  Consideration  and  thereupon  to  give 
order  for  the  incouragcment  of  yor  peticoncrs  who  are  hus 
bandmen  imployed  about  English  graine  that  they  &  their 
servants  may  be  exempted  from  ordinary  traynings  in  seed 
tymc  hay  tyme  &  harvest  And  yor  petit-oners  shall  as  their 
duty  bynds  them  pray  &c. 

Edward  TTowell  2  late  of  Marsh  Gibbon  in  the  County  of 
Buckingham  arid  now  of  Lynnc  in  New  England  gent  makes 
a  Letter  of  Attorney  unto  Roger  Stevens  of  Wotton  Under 
wood  in  Com  Buck  husbandman  German  Major  Citizen  & 
mercer  of  London  and  John  Reese  of  Marsh  Gibbon  aforesaid 
gent  to  surrender  all  his  Coppihold  lands  &  tenements  in 
Wotton  Underwood  aforesaid  to  the  use  of  Richard  Grenville 
of  Wotton  Under  wood  aforesaid  Esqr.  [5.] 

1  Zaccheus  Gould  has  been  mentioned          -  Edwnrd  Howell,  of  Lynn,  had  five 

before  (p.  147,  anti').     He  was,  as  is  here  hundred  acres  of  land  granted  him  in 

said,  of  Lynn  ;  but  little  more  is  known  that  place,  but  soon  removed  to  South- 

of  him.     Later  in  the  Xute-bouk  is  more  ampton,  L.  I.,  where  he  was  a  magistrate, 

mention  of  him  on  different  matters.  and  where  his  son  lived  after  him. 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTK-IIOOK.  323 

I  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction  of  the 
Mattachusctts  I3ay  in  New  England  hereby  certify  unto  all 
inanncr  of  persons  to  whomsoever  these  presents  shall  come 
that  Henry  Russell  !  late  of  \Yevmouth  in  New  England 
sonne  of  Thomas  Russell  late  of  Chalfont  St  Gyles  in  the 
County  of  Buckingham  yeoman  deceased  the  ffoure  and  twen 
tieth  day  of  May  last  past  And  that  this  present  day  Jane  the 
late  wife  of  the  said  Henry  and  Elizabeth  their  Daughter  cv 
only  child  living  being  about  the  age  of  ten  yeares  came  before 
me  it  presented  the  writing  hereunto  annexed  as  the  last  will 
and  testament  of  the  said  Henry  Russell  wth  an  addition  there 
unto  and  also  Edward  Batte  one  of  the  witnesses  named  in 
the  said  writing  deposed  before  me  upon  his  oath  that  the  said 
Henry  Russell  did  declare  publish  and  signc  the  same  to  be 
his  last,  will  &  testament  and  the  addition  also  to  be  parte  of 
his  said  will  and  further  then  the  said  Elizabeth  did  before  me 
freely  choose  her  said  mother  to  be  her  tuitorix  and  guardian 
during  her  minority  In  testimony  whereof  1  have  caused  the 
public!; e  scale  of  our  Colony  to  be  hereunto  affixed  the  nyeth 
day  of  October  1G40  &c.  [>.] 

A  letter  of  Attorney  by  Mr  Howell  to  Mr  German  Major  to 
receive  311  annuity  out  of  my  late  freehold  lands  in  Wotton 
Underwood  in  the  County  of  Buck  of  Richard  Grenville  Esqr 
or  Roger  Stevens  husbandman  and  one  hundred  pounds  of 
Richard  Francis  of  Marsh  Gibbon  in  the  County  of  Buck 
woollmerchant  wch  he  received  for  me  cv  to  my  use  of  Thomas 
Beckwith  of  Andbrooko  in  the  parish  of  Masham  in  the  County 
of  Yorke  gent  and  Robert  Pickersgill  of  the  maizes  in  the  said 
parish  of  Masham  husbandman.  [5s.] 

[180]  Thomas  Nicholls2  of  Ilingham  planter  makes  John 
Cockcrell  of  Cockshall  his  attorn  to  receive  his  legacy  given 

1  Henry  Russell,  of  Weymouth,  and  copied  from  Savage.    George  ami  Walter 
his  wife  and  daughter  are  all  noted  in  Nichols    and    John    Coekerell    (whose 
Savage  with  but  little  addition.  name  is  spelled  Copewell  above),  being 

2  For  Thomas  Nichols  see  p.  130,  rtnfc,  Englishmen,  are  practically  nnfmdablc. 
where  the   very  little  known   of  him  is 


324  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

him  by  Walter  Nicholls  his  ffathcr  of  George  Nicholls  801   9. 
(8)  1040.     [1—0.] 

Will™  James  of  Boston  in  New  England  mercer  sonnc  of 
Albon  James  late  Citizen  and  mercer  of  London  makes  a  letter 
of  Attorney  unto  his  uncle  George  Strange  gent  to  sell  all  his 
Freehold  Lands  &  tenements  in  reversion  after  the  death  of 
[  w««fc]  James  given  and  bequeathed  unto  him  by  his  uncle 
Will™  James.  [2—0.] 

Me  Richard  Parker  <tc  tener'  Samuell  Hutchinson  &  Tho : 
Savage  in  500*  to  pay  3901. 

1  NATIIANIELL  PATTEN  charges  upon  HENRY  WOLCOTT  THOMAS 
MARSIIFIELD  $  SAMUELL  WAKEMAN  joynt  undertakers  of 
the  shippes  the  Charles  of  Bristoll  and  the  Hopewell  of 
London. 

Imprimis  delivered  to  Thomas  Marslifield  the  10th  of  Aprill  1040      .  201 

Itm  delivered  to  Thomas  Marshfield  14  Apr  1640 30 1 

Itm  delivered  to  Henry  Wolcott  20  April  1640 12 1 

Itm  delivered  to  Samuell  Wakeman  'JO  Aprill  1G10 30 1 

Itm  delivered  to  Henry  Wolcott  0°  Maii  10 10  201  for  \vch  there  is  a 
note  under  his  hand  dated  by  mistake  0°  April  10 10  including 
that  and  the  said  301  to  Samuel  Wakemau  for  501  \vch  showes 

they  did  things  as  partners 201 

Itm  delivered  to  Thomas  Marshfield  30  Maii  1640 12 l 

Itm  delivered  to  Thomas  Marshfield  to  pay  to  Ml;  Elbridge  owner  of 

the  Charles  13  Junii  1040 801 

Itm  delivered  to  Henry  Wolcott  about  that  time 01 

Itm  delivered  unto  Thomas  Marshiield  17  Junii  1040 201 

S  2301 
Itm  for  a  bag  of  hoppes  spoyled  by  the  raine  because  some  of 

the  undertakers  gave  order  it  should  not  be  received  aboard    .     6  12  6 

1  Although  there  is  a  difference  in          "For  M*  Patten,  I  conceive  he  hath 

point  of  time  of  about  a  year  between  received   some   wronge  ;    I    did  receive 

the  two,  I   connect  this  account  with  one  hundred   &   fiftye  pounds   nllmost 

almost  the  only  other  mention  of  Tho-  of  liim  —  not    that  that  is   all   Due  to 

mas  Marshfield  in  New  England  chron-  him." 

ology,  —  part  of  a  letter  written  from         Marshfield  died  the  next  year, — or 

Tho.   Marshfield  to  Samuel  Wakeman,  at  least  disappeared, — and  his  family 

which  was  copied  into  the  first  volume  moved  to  Springfield.     (See  Conn.  Rcc., 

of  Suffolk  Deeds  (f.  12)  by  John  Win-  Oct.  12,  1642.) 
throp(6.  3.  1641):  — 


L  E  C  II  FOR  D  '  ,S*   J7.  i.\  I'Sf'Jil/'T   A'  O  '1  '!•:  -UOV  K.  3  25 

Itni  for  a  nimming  sheet  and  rugg  lent  unto  the  Steward  Robert 

Ring  for  the  undertakers  use  ...........  280 

Itm  for  a  cubbin  bought  in  the  sliip  because  I  had  not  conven 
ience  in  the  ship  according  to  agreement  for  inyselfe  & 
family  ................  ...  1  10  0 

Itm  for  a  womans  pillion  lost  in  the  ship  Ilopewell  .....     0  10  0 

Itm  costs  &  charges  att  Bristoll  from  the  24th  of  May  till  the 
18th  of  June  for  myselfe  &  family  because  att  the  said  24th 
day  we  should  have  bin  gone  ...........  500 

1  Itm  they  undcrtooke  to  victuall  the  said  ship  Charles  for 
1G  wcckes  <fc  to  carry  but  150  passingers  but  they  carryed  in 
the  sayd  ship  a  great  many  more  passingers  to  mv  remem- 
brance  and  they  the  passingers  Averc  debarred  of  our  bccrc 
<fc  water  before  landing  and  if  we  had  bin  put  to  a  long  voyage 
we  must  needs  have  suffered  much  more  than  we  did  wch  I 
leave  to  the  consideration  of  the  Cort. 


HENRY  LYMON  defend*  att  the  suit  of  HENRY  WOLCOT. 

Forasmuch  as  the  defendant  can  prove  by  Mr  A  very  master 
of  the  Ilopewell  and  John  Gover  of  Assize  Newton  in  Devon 
shire  that  the  plaintiffe  promised  the  defendcnt  upon  payment 
of  20*  5s  in  Bristoll  he  should  have  his  goods  delivered  in 
New  England  wthout  any  more  to  doe  And  whcras  he  [181] 
alleged  before  the  Jury  that  he  could  make  such  proofe  but 
did  not  name  the  witnesses  whereupon  the  Jury  being  in  hast 
hath  cast  him  in  31  1G8  The  defendant  humbly  praycth  that 
judgment  &  execution  be  stayed  till  he  can  produce  his 
witnesses.  [I*-] 

John  Bibble2  make  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Sibill  Bibble 
his  wife  of  Shadwell  in  Stepney  parish  &  John  Waterton  of 


1  It  may  have  been  that  it  was  at  1G37,  and  subsequently  moved  to  Mal- 
the  end  of  this  voyage,  referred  to  above,  den.      He  died  in  1058  ;  and  at  tin's  his 
that   Samuel   Maverick    gave  bond   for  wife  came  to  New  England,  ami  desirous 
1201  for  the  Company  of  the  Charles  "  to  perhaps  of  ridding  herself  of  her  sibilant 
answer  such  actions  as  are  or  shall  be  name,  married  Miles  Ntitt,  and  subse- 
brought."  (juently  John  Doolittle. 

2  John  Bibble  was  a  Boston  man  in 


326  LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

the  same  shippwright  to  sue  James  Buckley  of  Shadwell  afore 
said  upon  the  bond  annexed  <tc. 


John  Barnes  of  Plymouth  merchant  bound  to  John  Parker 
in  IGOi  for  payment  of  50*  1  Sept  next  at  his  house  at 
Plymouth.  [Is.] 

Robert  Mantell  of  Dorchester  bynds  himself  e  by  a  writing 
under  his  hand  to  Theodore  Atkinson  to  pay  unto  his  use  unto 
William  Baker  Citizen  &  haberdasher  of  London  dwelling  in 
or  neare  Creed  lane  wtbiu  three  weekes  after  the  arivall  of 
the  ship  wherein  the  said  Robert1  intendes  to  passe  in  England. 
dated  15  Get  1G40.  [6] 

Thomas  Lund2  late  of  Hingham  in  N  E  makes  a  ler  of 
Attorney  to  Thomas  Grubb  of  Boston  in  N  E  to  receive  all 
moneys  due  unto  him.  24  Oct  1640. 


Will™  Pomfret3  of  Dover  upon  Pascattaway  river  Planter 
bound  to  George  Druell4  of  London  marriner  to  deliver  & 
pay  unto  him  or  his  assignes  one  thousand  of  redd  oake  mer 
chantable  clapboard  for  the  passage  of  Hosanna  Pomfrett  his 
wife  &  Elizabeth  their  daughter.  [Is.] 

John  Ilolgrave  5  of  Salem  in  N.  E.  marriner  bound  to  Edward 
Paine  of  Wap:  in  the  County  of  Midd  marriner  for  payment 
of  371  nit*  Julii  px  at  his  house  in  Salem.  [Is.] 

1  The  said  Robert  did  puss  into  Eng-  This  is  all  Savage  says  on  the  matter. 

land,  I  imagine,  for  he  certainly  has  left  Thomas    Grubb   was    a    leather-dresser 

no  trace  behind  him  except   this   one  living  on  Washington  Street,  opposite 

mention.      Theodore   Atkinson    was    a  Milk.     (See  ante,  p.  172.  ) 
feltmaker  of  Boston,     lie  came  to  this          &  William  Poinfret    was   early  town 

country  in  1034  in  the  employment  of  clerk   of    Dover,    and   lieutenant.     He 

John  Newgate  the  hatter,  who,  one  may  lived  until  1680. 

imagine,  made  the  tall  hats  worn  by  all          *  George  Druell,  of  London,  called  at 

the   Puritan    Governors;  for  he  was  a  one   time   "marriner,"  and  at   another 

man  of  consequence,  and  1  doubt   not  "grocer,"  was  agent   for  one    Edward 

was  one  of  the  first  in  his  trade.  P;»vne,   mariner,  of  "\Vapping,  as  well, 

2  Thomas  Lund,  a  merchant,  brought  doubtless,  as  for  others. 
from  London,  1C  16,  power  from  certain          6  It  is  curious  that  this  agreement  of 

citizens    of    London    to   collect   debts.  John  Holgravo  should  have  been  made 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  327 

A  charter  party  betwccnc  <\H  George  Story1  of  Boston  in 
N  E  merchant  of  the  one  ptc  and  Marke  Beaplc  master  of  the 
ship  Green  Lyon  of  Barnstahle  of  burden  240  tunnes  or 
thereah:  part  owners  of  the  said  ship  of  the  other  pto  Wheras 
the  said  merchant  hath  laden  the  said  ship  wth  Clapboards  to 
the  number  of  8000  &  500  or  thereabouts  to  be  dd  at  [Hank]  for 
wch  fraight  the  said  merchant  or  his  assigncs  is  to  pay  the  said 
master  wthin  twelve  dayes  after  arivall  225*  and  5*  towards  a 
pylott :  the  goods  to  be  bound  for  security  of  payment.  [0] 

Samucll  Haskill2  citizen  £  silk  throstcr  of  London  bound 
to  John  Hill  gent  in  14*  to  pay  71  upon  the  Arrivall  of  the 
ship  the  green  Lyon  in  England  aboard  the  said  ship  Coram 
me  et  Jona  Hopkins  2G.  Oct.  1640.  [Gt?.] 

Elizabeth  Freestone  late  of  Alford  in  the  County  of  Lin- 
colne  and  now  of  Boston  in  New  England  spinster  daughter 
of  Richard  Frceston  late  of  Horncastle  in  the  County  of 
Lincoluc  aforesaid  wollcndraper  deceased  makes  a  letter  of 
Attorney  to  John  Hutchinson  of  Alford  aforesaid  wollen- 
drapcr  to  receive  &  recover  40*  of  Mary  Frceston  of  Thimblcby 
in  the  said  County  widdow  &  Executrix  of  the  last  will  & 
testament  of  Robert  Frecston  my  uncle  who  was  executor  of 
the  last  will  &  testament  of  Robert  Frecston  my  grandfather 

with  Edward  Payne  rather  than  Druell,  factory  for  the  throwsting  or  twisting 

his  agent  in  New  England.     It  may  be,  of  silk  after  it  had  been  first  wound 

however,  that  Druell  was  only  Payne's  and  before  it  could  be  woven.     At  this 

agent  for  some  particular  transaction,  time  London  was  full  of  French  Hugue- 

John  Holgrave  himself  is  merely  noted  nots,  busily  engaged  in  introducing  the 

by  Savage  as  being  representative  at  the  silk   manufacture  there,  who  all  turned 

first  Assembly.  their  eyes  to  the  New  World  as  a  means 

1  Of  CJeorge  Story,  of  Boston,  mer-  of  obtaining  silk  that  need  not  come 
chant,  little  is  known  beyond  what  may  through  France  and  Italy.     The  experi- 
be  derived  from  the  history  of  Captain  mcnts   in    silk   culture   were    not   suc- 
Keayne's  sow,  so  frequently  alluded  to  cessful  even  in  the  Southern  and  Middle 
by  early  historians  of  this  country.  States,    where    they   were    most    tried, 

2  This  entry  unfortunately  does  not  and  in   New  England   very   little   was 
throw  any  light  on  a  subject  of  some  ever  done  at  all.     See  a  very  interesting 
interest  which  it  calls  to  mind, —  the  article  on  "Colonial    Husbandry"   by 
culture  of  silk  in  New  England.     The  Edward  Eggleston  in  the  Century  Maga- 
silk-throwstcr  was   a   man  who   ran    a  zinc  for  January,  1884. 


828  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

one  of  the  Executors  of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  my  said 
father  and  G*  18s  4(l  dividend  part  belonging*  to  me  by  reason 
of  the  Death  of  my  sister  Mary  and  5*  of  Nathanicll  Cuthbert 
of  Warniington  in  the  County  of  Northampton  Executor  of  the 
last  will  ct  testament  of  my  grandmother  Mary  Cuthbert  given 
me  by  her  will.  [8s.  Gtf.  2  G] 

Md.  Wheras  the  within  mentioned  one  thousand  of  Clap 
boards  will  be  worth  II1  it  is  agreed  between  the  parties  wthin 
named  that  if  the  passage  money  wthin  mentioned  &  intended 
come  not  to  so  much  that  the  said  George  Drucll  shall  pay  the 
said  Will™  Pomfrct  in  money  so  much  as  the  said  passage 
money  or  other  charges  for  the  wthin  mentioned  Hosanna  and 
Eliz  shall  come  short  of  the  said  II1. 

[182]  Phillip  Gibbs  &  al  con  Tlioma  Allen  £  Ricum 
Callicot  1  in  recuss.  [Is.] 

Philip  Gibbs  &  al  con  Thoma  Allen.     [Is.] 

Will"1  Vicars  of  Wcthersfield  upon  the  river  of  Connecticott 
Planter  a  Certilicat  that  he  is  there  Inhabitant.2  [Is.] 

Samuell  Haskill  bound  to  Willm  Vicars  for  7  ycares  pro 
vided  that  if  81  l)e  payd  him  wthin  G  dayes  after  the  arrival!  of 
the  green  lyon  at  London  at  the  ship  tavcrne  near  Biilater 
lane  London  then  this  Indenture  to  be  voyd  M?  John  Cookc 
of  Fanchurch  streat  belonging  to  the  Custome  House  hath  50* 
of  his  given  by  his  grandfather  Ml;  George  Cooke  Inkeepcr 
at  the  white  horse  wlhin  Algate  deceased  18  yeares  since. 


1  Riclmrd  Callicot  \vas  of  Dorchester,  that  name.     Ho  appears  only  once  or 

;is  \v;is  Thomas  Allen.   (See.  p.  195,  post.)  twice  in  the  Dorchester  Ifrconls. 

The   name   of    the   former    occurs   fre-  2  This    certificate     (if    it    could   be 

quently  in  the  Ihrchestrr  TuU'n  Records  found)   ought   to   convince  one  of  the 

(usually  spelled  Collicot).     It  is  difli-  existence  of  Win.   Vicars,  Savage  not- 

cult  to  identify  Thomas  Allen  in  Savage,  withstanding. 
on  account  of  the  lai'ire  number  bearing 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Abraham  Shawc1  sometime  of  Hallifax  in  the  County  of 
Yorkc  Clothier  &  late  of  Pedham  in  N  l<]  planter  made  his 
last  will  <fc  testament  about  November  !G->8.  &  therein'  made 
Joseph  Shawc  his  eldest  sonne  &  Nicholas  Biram  his  sonne  in 
lawe  his  executors  &  dyed  having  1001  <t  divers  other  dutyes 
in  the  hands  of  severall  persons  they  give  a  letter  of  attorney 
to  Mr  [&/«;ifc]  Best  of  Hallifax  aforesaid  Clothier  to  receive  the 
same  £  all  profitts  of  Colemines  whatsoever  &  the  same 
Colcmincs  to  sell  <fcc.  [os.] 

Joseph  Rcdknaplatc  of  Hampton  in  the  County  of  Midd  and 
Citizen  £  couper  of  London  makes  a  letter  of  attorney  nnto 
Reynold  Stevens  of  London  gent  and  John  Stevens  of  Hamp 
ton  aforesaid  yeoman  to  surrender  a  Coppihold  in  Hampton 
called  Blackbush  eight2  now  or  late  in  the  occupation  of 
Elizabeth  Redknap  his  mother  &  all  his  interest  therein. 
[2-6] 

John  Bradshaw  late  of  Lynne  in  New  England  husbandman 
makes  a  letter  of  attorney  &  assignement  to  Zaclicus  Gould 
of  Lynne  aforesaid  yeoman  to  receive  &  recover  31  &  all  costs 
<fc  charges3  wchhc  rccouvered  in  the  last  Court  at  Salem  against 
M'  Thomas  Willis.  [6] 

John  Page 4  of  Waterton  in  N  E  pi.  for  32*  8s  mortgageth 
unto  George  Druell  Citizen  &  grocer  of  London  Attorney  & 
assignee  of  Edward  Payne  of  Wapping  in  the  C  of  Mid  iiiar- 
riner  six  heads  of  Cattel  specified  in  a  schedule  hereunto 

1  We   cnn  add   nothing  to  Savage's          3  What  those    "costs  and  charges" 
note  on  Abraham  Shaw  from  this  letter  could  have  been  for,  I  can  hardly  iniag- 
of  attorney.  ine.    Mr.  Thomas  Willis  at  this  time  was 

2  Savage  says  that  this  estate,  called  one  of  those  appointed  to  "  joyne  with 
by  him  "  Blackbush  right,"  was  sold  by  the,  magistrates  at  Salem  to  assist  them 
Kedknap  in  1649  to  one  Edward  Tom-  in  keeping  their  Courts."    Bradshaw  has 
lyns,  which  would   seem  as   though  it  left  no  trace  of  himself.  This  notice  seems 
were  not  surrendered  at  this  time.     A  as  though  he  were  going  to  England, 
friend  suggests   "Blackbush  Eyot "  as          4  John  Page  came  to  New  England 
the  name  of  the  estate.     The  spelling  with    Winthrop,   and    lived  in    Water- 
in  the  text  above,  "  eight,"  might  easily  town  fora  long  time,  having  a  son  of 
stand  for  "  Eyot."  his  name  who  lived  there  after  him. 


330  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

annexed  Provided  that  if  lie  pay  the  said  money  ult'  Mail  px 
at  his  house  in  Waterton  then  <fcc.     [--8] 

Joseph  Bcmis  l  of  Waterton  j)l  :  bound  to  George  Druell 
agent  for  Mf  Payne  in  141  to  pay  71  7s  upon  the  10th  of  March 
in  good  or  merchantable  Indian  corne  at  3s  4D  the  bushcll  at 
M!^  Edward  Tyngs  at  Boston  in  New  England.  [SJ.] 

John  Sampson  of  London  merchant  makes  a  letter  of 
attorney  to  Philip  AVhite  marriner  to  receive  of  Will01  Quieke 
181.  [1*.] 

[183]  Job  Judkin  2  &  his  wife  a  letter  and  a  Release.     [8d.] 


M*  Christojiher  Stanley  for  a  letter  coppied  &  a  letter  for 
his  brother.  [1-0] 

Articles  of  Agreement  made  the  Seventh  day  of  November 
Anno  Dlii  1040  Betweene  Captaine  ROBERT  HARDING  3  of 
Newporte  in  the  Isle  of  Ayiiednecke  in  New  England  of  the 
one  parte  And  WILLIAM  WITHINGTON  of  Portsmouth  in 
Aquednecke  aforesaid  Carpenter  of  the  other  parte  as 
folio  wet  h. 

Imprimis  the  said  Robert  doth  hereby  grant  and  to  ffarme  lett 
unto  the  said  Will"1  all  that  the  ffarme  granted  unto  the  said 
Robert  by  the  said  Towne  of  Newporte  contcyning  300  acres 
at  the  leaste  lying  ncare  unto  an  Island  called  Canonieute  wth 
all  the  incdow  ground  thereunto  belonging  To  have  &  to  hold 
the  said  ffarme  <fc  all  &  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  appur 
tenances  unto  the  said  Wm  his  executors  adm  :  &  assignes 
from  the  Date  of  these  presents  for  the  terme  of  nyne  ycares 
from  thenceforth  next  ensuing  fully  to  be  compleate  and  ended 

1  Joseph    Bemi.s  was  not  so  old  an     some  manner  of  trade  to  "\Villiam  Bore- 
inhabitant,  having  been  at  Watertown      man  (p.  142,  ante). 

for  only  a  year  or  so.      He  was  a  promi-          3  Robert  Harding  went   to   Newport 

ncnt  man  in   town  aifairs,  often  sclt-et-  with  others  of  the   Hutchinson    party 

man  and  so  forth.  after  their  defeat  in  Boston.     He  was  a 

2  Job  Judkin,  it  may  be  remembered,  man  of  consideration  in  his  new  home, 
was  one  of  those  who  undertook  to  teaeh  as  he  had  been  in  his  old. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  331 

ycalding  and  allowing  therefore  for  the  first  seven  yeares  of 
the  said  termc  at  the  end  of  the  said  seven  yeares  unto  the 
said  Robert  his  hcires  and  assignes  the  worth  of  two  hundred 
and  ten  pounds  in  buildings  fencings  draynings  of  medow  or 
other  labour  bestowed  in  improving  the  premises  to  be  made 
&  done  on  the  same  in  the  meane  time  the  said  buildings 
fencings  draynings  and  labour  thereabout  or  other  labour  as 
aforsd:  to  be  valued  by  indifferent  men  to  be  chosen  by  and 
betwcenc  the  said  partyes  to  these  presents  their  heires  ex 
ecutors  administrators  and  assignes  according  to  every  dayes 
labour  of  men  thereabout  at  the  rate  of  23  Gd  for  a  mans  dayes 
workc  and  for  cattells  labour  at  10s  a  Dayes  worke  for  a  sufli- 
cicnt  teame  And  yeilding  and  paying  therefore  ycarely  for 
the  two  last  yeares  of  the  said  terme  of  nyne  yeares  unto  the 
said  Robert  his  heires  and  assignes  the  ycarely  rent  of  forty 
pounds  at  two  tcrmcs  in  the  yeare  that  is  to  say  the  seventh 
day  of  May  and  the  seventh  day  of  November  by  cquall  por 
tions  to  be  payd. 

It m  that  the  said  Will™  his  executors  admr3  or  assignes 
shall  or  may  lawfully  have  &  take  timber  &  wood  on  the 
premises  if  there  it  may  be  had  for  the  said  buildings  fences 
draynings  and  reparations  thereof  and  also  firewood  for  his 
&  their  owne  spending  from  time  to  time  during  the  said 
termc  wthout  doing  any  voluntary  wast  on  the  premises  by 
selling  or  carrying  away  of  timber  or  otherwise. 

It  m  that  the  said  Will111  his  executors  adm"  or  assg  shall 
&  will  from  time  to  time  well  &  sufliciently  rcpairc  &  amend 
the  said  buildings  fences  <fe  draynings  during  the  said  two  last 
yeares  of  the  said  termc  of  nync  yeares  and  the  same  so  well 
&  sufficiently  repaired  &  amended  wth  all  the  premises  in  the 
end  of  the  said  tcrme  to  leave  &  ycald  up  unto  the  said  Robert 
his  heires  or  assignes. 

Itm  that  the  said  Robert  his  heires  &  assignes  shall  in  the 
end  of  the  said  terme  take  off  &  buy  all  such  cartes  waynes 
&  husbandry  instruments  wth  the  appurtenances  as  the  said 
Will"1  his  executors  admrs  or  assg  shall  make  and  use  on  the 
prmises  during  the  said  tcrme  at  the  rate  they  cost  according 
to  2?  6"?  a  mans  dayes  wrorke  in  the  making  of  them  if  the 


332  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

said  Wm  his  executors  adm™  or  ass*  shall  be  willing  to  sell 
the  said  cart  waynes  &  instruments. 

Itm  the  said  Robert  doth  hereby  let  unto  the  said  Willm  one 
stoeke  of  eight  Cowes  all  supposed  to  be  wth  Calfc  one  young 
bull  one  young  stearc  two  cow  calfcs  and  one  great  sowe  all  wch 
arc  esteemed  to  be  worth  ten  Cowcs  To  have  and  to  hold  the 
said  stoeke  of  Cattell  unto  the  said  Wm  his  executors  admin 
istrators  and  assigncs  during  the  said  terme  of  nyne  ycares 
yeilding  &  allowing  therefore  at  the  end  of  the  first  three 
yeares  of  the  said  terme  unto  the  said  Robert  his  executors 
adm™  or  assignes  ten  of  the  best  cattell  that  he  or  they  shall 
choose  out  of  the  increase  of  the  said  stoeke  and  in  lieu  of 
the  said  bull  stcare  calfcs  and  sowe  makcing  the  said  stoeke  to 
be  ten  Cowes  by  adding  two  Cowes  to  the  said  Eight  Cowes 
And  yeilding  «fe  allowing  att  the  end  of  the  sixt  yeare  of  the 
said  terme  ten  more  of  the  best  new  increase  cattell  that  the 
said  Robert  his  executors  admr8  or  assigncs  shall  choose  out 
of-  the  said  new  increase  of  the  said  stoeke  of  ten  cowes  And 
at  the  end  of  the  nyneth  &  last  yeare  of  the  said  terme  ten 
more  of  the  best  new  increase  cattell  that  he  or  they  shall 
choose  out  of  the  said  new  increase  of  the  said  stoeke  of  ten 
Cowes  together  wtb  said  stoeke  of  ten  Cowcs  or  as  many  of 
them  as  shall  be  then  alive  and  all  other  Cowes  added  to 
the  same  stoeke. 

Itm  that  the  said  Robert  his  executors  admra  and  assignes 
shall  from  time  to  time  stand  to  the  losse  of  the  said  stoeke 
and  make  good  the  same  as  they  shall  decrease  or  decay 
during  the  said  terme  so  it  be  not  through  the  wilfull  default 
of  the  said  Willm  his  executors  admra  or  assg  in  wch  case  he 
or  they  shall  make  good  the  said  stoeke  by  the  valuation 
also  of  indifferent  men  as  aforesaid. 

Itm  that  at  the  end  of  the  said  third  sixt  &  nyneth  yeares 
when  the  said  Robert  his  executors  admre  or  assigncs  have 
made  choice  of  their  said  increase  cattell  the  residue  of  the 
increase  Cattell  of  the  said  stoeke  except  the  said  two  cowes 
to  be  added  to  the  said  stoeke  shall  be  accounted  and  be  the 
proper  goods  <fe  chattells  of  the  said  William  his  executors 
admre  or  assignes. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  333 

Itm  the  said  William  his  executors  administrators  or  as- 
sigucs  shall  kccpc  the  ten  new  increase  Cattell  to  be  yeilded 
ct  allowed  as  aforesaid  out  of  the  said  new  increase  at  the 
said  sixt  yea  re  and  during  the  said  last  three  y  cares  of  the  said 
termc  yeilding  and  allowing  therefore  at  the  end  of  the  said 
ternie  unto  the  said  Robert  his  executors  administrators  and 
assignes  ten  of  the  best  cattell  that  he  or  they  shall  choose  out 
of  the  increase  of  the  said  ten  new  increase  Cattell  together 
wlh  the  said  ten  new  increase  Cattell  or  as  many  of  them  as 
shall  be  then  alive  and  all  other  Cattell  added  unto  the  said 
new  increase  Cattell  [184]  the  said  Robert  his  executors  ad 
ministrators  and  assignes  standing  to  the  hazzard  of  the  said 
ten  increase  cattell  and  from  time  to  time  make  good  the  same 
number  of  them  during  the  said  termc  if  they  decrease  or 
decay  so  it  be  not  through  the  wilfull  default  of  the  said 
Will1"  his  executors  admrs  or  assg  in  wch  case  he  or  they  shall 
make  good  the  said  number  of  ten  increase  cattell  and  the 
said  Will111  his  executors  administrators  and  assignes  to  have 
the  residue  of  the  increase  of  the  said  ten  new  cattell  as  his 
&  their  ownc  proper  goods  &  chattclls. 

Itm  the  said  Robert  doth  hereby  grant  unto  the  said  Wil 
liam  all  the  hay  now  upon  the  premises  to  be  valued  for 
quantity  by  indifferent  men  to  be  chosen  betwccnc  the  said 
Ptys  and  the  said  valuation  to-be  written  on  the  back  syde  of 
these  presents  To  have  and  to  enjoy  the  said  Hay  to  the  said 
Will"1  his  executors  administrators  and  assignes  Yeilding  and 
allowing  therefore  unto  the  said  Robert  his  executors  admini 
strators  and  assignes  the  kccpcing  of  one  Cowe  this  winter 
and  the  summering  and  wintering  of  one  calfe  every  ycare 
following  during  the  said  terme  of  nyne  ycares  and  twice  so 
much  hay  or  els  twice  as  much  hay  and  once  as  much  straw 
in  quantity  as  the  said  hay  now  granted  shall  be  valued  at.  In 
witncsse  &c.  [Gs.  or  a  bushell  of  wheat  or  a  bs  ct  halfe  of  Ind.] 

Anne  Stratton1  of  Salem  in  New  England  widdow  aged 
about  fifty  yeares  late  wife  of  John  Stratton  of  Shotley  in  the 

1  The  Note-book  for  some  pages  is  and  notes  in  regard  to  a  suit  brought 
now  filled  with  depositions,  petitions,  by  Mrs.  Anne  Stratton,  of  Salem,  against 


334  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

County  of  Suffolk  gent  deceased  sworne  saith  that  Joseph 
Stratton  sometime  of  Harwich  in  the  County  of  Essex  mar- 
riner  and  now  of  James  Citty  in  Virginia  brother  of  her  said 
husband  did  in  or  about  the  ycarc  of  our  Lord  one  thousand 
six  hundred  and  twenty  eight  stand  indebted  unto  Will"1 
Stratton  this  deponent  her  sonnc  deceased  in  the  summe'of 
801  principall  debt  for  payment  whereof  the  said  Joseph 
entered  into  one  bond  or  obligation  of  a  greater  summe  wch 
said  debt  should  have  bin  payd  unto  this  deponent  her  said 
sonnc  in  his  life  time  about  12  ycares  since.  And  this  de 
ponent  saith  that  the  said  Joseph  Stratton  did  likewise  in  or 
about  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  and 
twenty  thrGe  stand  indebted  unto  her  said  husband  by  bill  or 
bond  in  the  summe  of  sixty  pounds  at  the  least  principall 
debt  wch  should  have  bin  payd  unto  her  said  husband  in  his 
lifetime  about  17  yeares  since  and  this  deponcuit  saith  that 
she  doth  not  knowe  that  the  said  Joseph  hath  payd  or  satis 
fied  the  said  principall  debts  or  any  parte  thereof  one  or  other 
unto  her  said  Sonne  or  husband  their  [or]  either  of  their  exe 
cutors  administrators  or  assg.  And  this  deponent  saith  that 
the  said  Joseph  did  by  word  of  mouth  in  this  deponents  hear 
ing  and  by  letters  of  this  wch  this  deponent  hath  seen  &  read 
acknowledge  the  said  debt  of  80*  unto  the  said  57111™  Stratton 
and  promised  satisfaction  thereof  and  did  also  acknowledge 
the  said  debt  of  sixty  pounds  demanded  on  the  behalfe  of  her 
said  husband  and  likewise  promised  payment  thereof  twelve 
yeares  since  or  thereabouts.  And  this  deponent  saith  that 
she  had  both  the  said  specialty cs  in  keeping  divers  yeare? 
but  after  the  death  of  the  said  Will™  this  deponent  to  her  best 
remembrance  delivered  them  unto  her  sonnc  John  Stratton 
of  Salem  aforesaid  to  whome  of  right  the  said  debts  did  & 
doth  belong  as  she  conceiveth  lie  being  Executor  of  the  last 
will  &,  Testament  of  her  said  late  husband  and  brother  unto 
the  said  Will"1  who  was  also  indebted  unto  the  said  John  and 

her  brother-in-law  William  Stratton,  of  (see  <mtc,  p.  121),  and  of  Elizabeth, 
James  City  (so  called),  Virginia.  We  who  became  the  wife  of  John  Thorn- 
learn  little  from  the  cast*  that  is  now  of  dike,  —  a  fact  unknown  to  Savage.  Of 
interest.  Mrs.  Anne  Stratton  was  the  Joseph  Stratton,  of  Virginia,  I  know 
mother  of  John  »Stratton,  of  Scarborough  nothing. 


LECHFORUS  MANUSCRIPT    XOTE-BOOK.  335 

ill  particular  by  the  writing  now  shewed  unto  this  deponent 
whereto  she  did  write  her  name  as  a  witnesse  and  was  present 
when  the  same  was  subscribed  sealed  &  delivered  by  the  said 
Will"1  And  she  hath  credibly  heard  and  verely  believeth  that 
the  said  John  lost  the  said  two  first  mentioned  spccialtycs  by 
Casting  away  of  a  Boatc  wth  many  other  goods  <fc  writings 
belonging  to  the  said  John  And  further  [1851  this  deponent 
saith  the  said  Will"1  being  to  goe  for  Virginia  in  the  yeare 
1028  first  above  mentioned  had  of  her  this  deponent  divers 
goods  amounting  to  the  value  of  forty  pounds  at  the  least 
of  lawfull  money  of  England  and  that  he  had  of  the  said 
John  other  goods  to  the  value  of  fifty  pounds  at  the  least  of 
like  lawfull  money  of  England  all  wch  goods  or  very  neare  all 
of  them  the  said  Joseph  carry ed  away  wth  him  to  Virginia 
leaving  Hie  said  Will"4  behind  him  in  England.  And  lastly 
this  deponent  saith  that  the  said  Joseph  about  the  time  of 
Ins  said  departure  forth  of  England  had  of  the  said  John  her 
sonnc  one  Watch  and  a  Clockc  for  wch  the  said  Joseph  was 
to  pay  unto  the  said  John  the  summo  of  five  pounds  of  like 
lawfull  money.  [2s.  G] 

Ralph  Foggc  l  of  Salem  in  New  England  gent  aged  about 
forty  yeares  'sworne  saith  that  he  was  present  to  his  best 
remembrance  and  saw  when  the  two  specialties  mentioned 
in  the  aforcwritten  deposition  of  Mr.ls  Anne  Stratton  were  by 
her  delivered  unto  her  said  sonnc  John  Stratton  at  Dedham 
in  the  County  of  Essex.  [6d.~\ 

Elizabeth  Thorndike  aged  about  2G  yeares  wife  of  John 
Thorndike  of  Salem  in  New  England  gent  swornc  saith  that 
she  was  present  and  saw  when  her  mother  Mr.i9  Anne  Stratton 
delivered  unto  her  brother  John  Stratton  the  two  bonds  or 
special tyes  wch  she  hath  heard  £  verely  believeth  were  made 
by  Mr  Joseph  Stratton  the  one  of  them  for  eighty  pounds  to 
her  brother  Will"1  Stratton  deceased  and  the  other  of  them 

1  Ralph  Fogg,  whose  deposition  in  wards  moved  to  Salem,  where  he  re- 
the  Stratton  case  here  appears,  was  a  mained  until  1652,  when  he  went  home 
Plymouth  man  at  first  (1633),  but  after-  to  London. 


330  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

for  sixty  pounds  unto  her  father  Mr  John  Stratton  deceased 
to  the  host  remembrance  of  this  deponent  And  this  deponent 
knowetli  that  her  brother  John  Stratton  was  &  is  executor 
of  the  last  will  <fc  testament  of  her  said  father  &c.  [1.] 

John  Stratton  of  Salem  in  New  England  gent  aged  about 
34  ycares  swornc  saith  that  his  mother  M1?8  Anne  Stratton  in 
or  about  UK;  monctli  of  December  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord 
1631  delivered  unto  this  deponent  at  Dedham  in  Essex  in  the 
presence  of  Ralfe  Foggc  and  this  deponents  sister  Elizabeth 
Thorndike  the  two  specialtyes  wherein  his  uncle  My  Joseph 
stood  bound  in  the  one  of  them  for  eighty  pounds  unto  my 
brother  Will"1  Stratton  deceased  and  in  the  other  of  them  for 
sixty  pounds  unto  his  father  M?  John  Stratton  deceased  And 
this  deponent  saith  that  he  knowcth  the  said  specialtyes  were 
the  proper  acts  and  deeds  of  the  said  Joseph  by  his  baud  & 
scale  and  further  this  deponent  saith  that  he  lost  the  said 
specialtyes  wth  oilier  writings  &  goods  by  the  casting  away 
of  a  boate  at  Cape  Porpis  in  America  about  ten  ycares  since. 
And  tins  deponent  saith  that  the  writing  now  shewed  unto 
him  is  the  testimony  of  Isaacke  Allerton  marriner  and  that 
it  is  subscribed  wth  his  proper  hand  writing  &  name  <tc. 
[1-0] 

To  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the 
Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  and  all  other  his  Mats 
Judges  it  Ofiiccrs  whomsoever  it  may  concerne  [186]  The 
Ccrtificat  of  John  Endecott  Esqr  one  of  the  Assistants  or 
Magistrates  of  the  Jurisdicon  aforcsayd  I  the  said  John 
Endecott  doe  hereby  Certify  that  the  scverall  Testimonies 
hereafter  written  were  taken  before  me  upon  the  oathcs  of 
the  scverall  deponents  upon  the  [W«»*]  day  of  November  Anno 
Diii  1040  and  that  the  sayd  severall  depponents  subscribed 
their  scverall  names  to  their  said  respective  testimonies  and 
that  one  writing  concerning  a  thousand  pounds  of  tobacco  wch 
should  have  bin  sent  by  one  Will1"  Stratton  unto  John  Strat 
ton  now  of  Salem  in  New  England  gent  was  shewed  before  me 
unto  Mr.i!i  Anne  Stratton  at  the  time  of  her  examination  and 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  837 

deposition  hereafter  written  And  another  writing  purporting 
to  be  a  testimony  under  the  handwriting  of  Isaacke  Allerton 
was  likewise  shewed  before  me  unto  John  Stratton  aforesaid 
at  the  time  of  his  examination  and  deposition  hereafter  speci- 
fycd  to  wch  severall  writings  I  have  also  sett  my  hand  in  testi 
mony  thereof  And  lastly  that  true  Coppies  of  the  said  two 
writings  are  hereafter  specifyed  as  followcth  <fcc.  [2s.  G] 

Mr  Robert  Keayne  M?  Thomas  Owen1  mcrcli*  and  Mr 
Thomas  Stegge  of  Weynokc  in  Virginia  Merchant  Attorneys 
for  Mr  Stratton.  My  Owen  only  for  M™  Stratton.  [2-0] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Anne  Stratton  of 
Salem  in  New  England  widd  doc  hereby  constitute  etc  Thomas 
Owen  of  Boston  in  N  E  merchant  my  true  and  lawfull  Attor 
ney  iv.c.  501  or  40*  <tc  and  all  and  all  manner  of  dammages 
costs  charges  <fc  expcnces  lost  suffered  or  layd  out  by  reason 
of  the  \ilhgible]  or  for  and  about  the  recovery  of  the  said  debts 
ct  summes  of  money  or  any  of  them.  [Is.] 

HONERESSIME  DOMINE  —  Multa  sit  tibi  salus  prccor  a  Deo 
forti  nostro  ac  omnipotent!  p  dominum  Jesum  unicii  Salva- 
torem.  Oratias  tibi  habco  Domino  propter  tuain  crga  me 
mcosqnc  bcnevolcntiam  singularem  ct  cum  fuerimus  vobis- 
cnm  ct  adhuc  coniugem  meam  hospitando  <vc  De  Colonia 
stabilicnda  p  Confabulationcm  cum  Ecclcsia  (cui  me  dcvinxit 
solcmne  pactum)  pro  comperto  habeo,  iis  precipuc  esse  Cura 
ut  ubicumque  operi  ediHcando  Incumburit  politicum  regimen 
libernum  absolutum  ct  inde})cndens  iis  stabiliri  possit  Domi- 
nus  Underbill2  ad  te  statim  venturus  est.  Rursus  ac  rursum 
pro  omni  tua  in  me  bcncvolcntia  tibi  gratolor  ct  tutelae  Dei 
te  Committens  maneo. 

Tui  obscrvantissimus 

RICHARDUS  MORRIS. 

Novembr  5  10 10. 

[(!,?.] 

1  Thomas  Owen  is  known  only  2  This  is  the  first  mention  of  Under- 
through  mention  of  him  by  Winthrop,  hill  in  the  Note-book;  but  it  seems  more 
not  here  pertinent,  and  another  of  like  proper  to  reserve  notice  of  him  until 
nature  in  Mass.  Col.  Rcc.,  i.  223.  p.  222. 

90 


338  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[187]    To  the  riyht  ivor11  the  Governor  Council  $  Assist1  of  this 

Jurisdiceon. 

The  Complaint1  of  RICHARD  LANG  of  Weymouth  in  N  E  Clap 
board  ryver  against  JOHN  UPHAM  and  WILL"  SMITH  in 
lehalfe  of  themselves  $  the  rest  of  the  freemen  of  the  said 
Towne  of  Weymouth 

Shewcth  that  tliis  Compuhatli  bin  an  Inhabitant  in  Weymouth 
aforesaid  by  the  space  of  six  yeares  last  past  or  thereabouts 
and  ought  in  right  to  have  a  share  in  the  necke  of  land  in 
Waymouth  the  said  John  Upham  <fc  W  S  &  the  rest  of  the 
said  defend13  wthout  the  gcnerall  Consent  of  the  Towne  made 
an  agreement  that  the  new  Planters  with  Richard  Silvester 
&  Arthur  Warren  should  have  the  said  necke  of  land  allot 
ted  among  them  and  unjustly  left  out  this  Complt8  name  say 
ing  that  he  was  no  planter  and  whereas  this  CompP  should 
have  had  three  acres  of  land  at  the  least  upon  the  plainc 
the  Defend18  have  assigned  him  but  two  acres  there  And 
whereas  the  Pit  had  three  acres  of  land  going  to  the  mill 
the  said  Defend13  have  imiustly  given  the  same  to  Richard 
Knight  And  the  said  Defend1*  deteyne  the  Pits  share  of  the 
mcddow  ground  within  the  said  towne  wch  should  be  three 
acres  at  the  least  And  the  said  defend13  have  assigned  and 
taken  great  lotts  to  themselves  but  have  not  assigned  any 
great  lotts  to  the  rest  of  the  planters  there.  And  they  have 
uniustly  given  away  lands  out  of  this  CompP3  and  other  men 
their  rights  And  also  have  overrated  this  CompP  and  other 
inhabits  there.  Lastly  the  said  defend13  keepe  the  Towne 
booke  disorderly  some  leaves  having  bin  cutt  forth  &  some 
blotts  and  other  defects  there  are  therein  The  CompP  prayeth 
that  the  defend13  may  be  cnjuined  to  appeare  at  the  next 
Court  to  answere  the  premises  &  bring  the  said  Towne  booke 
wth  them.  [1—6] 

1   I   cannot  find  that  this  petition  of  also  deputies,  and  Warren  and  Silvester 

l.ichard    Lang   was    ever    acted   upon,  were   both   well-known    men  ;   so   it  is 

John  Upham  and  William  Smith  were  probable   that   tho   matter   was   passed 

both  commissioners  for  Weymouth,  and  over. 


LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  339 

Captainc  Richard  Morris  bound  to  Josuah  Hewes  for  141  to 
be  pd  20  April  px  23  Nov:  1040.  [6d.] 

Jolm  Rogers  of  Accamenticus  in  New  England  aged  about 
27  3'carcs  sworne  saith  that  in  or  about  May  last  past  he  this 
deponent  delivered  unto  Thomas  Jones  a  taylcr  who  after 
wards  dyed  as  this  deponent  hath  heard  by  the  blowing  up 
of  the  Mary  Rose  these  commodities  hereafter  following 
to  be  made  into  stockings  &  a  cap  viz*  a  yarde  of  kersey 
or  thereabouts  worth  4s  and  two  yards  <fc  halfe  of  bayes 
worth  5s. 

Robert  Rogers  of  Boston  in  New  England  aged  23  yearcs 
sworne  saith  that  in  or  about  the  monctli  of  June  last 
Thomas  James  a  taylcr  who  was  slayne  in  the  blowing 
up  of  the  Mary  Rose  confessed  he  had  things  to  make  for 
this  deponents  kinsman  Jolm  Rogers  &  promised  to  make 
them  up. 

[188]    To  the  right  wor11  SR  FRANCIS  WYATT  Knight1  Governor 
and  Captaine  generall  of  his  Mats  Colony  in  Virginia 

The  Bill  of  'Complaint  of  JOHN  STRATTON  of  Salem  in  New 
England  gent 

In  all  humble  manner  shcwcth  unto  yor  worp  that  yor  sup 
pliant  is  sonnc  and  heire  and  Executor  of  the  last  will  and 
Testament  of  John  Stratton  sometime  of  Shot  ley  in  the  County 
of  Suffolk  gent  deceased  and  that  Joseph  Stratton  now  of 
James  City  in  Virginia  gent  yor  suppliants  uncle  and  brother 
of  the  said  Testator  in  or  about  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  One 
thousand  six  hundred  twenty  and  three  stood  indebted  by  bill 
or  bond  unto  the  said  Testator  yor  suppliants  said  ffathcr  in 
the  summe  of  sixty  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  prin- 
cipall  debt:  And  that  yor  suppliant  had  a  Brother  one  William 

1  Savng°,   says,  in   a  note  on   Win-  Sir  Francis   Wyatt    from   1639,    when 

throp,  ii.  159,   that  S.  "NY".  Campbell  is  Hervey  was  superseded,  to  1641,  when 

the  only  writer  known  to  him    "  who  Berkeley  was  appointed." 
takes  notice  of  the   administration    of 


340  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Stratton  of  Ardlyc  in  the  County  of  Essex  gent  deceased  who 
about  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  and 
twenty  eight  intended  to  passe  over  from  England  into  Vir 
ginia  in  Company  with  the  said  Joseph  Stratton  and  had  for 
his  portion  one  hundred  pounds  in  redy  money  in  his  purse 
and  besides  yor  suppliants  adventured  by  him  and  delivered 
into  his  hands  divers  moneys  goods  and  commodities  to  the 
value  of  Hil'ty  pounds  at  the  least  And  this  Complainant  saith 
that  the  said  Joseph  by  his  faire  intreaties  &  perswasions  in 
the  said  yeare  1628  borrowed  eighty  pounds  of  the  said  Willm 
out  of  his  said  portion  and  entered  into  one  bond  of  a  greater 
summe  how  much  in  certaine  this  Clomp*  cannot  remember  for 
the  repayment  of  the  said  eighty  pounds  after  that  sometime 
in  the  same  yeare  or  ncare  thereabouts  and  also  the  said  Joseph 
by  his  said  intreatys  and  perswasions  gott  into  his  hands  & 
possession  all  or  very  nearc  all  of  the  said  good&  &  commodi 
ties  wch  this  Complainant  delivered  unto  the  said  Will™  and 
the  said  Joseph  having  gotten  into  his  hands  the  said  801  and 
50^  worth  of  goods  and  upon  some  pretence  of  businesse  sent 
the  said  Will™  from  Plymouth  to  Ardelye  aforsd  the  said 
Joseph  bearing  the  said  Will™  in  hand  that  he  would  stay  at 
Plimouth  aforesaid  till  the  said  Will"1  returned  thither  and  so 
both  together  to  passe  over  into  Virginia  but  the  said  Will™ 
was  no  sooner  come  to  Ardelye  aforesaid  but  newes  followed 
him  that  the  said  Joseph  had  sett  sayle  &  was  gone  for  Vir 
ginia  and  so  he  carrycd  away  the  said  801  being  the  greatest 
parte  of  the  said  Will"13  portion  and  the  said  fifty  pounds 
worth  of  goods  and  commodities  and  left  the  said  Willm  in 
England  to  rely  upon  yop  suppliant  and  his  mother  for  his 
maintenance  to  their  great  costs  &  charges  And  yor  suppliant 
further  showeth  [189]  that  the  said  Joseph  never  payd  the 
said  debts  or  any  parte  of  the  same  either  to  yor  suppliants 
ffather  or  Brother  in  their  lives  time  nor  since  to  yor  suppliant 
and  further  that  his  mother  M'l8  Anne  Stratton  now  of  Salem 
aforesaid  did  deliver  both  the  said  specialtyes  to  yor  Suppliant 
about  ten  yeares  since  at  Dcdham  in  Essex  and  afterwards 
the  same  yeare  or  thereabout  yor  suppliant  lost  them  by  cast 
ing  away  of  a  boate  at  Cape  porpis  in  America  wherein  the 


LECIIFORWS    MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  841 

said  specialties  <fc  many  other  writings  <t  goods  of  this  Com- 
plts  were  lost.  Also  this  Compl*  sheweth  that  he  is  the  only 
brother  and  heire  of  the  said  Will™  and  that-  lie  was  indebted 
unto  yor  Suppts  and  tlicreforc  of  right  the  administration  of 
the  said  Willm  his  goods  rights  <fc  credits  belongeth  to  be 
granted  unto  yor  suppliant  as  next  of  kin  and  creditor  to 
the  said  Will"1  or  to  whomsoever  yor  suppl*  shall  depute  there 
unto  and  because  yor  Supl*  cannot  at  this  season  conveniently 
tr.ivell  to  Virginia  he  hath  deputed  Mr  Robert  Keayne  Mr 
Thomas  Owen  and  M.r  Thomas  Stegge  or  cither  of  them  to 
procure  the  said  letters  of  admin  unto  whome  yor  suppliant 
prayeth  yor  worps  to  grant  the  saide  or  to  one  of  them  and  to 
take  their  names  or  one  of  them  as  Complts  in  this  present 
bill  wth  yor  suppliant  for  the  better  recovery  of  the  premises 
in  yor  supplts  behalfe  And  this  Compl1  further  showeth  that 
the  said  Joseph  had  of  yor  suppP  one  watch  and  one  clocke  in 
the  said  yearc  1628  for  wch  the  said  Joseph  washy  agreement 
shortly  after  to  pay  yor  suppliant  five  pounds  but  he  hath  not 
to  this  day  payd  the  same  nor  any  partc  thereof  to  yor  sup 
pliant.  Notwithstanding  yor  said  suppl*  shewetli  that  the  said 
Joseph  did  often  times  both  by  word  of  mouth  &  letters  of  his 
acknowledge  the  said  debts  &  receipt  of  the  said  goods  &  of 
the  said  watch  &  clocke  <fe  promised  satisfaction  of  all  the 
premises  to  the  full  but  when  he  understood  that  yor  sup 
pliant  had  so  lost  the  said  spceialtycs  af ores'1  then  the  said 
Joseph  refused  to  performe  his  said  promises  or  to  make  pay 
ment  &  satisfaction  for  the  prmis  and  still  rcfuseth  so  to  doe 
Now  forasmuch  as  yor  suppliant  hath  no  remedy  by  the  strict 
rules  of  the  Common  Law  but  in  equity  he  ought  to  be 
relieved  in  the  premises  lie  humbly  prayeth  yor  worships 
releife  therein  according  to  equity  and  good  Conscience  and 
that  the  said  Compl*  may  be  allowed  not  only  the  said  prin- 
cipall  debts  comining  in  all  to  1951  or  thereabouts  but  for  Dam- 
mage  and  Deteyning  of  the  same  all  this  while  wch  comes  to 
200*  more  at  the  least,  and  yor  suppliant  prayeth  that  the  said 
Joseph  may  be  cnjoyned  immediately  to  answere  the  premises 
&  to  stand  to  yor  wrorpps  order  &  decree  in  the  same  And  yor 
suppliant  shall  pray  &c. 


342  LECUFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Robert  Keayne  of  Boston  in  N  E  m ;  makes  a  lcr  of  Attorn 
unto  John  Tinker l  of  Windsorc  upon  the  river  of  Connccti- 
cott  planter  to  receive  of  Will™  Ilubberd  of  Windsorc  103  of 
John  Haynes  E,sqr  21  10s  Mr  Robert  Saltonstall  501.  Henry 
Browning  41  49  8d-  Thomas  Withcrlc  21  14s  2d-  Will111  Quicke 
41  78  10d  Mr  lligginson  15s.  David  Anderson  u'l  0s.  [Is.] 

[190]    An  Ai'iidl  for  Mr  Keayne  twice  written.      [Is.] 

The  orders  of  the  last  Curt  for  Boston  p  Mr  Cogan.   [2—0] 

JOHN  SCOBELL  of  Boston  Carpenter  pit. 

JOHN  HOLLAND  of  Dorchester  ferryman  defend* 

in  trespass  on  the  Case.2 

1.  The  Compl1  shcweth  that  whereas  the  defendant  was  to  pay 
him  458  8d  for  Carpentry  worke  done  at  the  defendts  house 
by  agreement  of  both  partyes  and  31  198  8d  for  sawing  & 
squaring  of  timber  &  boards  and  the  said  last  menconed 
summes  the  Defend*  unjustly  as  his  owne  judge  by  order  of  a 
ccrtainc  attachment  in  his  owne  person  attached  and  defaulted 
81  18s  of  the  same  money  when  he  had  tendred  the  said  whole 
summe  of  six  pounds  five  shillings  and  foure  pence  before 
witnesse  saying  he  attached  this  money  as  due  unto  himselie 
never  sending  the  said  attach1"  to  this  Compl'  never  warning 
him  to  any  court  nor  giving  him  any  Coppy  of  the  said 
attachm1  and  deteyncd  the  same  in  his  hands  about  two 
moneths,  whereby  the  Pit  was  not  only  damnifyed  butt  the 

1  John  Tinker,   several    times   men-  nature  (vol.i.  p.  152), — \vliere  he  had 
tioned  in  tho  first  few  pages  of  the  Note-  to  do  with  a  different  character  from  the 
look,  was  at  this  time  at  Windsor,  but  meek  Seobell.     This  last  had  not  sutii- 
subsequently  was  of  Boston,  and  after-  cient  force  of  mind  even  to  do  anything 
wards    of    New    London.     The    names  which  should  have  brought  his   name 
which  follow  may  be  found  in  Savage,  down  to  us  (such  as  being  born,  marry- 
but  nothing  of  consequence  is  known  of  ing,    dying,    being    chosen    to    oversee 
them.  fences,  arid  the  like).     Holland,  on  tho 

2  There  is  no  mention  at  all  of  this  contrary,  was  well  known  in  Dorchester, 
case  in  the  Colonial  Record.      Holland's  — a  merchant  of  good  repute,  says  Sav« 
name   may    be    seen  there,    in  another  ago,  and  usually  honored  in  the  Touni 
case,    however,    of  somewhat  the  same  Record  by  the  title  of  Mr. 


LEC11FORD-S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  843 

Magistrates  and  Justice  of  the  Country  dishonoured  for  wch 
tlie  defend1  is  lyable  to  a  line  and  also  to  satisfye  the  pit  for 
his  dammagcs  aforesaid  wch  he  alleageth  to  he  ten  shillings  at 
the  least  hy  Arbitrament  of  ecrtaine  men  indifferent  and  that 
after  much  trouble  charge  it  expence  of  time  wch  the  defend1 
wrongfully  put  the  pit  to  thereabout.  [Win  Evans] 

2.  The  Plaintiff e  complaincth  that  when  the  said  Arbitration 
was  to  be  made  he  offered  the  defend1  to  submit  all  things 
wch  were  owing  by  the  plaintiffc  unto  the  defend4  unto  the 
said  Arbitrators  to  end  at  once  and  further  offered  to  pay 
and  allow  the  said  defend*  what  was  due  unto  him  for  any 
cause  or  thing  whatsoever  but  the  defend1  intending  to  cir 
cumvent  the  pit  wth  faire  pretences  alleaging  the  things  due 
to  him  the  said  defend*  were  for  womens  matters  and  that 
he  would  afterwards  put  those  things  to  the  arbitrmt  of  any 
indifferent  men  persuaded  the  pit  to  let  his  demands  only 
be  arbitrated  wch  was  done  accordingly  by  the  said  arbi 
trators  But  afterwards  the  said  defend1  hath  unjustly  quar 
relled  against  the  said  arbitrement  and  demanded  of  the 
plaint iffe  more  than  was  his  defendants  due  but  refused  to 
put  his  said  demands  to  the  arbitrement  of  any  arbitrators 
contrary  to  his  promise  aforesaid.  But  afterwards  and  after 
the  said  wrongfull  attachm*  upon  the  persuasion  of  some  of  the 
Church  of  Dorchester  the  said  defend*  did  condescend  to  sub 
mit  his  said  demands  to  the  arbitrement  of  the  two  Elders 
there  and  this  Compl1  did  also  yeild  thereunto.  Notwith 
standing  the  said  defend*  after  all  that  trouble  to  the  said 
Elders  ct  charges  and  trouble  to  the  plaintiffc  in  coming 
from  Boston  to  Dorchester  about  it  twice  brake  of  the  said 
arbitremt  because  he  could  not  persuade  this  Compl*  to  dis 
solve  the  said  first  Arbitracon  wch  he  knew  not  whether  he 
might  lawfully  doe  seeing  both  the  said  partyes  were  by  writ 
ing  under  their  hands  bound  in  201  apcece  to  stand  to  the 
award  of  the  said  first  Arbitrators.  [Witnesses  the  Arbitra 
tors.  Mf  Henry  Witherington  &  Wm  Ware.] 

And  in  the  Cort  before  the  Magistrates  it  the  Jury  the 
defend*  alleaged  that  this  Compl*  had  wroaght  wth  him  25 
weekes  &  brought  his  servant  Edward  Emans  to  witncsse  the 


344  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

same  upon  oath  and  according  to  that  time  demanded  for  dyct 
lodging  washing  &  starching  for  this  CompP  &  house  roome 
for  his  goods.  [The  Cort  hooke.  John  Matthewes  for  begin 
time  John  Smith  &  Richard  Evans  for  the  end.] 

for  dyet  from  (9)  4  1639.  for  6  weekes  the  pit  wrought  for 
meat  drink  lodging  and  20d  a  day.  \vch  comes  to  45s  8d  after 
wards  till  the  3d  day  of  the  first  mon :  yjjfo  the  pit  was  to 
worke  for  the  defend1  in  the  woods  to  saw  &  square  tim 
ber  &  boards  for  halfe  the  sawing  worke  [191]  or  the  value 
thereof  and  one  wceke  of  this  time  he  was  dyetted  by  the 
defend1  but  afterwards  dyetted  himselfe  saving  upon  last 
dayes  at  night  &  upon  the  Lords  Days  during  that  time. 

1.  lie  alleaged  &  proved  by  oath  in  Court  that  the  CompP 
had  diet  last  dayes  night  &  Lords  daycs  13  or  14.  whereas  it 
was  but  8  or  9  for  the  pit  wrought  wth  him  but  17  weekes  in 
all  so  hereby  the   pit  was  ovcrreckoned  5s  10d.    [Wm  Evans 
Agnes  Evans  Richard  Evans.] 

2.  for  washing  &  starching  89  G(1  reckoning  4d  a  weekc  for  25 
weekes  wch  was  23  8d  too  much  &  besydcs  the  pit  lost  a  band 
worth  2s  wch  is  49  8d  in  all.      [Wm  Evans  Agnes  Evans] 

3.  the  defendant  demanded  for  lodging  the  pit  the  said  first 
5  weekes  33  or  thereabouts  whereas  he  was  not  to  pay  anything 
for  the  same.     [John  Matthews  Rich  Evans.] 

4.  the  defend1  demanded  for  lodging  the  pit  wth  his  boycs  the 
said  last  dayes  nights  &  Lords  dayes  nights  28  Gd  when  his 
owne  servant  lodged  upon  the  pP8  bed  at  dorchcstcr  mill  the 
other  five  daycs  in  the  weeke  wch  at  ld  a  night  comes  to  3s  so 
that  for  this  the  pP  is  to  be  allowed  58.     [John  Smith  Wm 
Evans.] 

5.  the  defend1  demanded  for  houseroomc  of  2  halfe  hogs 
heads  2  chests  &  one  smale  box  &  a  case  of  bottles  8s  Gd  wcb 
yet  were  stowed  over  a  Cowhouse  wch  the  pit  built  &  was  not 
satisfied  for  till  the  time  of  the  said  attachment  and  the  de 
fend18  wife  &  servant  hurt  some  of  the  pit8  tooles  yet  for  14 
weekes  houseroomc  58  the  pit  willingly  alloweth  so  that  he 
may  have  forbearance  of  his  hire  of  458  8d  abovesaid.     [Wm 
Evans  <fc  his  wife  Agnes.] 


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6.  the  defend1  demanded  G9  for  three  daycs  worke  of  liis  in 
the  woods  wch  the  Compu  saith  was  cut  off  by  the  said  first 
arbitrcincnt  and  is  another  breach  of  the  said  arbitrcment  by 
the  defend1.  [Arb  :  Rich  Evans  John  Math  :  \V"  Ware.] 
AYhereby  the  pit  hath  bin  put  to  these  losses 
1.  at  the  making  of  the  first  arbitrement  15s.  2.  lost  for 
2  dayes  worke  to  demand  the  money  on  the  arbitrement  4s 
misreckoning  &  overrcckoning  H  8s.  18s  costs  of  suit  lossc 
of  time  (?.  2  dayes  worke  4s  viz*  los  so  that  the  pit  hath 
now  no  more  than  just  4"  4d  for  all  his  winters  worke  lost  and 
all  through  the  defend13  fault,  [6-0  r  39.  r  2.] 

IN  THE  COURT  AT  BOSTON  10.  1.  1G40. 

JOHN  SCOBELL  of  Boston  Carpenter  pit  \  f 

in  an  aecon  of 
JOHN  HOLLAND  of  Dorchester  tern/man  >.  ,7 

(  trespass  on  t/ie  ease, 
dcr  ) 

The  Pltl(Te  complaincth  that  whereas  the  defend*  was  in 
debted  unto  the  pit  about  (lie  10th  day  of  the  10th  moneth 
1()30.  in  Hie  summc  of  458  8d  for  carpentry  worke  done  by  the 
pit  for  the  defend1  at  his  house  in  Dorchester  at  the  rate  of 
twenty  pence  a  Day  dyct  and  lodging  by  agreement  betwccne 
the  said  pit  aiid  defend*  and  whcras  afterwards  the  said  pit 
was  by  like  agreement  bctwcene  them  to  worke  and  did 
worke  for  the  defend*  wth  one  of  his  servants  in  the  woods 
in  Dorchester  bounds  in  sawing  £  squaring  of  timber  & 
boards  from  about  the  said  10th  day  of  the  said  10th  moneth 
till  the  3d  day  of  the  first  moneth  then  following  for  halfe  of 
the  said  sawing  worke  or  the  value  thereof  and  to  have  meate 
and  drinkc  of  the  defend*  for  5s  a  wceke  and  the  pit  so  had 
mcate  £  drinkc  of  the  defend*  for  one  weeke  from  the  said 
tenth  day  but  afterwards  by  agreement  also  betweene  them 
the  said  pit  was  to  find  and  did  find  himselfc  meate  &  drinkc 
in  the  woods  and  whereas  the  said  pi*  received  some  sniale 
comforts  of  the  defend*  as  houscroomc  in  an  outhouse  for 
a  few  goods  last  dayes  at  night  suppers  <v  Lords  daycs  dyct 
washing  &  starching  lone  of  a  boate  <t  men  to  fetch  the 
plts  goods  by  night  and  lodging  the  said  last  dayes  &  night  £ 


34G  LECllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Lords  daycs  <fc  nights  for  wch  ther  was  no  agreement  betweeno 
them  of  any  payment  to  be  made  by  the  pi*  for  the  same.  [192] 
The  said  pi*  saith  that  he  upon  the  said  3rd  day  of  the  first 
moneth  upon  just  cause  given  by  the  defend*  &  his  servant  left 
off  workc  in  the  woods  for  the  deft  and  afterwards  demanded 
of  him  satisfaccon  for  the  said  workc  according  to  the  said 
agreement  But  the  said  defend1  refusing  to  let  the  said  plfc 
have  halfc  the  said  sawing  worke  for  his  labour  aforesayd  and 
going,  about  to  deceive  the  pi*  of  his  just  rccompcncc  for  his 
labour  aforesaid  alleaged  that  the  plaintiffe  was  not  to  be  his 
owne  judge  of  the  worth  of  his  said  labour  nor  should  have 
his  owne  asking  but  required  the  same  might  be  arbitrated 
bctwccnc  them  by  indifferent  men  whereto  the  pi*  willingly 
condescended  but  the  said  defend*  refused  to  attend  the  said 
arbitrament  <fc  delayed  the  pi*  &  put  to  much  trouble  there 
about  so  that  the  pi*  was  at  length  forced  to.^ue  the  defend' 
at  the  law  &  the  pi*  wth  his  witnesses  &  the  defend*  coming 
to  Boston  thereabout  upon  the  2  day  of  the  7th  mo  :  1640  the 
defend*  then  &  there  promised  the  pi*  if  that  he  would  with 
draw  his  said  accon  &  put  the  said  matters  in  controversy 
betweene  them  for  the  said  worke  to  the  arbitration  of  indif 
ferent  men  that  the  defend*  would  also  afterwards  put  all  his 
demands  touching  the  controversy  aforesayd  being  as  he  said 
but  worn  ens  matters  to  the  arbitrement  of  men  indifferent 
wthout  suit  and  the  said  pi*  indeed  saith  that  he  trusting  upon 
the  said  promise  of  the  defend*  did  withdraw  the  said  accon 
and  thereupon  the  pi*  put  the  same  matter  of  the  worke  in 
the  woods  to  the  arbitrement  and  they  bound  themselves  each 
to  other  in  a  bond  or  assumpsit  of  201  a  peece  to  stand  to  the 
arbitrement  of  indifferent  men  betweene  them  that  is  to  say 
John  Mnthcw  Robert  Streson  Richard  Evans  and  Will"1  Ware 
for  and  about  all  matters  in  controversy  betweene  them  the 
said  pi*  and  defend*  touching  the  said  sawing  workc  &,  timber 
wrought  <fe  squared  in  the  woods  &  all  things  thereabout  And 
the  said  Arbitrators  thereupon  awarded  that  the  said  defend* 
should  pay  the  said  pit  for  the  same  31  198  8d  out  of  wch  the 
pi*  was  to  allow  unto  the  defend*  for  worke  done  for  one 
[W<IM£]  Leeds  228  Gd  whereof  the  pit  was  redy  and  did  offer 


LECIlFOlUrS  MANUSCRIPT  NOTEBOOK.  347 

the  defend1  allowance  And  the  pit  saitli  the  defend*  had 
notice  of  the  said  Arbitrament  and  being  demanded  by  the 
Pit  to  fulfill  the  same  he  the  defend1  pretended  he  would  so 
do  but  did  not  pcrforme  the  same  contrary  to  his  said  bond 
or  assumpsit  of  20l  and  deteyncd  the  said  543  8d  nyne  or  ten 
moncths  and  contrary  to  his  promise  aforesd  refused  to  put 
his  said  demands  touching  the  said  controversies  to  the  ar- 
bitrement  of  indifferent  men  and  under  colour  of  an  attach 
ment  wch  he  as  his  owne  judge  in  his  owne  person  executed 
deteyncd  the  said  pits  right  upon  the  said  arbitrament  being 
21.  17s.  2d.  two  moneths  or  thereabouts  never  warning  the 
plaintiffe  to  appeare  at  any  Court  nor  giving  him  any  coppy 
or  reading  of  the  said  attachmt  to  him  And  although  the  pit 
and  defend1  afterwards  submitted  themselves  touching  the 
said  defendts  demands  to  the  arbitrament  of  the  two  ruling 
Elders  of  the  Church  of  Dorchester  yet  the  said  defend1  after 
wards  when  the  said  Elders  mett  to  consider  thereof  brake  off 
the  said  arbitrament  because  the  pit  would  not  dissolve  the 
said  first  arbitrement  touching  the  said  workc  in  the  woods 
And  thereupon  the  defend1  brought  his  accon  for  his  said 
demands  iu  the  last  Court  at  Boston  whereof  the  pit  had  but 
one  daycs  cleare  notice  and  then  and  there  before  the  Magis 
trates  ct  Jury  in  open  Court  taking  the  pit  unprovided  of  his 
proofes  did  overreckon  the  pit  and  by  and  under  proofes 
recovered  against  the  pit  above  thirty  shillings  more  than 
by  any  right  or  reason  he  was  to  pay  unto  the  said  defend* 
bcsydcs  costs  trouble  charges  and  other  dammages  the  pit 
received  thereabout  in  all  26*  And  thereupon  he  brings  his 
suit,  [5s.  lOrf.,  4s.  8d.,  3s.  Oc?.,  5s.  Od.,  3s.  Grf.,  Gs.  =  H  8s.  Od] 
The  pits  proofes. 

1.  That  the  defendant  owed  the  pit  45s  8d  for  carpentry 
worke  done  about  the  10th  of  December  1639  and  payd  him 
not  for  it  till  the  last  of  September  1640.     [Cort  booke  John 
Mathews  Wm  Evans  Win  Ware.] 

2.  That  the  worke  in  the  woods  was  to  be  done  on  such 
termes  as  is  declared  &  began  about  the  said  tenth  day  of  the ' 
said  10th  moneth  and  ended  the  3rd  day  of  the  first  month 
following.     [Richard  Evans  \Villm  Evans.] 


348  LECHFOllD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

3.  for   the  nieatc  &  drinkc  at  5s  one  wcckc.     [The  (lefts 
note.] 

4.  That  the  pit  had  just  cause  to  leave  off  working  for  the 
defend1.     [John  Smith.] 

[193]  5.  That  the  defend1  refused  to  pay  the  pll  for  the 
workc  in  the  woods  without  arbitrcment  and  yet  would  not 
let  it  be  arbitrated.  [Will111  Evans  Richard  Evans.] 

0.  To  prove  the  promise  about  withdrawing  the  plt3  accon 
<fc  putting  the  worke  in  the  woods  to  arbitrcment  that  there 
upon  the  defend1  would  put  his  demands  to  arbitrcment. 
[The  Arbitrators  John  Mathews  Wm  Ware.] 

7.  To  prove  the  plt3  withdrawing  his  accon  &  the  bond  or 
assumpst  of  20*.     [Mr  Nowell  &  the  Arbitrate] 

8.  To   prove   the   award   to   be    as   it   is   declared.     [The 
Arbitral™.] 

9.  That  the  defend1  had  notice  of   the  said^  award  made. 
[The  Arbitral".] 

10.  That  the  defend1  never  payd  the  21  178  2d  to  the  pit  al 
though  demanded  whereby  the  def1  hath  forfeited  to  the  said 
pit  the  said  bond  or  assumpst  of  twenty  pounds.    [Wra  Evans.] 

Objection  the  defend1  attached  it. 

Answere  the  pit  was  never  possessed  of  the  money  and 
therefore  the  award  was  never  fulfilled  by  the  defend1.  [Wrn 
Evans.] 

11.  In  executing  that  attachment  the  defend1  was  his  owne 
judge  and  therein  committed  a  cryme  to  the  dishonor  of  the 
Magistrates  and  Judges  of  the  Country  wch  is  an  offence  to 
be  punished  by  the  Magistrates.     [Wm  Evans  Gill  confcst  in 
Cort.] 

12.  The  defend1  never  read  the  said  attachment  nor  gave 
a  coppy  of  it  to  the  pi*  nor  warned  him  to  any  Cort  there 
upon.     [Let  the  Del1  prove  this  if  he  can.] 

13.  That  the  defend1  refused   to  put  his  demands  of  the 
wonu-us  matters  to  arbitrcment  and  quarrelled  against  the 
former  just  arbitrcment.     [Wm  Evans.] 

14.  That  afterwards  the  pi*  &  defend1  submitted  themselves 
touching  the  defend19  demands  to  the  arbitrcment  of  the  two 
Elders.     [M!  Henry  Withorington  &  Wm  Ware.] 


LEClIFOlUrS   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

15.  That  after  this   notwithstanding  the  defend1  brake  of 
the  said  arbitrcm*  because  the  pit  would  not  dissolve  <fc  un- 
doe  the  said  first  arbitrem1  wch  if  he  should  have  done  the 
defend1  like    enough   would    have    taken    advantage   ag*  him 
thereupon  for  his  201.     [Mr  Witherington  AVm  Ware.] 

16.  That  the   defend1   brought  his  accon  for  the   said  de 
mands  for  the  womens  matters  in  the  Cort  at  Boston  whereof 
the   pP  had  but  one  daycs  notice,  for  he  heard  the  defend1 
would  bring  it  in  Court  upon  the  3rd  day  <fc  the  Cort  was  the 
lift.     [Will™  Ware.] 

17.  for  the  dcfendts  ovcrrcckoning  the  pll  &  under  proofes 
made  in  Cort. 

A.  Coppy  of  the  Declaration  to  the  defend1.     [Is.] 

[194]    IN  THE  CORT  AT  BOSTON  (10)  1.  1G40. 

EDWARD  GRIFFITH  1  merch'pl*    j  .„  dM  m  g.  gd. 
RICHARD  CALLICOTT  defend1         \ 

The  pi*  saith  that  the  defend*  &c.  dcteyncd  8  ycares  dam 
201.      [30l  8  ycares  deteyned.     ts.] 

The    peticon    of    John    Hogg2   brother    of   Roger    Hogg. 
[1-6] 

The  peticon  of  JOHN  PALMER  s  the  younger  of  Boston  Carpenter. 

Showcth  that  whereas  yor  pcticoner  married  Mary  Smith 
daughter  of   Christofer  Smith  of   Rocksbury  and  upon    the 

1  Edward   Griffith    must  have   been  take   the  land  back  again.     This  was 
some  Englishman  or  other  who  turned  March  21,  1636.     In   1610,  March  30, 
up  at  Boston  for  a  short  time.  John  Palmer  the,  younger  was  admitted 

2  John  Hogg  is  merely  noted  by  Sav-  to  be  an  inhabitant,   provided  that  lie 
age,  who  says,  "  Mass.  1639.  Felt.    Per-  could  "  gett  an  house  or  land  to  sett  an 
haps  he  was  only  transient."     He  does  house  upon  (it  being  not  proper  to  allowe 
not  mention  Roger  in  any  way.  a  man  an  Inhabitant  Without  habita- 

8  From  the  Boston  Town  Record  it  tion)."     In  1641,  Nov.  20th,  there  was 

appears  that  a  grant  of  land  was  made  a  grant  of  land  made  to  John  Palmer, 

to  John  Palmer  (where  or  when  is  not  Sr.,  at  Braintry  for  two  heads.     In  the 

stated),  and  the  same  not  being  built  Book  of  Possessions  the   two  Palmers, 

upon,   the  Town  declared  itself  free  to  father  and  son,  have  houses  on  the  north 


350  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

marriage  yor  peticoncrs  father  John  Palmer  promised  to  be- 
stowe  upon  yor  peticoner  for  his  portion  the  house  &  ground 
at  Braintree  to  be  made  worth  40*  yet  yor  peticoners  said 
father  nath  not  performed  his  said  promise  and  besides  hath 
taken  away  from  yor  peticoner  10*  that  was  yor  peticoners 
owne  money  gotten  since  his  said  marriage  and  deteyned  408 
wch  he  lent  his  said  father  and  keepeth  backe  40s  more  wcb  is 
due  to  yor  peticoner  for  his  halfe  of  the  new  wharf c  worke 
and  moreover  wcb  most  of  all  grciveth  yor  peticoner  his  said 
father  hath  greivously  abused  yor  peticoners  wife  wth  ill  words 
&  mockings  unfit  for  him  to  mention  against  his  said  father 
Yor  peticoner  humbly  prayeth  the  speedy  releife  of  this  Court 
in  the  premises  against  his  said  father  that  the  said  house  & 
ground  may  be  presently  assured  to  yor  peticoner  and  the  said 
moneys  restored  to  him,  <fec.  [2-6  &  a  note  to  Mr  Hill.] 

Walter  Merry 1  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Captaine 
Rih :  Morris  to  apprehend  &  send  backe  John  Savery  his  serv* 
(10)  2.  1640.  [I*.] 

M'  Valentine  Hill  of  Boston  merchant  and  Mf  Thomas 
May  hew2  of  Watertowne  in  N  E  gent  bound  to  each  other 

side  of  Mill  Street  (now  Summer).    The  John  Seberry  mentioned  later  (p.  236) 

father's  house  was  some  way  down  the  in  connection  with  Walter  Merry,  were 

road  ;  the  son's  was  near  the  corner  (of  it  not  for  the  difference  in   condition. 

Washington  Street).    Curiously  enough,  John   Seberry  is  called   in   the  Boston 

there   are  four   Christopher   Smiths  in  Town  Record  a  seaman,  which  trade  is 

Savage,  no  one  of  whom  can  be  the  man  not   incompatible    with   a   shipwright's 

here  mentioned.    There  is  noted  a  Chris-  journeyman. 

topher  Smith  of  Hartford,  thought  to  2  Thomas  Mayhewe  senior,  most  prob- 
be  son  of  one  of  the  same  name  having  ably,  who  was  this  year  (as  well  as  in 
a  sister  Mary  who  was  married  to  one  other  years)  representative  from  Water- 
William  Partridge.  John  Palmer  is  town.  Nicholas  Davison  was  a  Charles- 
thought  to  have  moved  to  Wethersfield  town  merchant,  of  whom  much  may 
before  his  death,  and  it  may  very  well  be  read  in  Wyman  and  in  the  Suffolk 
be  that  this  Mary  was  his  widow.  Deeds,  as  well  as  elsewhere.  He  was  the 
1  Walter  Merry  was  a  shipwright,  agent  of  Matthew  Cradock,  and  in  other 
having  his  shipyard  and  wharf  at  the  ways  a  prominent  man.  The  other  arbi- 
Point  bearing  his  name,  just  to  the  trators  were  among  the  first  merchants 
north  of  Gallup' s  Point.  John  Savery  of  the  Colony,  and  we  need  not  doubt 
I  should  be  tempted  to  believe  to  be  that  the  case  was  decided  on  its  merits. 


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in  3001  to  stand  to  the  arbitremcnt  of  Mr  Will"1  Tyng  Josiah 
Ilewes  Mr  Will1"  Pierce  and  Nicholas  Davison  so  the  arbitre 
mcnt  be  made  in  writing  and  delivered  to  each  party  wthin 
the  space  of  9  daycs.  [2s.] 

Josiah  Ilewes  of  Roxbury  in  New  England  merchant  makes 
a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Ca.pt  R.  Morris  to  receive  &  recover  of 
Richard  Turner  of  Providence  planter  the  suninie  of  383  due 
3  ycare  (10)  2.  1040.  [Gc?.] 

Richard  Wright  of  Braintree  yeoman  to  be  bound  to  Mf 
Henry  Symonds  for  the  sum  of  6l  10s  8  to  be  paid  25  March 
next  dat'  29  Sept  1640  Gs  Gd  in  6-17-2.  [Is.] 

And  6.  9.  4(1  to  M1;  George  Alcocke1  of  Roxbury  to  be  10. 

2.  40.     [6.] 

[195]  Henry  Waltham  against  Thomas  Richards  2  and  Wcl- 
thin  his  wife  in  Weymouth  for  the  division  of  one  dwelling 
house  belonging  to  the  mill  in  Weymouth.  [Is.] 

Thomas  Syinons3  to  Mr  Richard  Parker  a  mortgage  of  his 
house  and  land  at  Braintree  10.  3.  1640  for  18  to  be  pd  4.  24 
px.  [U] 

I  John  Pollard  late  of  Belcham  in  the  County  of  Essex 
husbandman  doe  hereby  acknowledge  that  I  have  received  of 
Bozoum  Allen  of  Ilinghani  in  N  E  mercer  nyno  hundred 
weight  of  cheese  in  Caske  wch  was  sent  over  in  the  Parramor 
of  London  by  Mf  Thomas  Rodbard  Cheesemonger  of  London 
to  the  said  Bozoum  Allen  for  a  thousand  weight  whereof  I 
the  said  John  Pollard  doc  hereby  promise  to  discharge  the 
said  Boz.  Allen  against  the  said  Thomas  Rodbard  of  121  128 
for  the  said  Cheese  &  caskc  but  I  the  said  Bozoum  Allen  doc 

1  George  Alcocko  (see  p.  148,  ante)  8  "The.    24th    of    FeK,    ](>!!!),    was 
ili<.'cl  Dec.  30,  1640,  or  thereabouts.  granted  to  Thomas  Simons,  of  Mount 

2  Henry  Waltham  and  Thomas  Rich-  "\Vooly  stone,  for  10  heads  40  Acres  upon 
ards,  it  will  he  remembered,  wore  part-  the  Covenant  of  3.-?.  per  acre  "  (Boston 
iiers  in    the    mill  at   Weymouth  ;    see  Town  Records,  i.  49). 

pp.  178,  anlr,  and  207,  post. 


352  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-ROOK. 

hereby  declare  that  I  would  not  have  willingly  payd  so  much 
by  twenty  shillings  for  it  because  the  said  cheese  was  not 
sent  according  to  Covenant.  [1-G] 

A  petition,  for  George  Allen  l  about  the  ferry  at  Weymouth. 


Thomas  Allen  of  Dorchester  in  N.  A.  gen  Srieant  Richard 
Callacott  of  the  same  and  Ensigne  John  Holman2  of  the  same 
bound  to  Edward  Michaelson  in  M  libris.  Condition.  to  save 
him  harmlesse  of  one  judgment  of  4871  148  3d  recovered 
against  him  at  the  suit  of  Thomas  Harwood  &  James  Gammon 
merchants  in  an  accon  of  the  Case.  [1-] 


And  a  Counterbond  of  2  M1  by  the  two  obligees  unto  Ensign 
Holman  dut'  10.  10.  1640.  [Is.] 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Robert  Keayne  of 
Boston  in  N  E  m  doe  hereby  promise  that  if  John  Stratton 
gent  shall  deliver  unto  Mf  Thomas  Stegg  or  Mr  Thomas  Owen 
at  Virginia  goods  and  merchandize  wch  shall  be  of  the  value 
of  100*  when  the  said  goods  &  merchandize  come  heere  in 
New  England  and  shall  be  heerc  delivered  unto  me  or  to  my 
use  that  after  I  am  satisfyed  for  my  iust  debt  wch  the  sayd 
John  Stratton  owcth  me  and  for  such  dammages  in  forbear 
ance  concerning  the  same  as  two  indifferent  men  to  be  named 
by  mysclfe  shall  judge  I  will  be  accountable  unto  him  for  so 
much  as  the  said  goods  &  merchandize  shall  come  unto  above 
the  said  satisfaction  10.  11.  1G40. 

Knowc  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  John  Stratton  of 
Salem  in  N  E  gen  doe  hereby  promise  unto  Robert  Keayne  of 
Boston  in  N  E  merchant  that  if  I  can  recover  or  receive  in 

1  George   Allen,    of    Wcyinonth,    is  as  well  as  the  rest,  a  prominent  Dor- 
noted  in  Savage.     He  is  also  mentioned  Chester  man,  and  his  name  occurs  fre- 
later  in  the  Note-look  (p.  215).  quently  in  the  Colony  and  Town  Reconls. 

2  Ensign  John  Holman  is  the  only  He  was  selectman  in   1636,  ensign  in 
one    here   who   has    not    already    been  1637,  and  died  along  towards  1652  with 
spoken  of  in  the  Note-look.     He  was,  a  very  good  estate. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  853 

Virginia  or  Maryland  the  debt  wch  Mf  Thomas  Morris  cwcth 
me  and  the  debt  wch  my  uncle  Joseph  Stratton  owcth  me  or 
any  of  them  that  I  will  out  of  the  same  deliver  into  the  hands 
of  Mr  Thomas  Stegg  or  Ml;  Thomas  Owen  goods  <fc  com 
modities  \vch  shall  be  of  the  value  of  1001  of  lavvfull  money  of 
England  when  they  come  heere  in  Nc\v  England  to  be  there 
delivered  upon  the  adventure  &  charge  by  the  joynt  procure 
ment  of  myselfe  and  the  said  Thomas  Stegg  or  Thomas  Owen 
unto  the  said  Robert  Keaync  at  his  now  dwelling  house  in 
Boston  to  the  end  he  may  out  of  the  same  rayse  &  deduct  so 
much  money  as  shall  satisfyc  him  for  his  iust  debt  wch  J  owe 
him  and  for  such  dammages  in  forbearance  concerning  the 
same  as  two  indifferent  men  to  b(5  chosen  by  the  said  Robert 
Keayne  shall  judge  and  be  accountable  unto  me  for  the  rest 
10.  11.  1040. 

[196]  To  the  right  wor11  8ir  Francis  Wyatt  Knight  Gov 
ernor  &  Captaine  Gencrall  of  his  Ma"  Colony  in  Virginia  and 
all  other  his  Mats  Judges  and  Officers  whomsoever  it  may 
concerne.  I  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiccon 
of  the  Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  doe  hereby  certify 
that  I  have  received  this  present  Ccrtificat 1  before  written 
from  John  Eudicott  Esqr  therein  named  and  have  at  the 
request  of  John  Stratton  therein  also  named  granted  to 
exempli  lie  the  same  In  testimony  whereof  1  have  caused 
the  publicke  scale  of  our  Colony  to  be  hereunto  affixed  the 
eleventh  day  of  December  Anno  Dili  1640. 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen  I  John  Stratton  in  this  present 
Letter  of  Attorney  mentioned  doc  hereby  make  and  declare 
my  last  will  and  Testament  touching  the  suits  <fc  matters 
therein  contained  as  followeth  My  Will  is  that  if  it  please 
God  that  I  depart  this  life  before  the  said  suits  £  matters  are 
finished  that  my  Attorneys  in  the  said  letter  of  Attorney 
named  shall  be  my  Executors  joyntly  or  severally  to  sue  for 
&  recover  the  premises  In  testimony  whereof  I  have  here- 

1  The  certificate  spoken  of  must  lie  that  on  p.  186. 
23 


354  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

unto  sett  my  hand  the  day  of  the  date  of  the  said  letter  of 
Attorney  1640. 

And  I  the  said  Governor  doe  hereby  certify  that  the  above- 
said  John  Stratton  did  in  my  presence  publish  and  declare  the 
said  writing  in  the  margin  to  be  his  last  will  <fc  testament 
touching  the  premises  wch  I  grant  also  to  testifye  under  the 
said  publicke  seale  even  the  day  &  yeare  aforesaid. 

Thomas  Morris  of  the  Province  of  Maryland  in  Virginia 
Chirurgion  owes  by  bill  dated  25  Aug.  1639  unto  John 
Stratton  merchant  831  148  2d  to  be  pd  in  tobacco*  ult'  nov : 
1639. 

I  John  Stratton  in  the  within  written  letter  of  Attorney 
named  doe  hereby  in  like  manner  authorize  my  said  Attorneys 
therein  mentioned  joyntly  or  severally  to  demand  receive  & 
recover  of  &  from  Thomas  Morris  of  the  Province  of  Mary 
land  in  Virginia  Chirurgion  the  summc  of  thirty  three  pounds 
fourtcene  shillings  and  two  pence  wch  lie  owctli  me  by  bill 
dated  25  Aug:  1639  &  should  have  bin  payd  unto  me  in 
tobacco  upon  the  last  day  of  November  1639  as  by  the  same 
bill  appeareth  &  all  costs  &  dammnges  concerning  the  same 
Witncsse  my  hand  hereunto  sett  the  day  &  yeare  last  within 
written. 

[197]  John  Stratton  of  Salem  in  New  England  gent  aged 
about  34  y.  sworne  saith  that  his  mother  Mr!a  Anne  Stratton  of 
Salem  did  depose  and  subscribe  to  a  certaine  writing  of  her 
testimony  cone  the  writing  hereunto  annexed  is  the  testimony 
of  his  mother  Mr!3  Anne  Stratton  mentioned  in  the  note  of 
testimony  under  the  hand  of  Isackc  Allerton  mariner  wch  is 
Ccrtifyed  unto  the  Governor  of  Virginia. 

A  note  of  charges  for  M?  STRATTONS  ivritings. 

The  Certificate  of  testimonies  written  2s  (]<*  y  peece  .  6  6 

The  letter  of  Attorney  will  Adition  &  Ortificats      ...  2  6 
The   two   reciprocall  writings    betweene    M?    Keayne    & 

Mi' Stratton          1  6 


LECIIFORD'S   MAXUSCII1PT  NOTE-BOOK.  355 

The  Coppie  of  M^  Strattons  writing  to  M*  Keayne       ..10 
The  exemplication  of  Mr.  Morris  his  hill     ......     1      0 

The  bills  of  Complaint   ............     5      0 

Two  letters  of  Attorney  by  Mri.8  Stratton     ......      1      6 

Another  affidavit  concerning  Ml  Allertons  testimony    .     .   17      6. 

[Mr  Kcaync  is  to  pay  this  bill.] 

John  Humfrey  Esqr  Ictts  unto  Zachcus  Gould  of  Lynne  y 
All  those  his  two  ffarmes  one  called  the  Plaines  l  and  the 
other  called  the  Ponds  wth  the  appurtenances  for  10  yeares 
from  29  of  7br  last  1601  the  second  yeare  and  after  200*  ,p  an. 
to  be  paid  in  conic  wheatc  &  rye  at  58  <p  bs.  barley  at  4s  <p  bs. 
at  Saggamore  Hill  Stocke  16  oxen  12  Cowes  6  heyfars  6  last 
y  calves  2  bulls  4  sowcs  &  2  boares  2  mares  and  2  horses. 
Buildings  it  necessary  fencings  to  be  made  by  the  Lessee  <fe 
to  be  allowed  out  of  the  rent.  The  stocke  to  be  inventoryed 
and  the  like  in  kind  to  be  roclxt  at  the  end.  [1-6] 

Nchcmiah  Bourne  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  unto  Captaine 
Thomas  Willoughby  of  Virginia  to  recover  100*  &  daminagcs 
<tc  p  protest.  [1-0] 

A  Ccrtificat     [1-0] 

Samucll  Pcirce  of  London  merchant  by  vcrtno  of  a  letter 
of  Attorney  from  Thomas  Southey  of  London  merchant  dated 
March  12.  1637  13  Car.  releases  Robert  Scdgwicko  of  Charles- 
townc  in  N.  E.  merchant  pnt  &c.  [3s.] 

Thomas  Owen  of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  makes 
a  bill  of  sale  of  15  Indian  cloathcs  unto  Samuel  Itutchinson 
and  Thomas  Savage  for  security  of  payment  of  1131  by  the 
15th  of  March  next  And  a  bond  of  2001  to  save  them  harm- 
Icsse  for  the  not  payment  of  1131  wch  he  received  of  them 
upon  the  21th  day  of  March  last  past  and  should  have  ben 
payd  to  Mr  John  Pococke  of  London  Wollcndraper. 


1  For  a  lonsf.  of  the  farm  called  tho  "Plains"  by  John  Humfrey  to  Zaccheus 
Gould,  see  j>.  147,  ante. 


356  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

A  bond  by  Nathaniel  Bisco l  of  Waterton  and  M?  Owen  in 
300*  to  save  MT  Hutchinsou  and  M'  Savage  haruilcsso  &c. 
[2-6] 

[198]  Thomas  Dudley  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction 
of  the  Mattachusetts  bay  in  New  England  to  all  his  Ma13 
Judges  &  Justices  whomsoever  it  may  conccrnc  greeting 
Kuowe  yce  that  1  have  bin  infunned  by  writing  under  Hie 
hand  of  Ml;  Increase  Nowell  one  of  the  Assistants  and  Secre 
tary  of  this  Jurisdiction  who  was  appointed  one  of  the  Com 
missioners  about  the  estate  of  Mr.  Natha :  Eaton2  that  they 
the  said  Commissioners  did  onely  deliver  to  M^  John  Cogan 
but  one  Cowe  wch  they  left  wth  him  &  for  wch  hce  is  to  be 
accountable  and  that  other  of  the  said  estate  he  hath  not  any 
toward  the  100*  delivered  by  him  to  the  said  Nath  Eaton  that 
the  said  Increase  Nowell  knoweth  or  hath  heard  of.  In 
testimony  whereof  I  have  caused  the  publicke  scale  of  our 
Colony  to  be  hereunto  aflixcd  even  the  nynetecnth  day  of 
December  in  the  sixteenth  yea  re  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Sov- 
eraignc  Lord  King  Charles  &c  Aimoqr  Dili  16-40.  [1-] 

The  Amivcre 3  of  JOHN  COGAN  of  Boston  in  N  E  merchant 
defend*  to  the  bill  of  Complaint  of  RICHARD  EOXWILL 
Complainant 

All  advantages  of  exemption  to  the  incertainties  &  insufli- 
encies  of  the  said  bill  of  Compl*  to  this  defend*  now  <fc  at  all 
times  hereafter  saved  this  defendant  for  his  answere  saith 
that  whereas  the  CompP  alleageth  in  his  said  bill  of  Complaint 

1  Nathaniel  Biseo  [or  Brisco]  was  a  appointed  by  the  Court   to  settle  the 
rich   tanner  of   Watertown,    selectman  affairs  of  Eaton  were  William  Jennison 
later  in  life,  and  father  of  the  student  and  John  Bridge.     See  Mass.  Col.  Rcc., 
of  the  same  name  \vho  got  into  trouble  i.  277. 

with  Nathaniel  Eaton.  3  This  may  have  some  reference  to 

2  Nathaniel  Eaton  was  not  dead,  as  the  business  in  which   the  same  names 
might  from  this  be  supposed,  but,  on  appear  in  the   Note-book,  p.  159.     Tho- 
the  contrary,  was  living  in   Virginia  in  mas  Gorges  was  nephew  of  Sir  Ferdi- 
a  manner  very  horrible  to  his  New  Eng-  nando  Gorges,  and  was  in  New  England, 
land  acquaintances,  already  described  in  at  York,  from  1640  to  1643. 

these  pages.     The  other  commissioners 


LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  357 

that  he  was  forced  to  enter  into  the  bill  obligatory  mentioned 
in  the  said  bill  of  complaint  this  defend1  saith  that  he  did  not 
in  any  unjust  manner  force  the  said  Comp1*  to  enter  into  the 
said  bill  obligatory  but  fairely  required  him  to  performe  his 
former  ingagement  to  this  defend*  for  the  same  under  his  the 
Complta  ownc  hand  writing  to  this  defend1  made  <fc  delivered 
the  sixt  day  of  January  Anno  Dni  1032  as  by  the  same 
appeareth  And  whereas  the  said  Comp1*  in  his  said  bill  of 
Compl*  saith  that  the  said  goods  &  commodities  by  him 
received  of  this  defend*  whereupon  the  debt  in  the  said  bill 
obligatory  grew  were  unserviceable  &  not  useful  in  the  Coun 
try  and  lay  long  on  his  hands  this  defend1  saith  that  the  most 
of  them  were  knives  &  some  other  things  there  were  amongst 
them  wcb  this  defend4  thought  by  advise  to  be  best  for  the 
Country  and  about  those  times  this  defend*  hath  bin  informed 
that  two  or  three  knives  would  have  traded  for  a  beaver 
skinne  and  this  defend*  saith  that  the  said  goods  being  sent 
in  November  1629  this  defend*  comming  himselfe  about  two 
or  three  yeares  after  that  into  the  Country  would  willingly 
have  received  the  said  goods  again  if  the  said  Comp1*  had  not 
traded  them  away  and  for  anything  I  know  for  two  or  three 
hundred  weight  of  bever  And  therefore  this  defend*  saith 
that  he  hopeth  it  standeth  wth  equity  &  good  Conscience  that 
he  should  have  and  recover  from  the  said  Comp1'  not  only 
the  iust  debt  in  the  said  bill  obligatory  specify cd  but  all  his 
dammages  [199]  lost  by  the  not  payment  and  deteyning  of 
the  same  wch  comes  to  15  pounds  above  the  said  debt  All 
wch  matters  this  defend*  humbly  offercth  unto  the  wor11  Thomas 
Gorge  Esqr  and  the  rest  of  the  wor11  Commissioners  for  the 
Province  of  Mayne  and  all  £  every  Competant  Judge  Chan 
cellor  &  officer  therein  the  Court  of  Chancery  there  estab 
lished  to  aver  &  prove  as  the  said  Court  shall  award  and 
prayeth  to  be  thence  dismissed  wtb  his  reasonable  costs  & 
charges  in  this  behalfe  susteyned.  [2-0  Letter  —  6] 


358  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


IN  THE  COURT  AT  BOSTON. 

JOHN  COGAN  merchant  Pit.  ~\  in  an  action  of 

THOMAS    SYMONDS,   NATHANIEL   WOODWARD,  j-        trespasse 
JOHN  BIGGS,  WILLM  TALLMAGE,  Defend"    J  upon   the   case. 


The  said  John  Cogan  complaincth  against  the  said  defend18 
for  that  whereas  heretofore  he  did  reteyne  the  said  Thomas 
Symonds  to  doe  a  parcell  of  Carpentry  worke  for  the  said  pit 
to  he  adioyned  unto  his  dwelling  house 1  in  Boston  aforesaid 
for  80*  and  the  said  Thomas  Symonds  made  the  low  huildings 
adioyning  to  the  said  dwelling  house  as  now  they  are  heing 
not  so  much  in  worke  as  hy  the  first  agreement  and  hargain 
he  was  to  performe  viz1  a  [«'%Me]  next  the  garden  there  and 
therefore  the  said  Compu  being  not  willing  to  pay  the  said 
Thomas  Symonds  the  said  whole  summe  of  80^  for  the  said 
low  huildings  there  grew  a  difference  betwecne  him  and  the 
said  Thomas  Symonds  about  the  worth  of  the  Carpentry  worke 
of  the  said  low  buildings  whereupon  the  said  pit  and  the  said 
Thomas  Symonds  agreed  and  did  submit  themselves  touching 
the  same  to  the  arbitrement  of  the  said  Nathaniell  Woodward 
John  Biggs  &  Will™  Tallmage  and  bound  themselves  each  to 
other  in  one  hundred  pounds  to  stand  to  their  award  in  the 
premises  \vch  the  said  pu  was  the  more  willing  to  doe  because  a 
sufficient  and  skillfull  carpenter  had  viewed  the  said  carpen 
try  worke  and  valued  the  worth  of  it  at  but  forty  six  pounds 
hoping  therefore  that  the  said  pu  should  have  had  some  good 
abatement  of  the  said  801  allowed  him  by  the  said  Arbitrators 
But  the  said  pit  saith  that  the  said  Matter  being  so  referred 
to  the  arbitrement  of  the  said  Arbitrators  as  aforesaid  they 

1  John  Cogan's  house  and  shop  was  settlers  of  Boston,  having  lived  in  the 

next  to  Mr.  John  Wilson's  land,  on  the  town  since  1630,  with  some  little  time 

corner  of  State  Street  and  Washington  spent   at    Ipswich.     He   was   disarmed 

Street.    Nathaniel  Woodward  here  men-  with  the  rest  in  1637.     Besides  living 

tioned  may  he  the  surveyor  and  mathe-  at  Ipswich,   he  spent   a    few    years   at 

matieian  of  that  name  (Mass.  Col.  Rcc.t  Dorchester,  and  also  at  Exeter  ;  but  was 

i.  323,  333),  hut  was  more  probably  his  a  member  of  the  Artillery  Company  in 

son,  of  whom  little  enough  is  to  be  found  Boston  in  1611. 
out.     John  Biggs  was  one  of  the  early 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

the  said  defend*8  all  of  them  unlawfully  conspired  together  to 
defraud  the  said  pi*  and  to  draw  from  him  for  the  said  worke 
a  greater  siimme  of  money  than  the  same  was  truly  worth 
and  thereupon  by  Conspiracy  as  aforesaid  the  said  Nathaniell 
Woodward  John  Biggs  and  Will™  Talmage  awarded  that  the 
said  pP  should  pay  unto  the  said  Thomas  Symonds  for  the 
said  Carpentry  workc  [200]  the  summe  of  140*  and  thereupon 
the  said  Thomas  Symonds  seeing  the  same  was  unjust  abated 
20*  and  the  sayd  pi*  payd  him  the  rest  being  1201  woh  he  was 
obliged  to  pay  as  aforesaid  although  the  said  worke  was  not 
ncare  worth  so  much  as  the  said  1201  As  by  certificate  un 
der  the  hands  of  other  indifferent  Carpenters  by  appointment 
of  Authority  certified  it  appeareth  to  the  dammage  of  the  pit 
501  and  thereupon  he  brings  his  suit. 

A  letter  of  Attorney  to  myselfc  to  follow  this  suit    [0  —  4d.~\ 

IN  THE  COURT  AT  BOSTON. 

JOHN  COGAN  of  Boston  merchant  pll  ^ 

MATIIEW  ALLEN1  of  Hertford  vpon   Con:  [in  trs  upon  y  case, 
gdn  dcf1  \ 

The  said  John  Cogan  complayneth  against  the  defend1  that 
whereas  the  said  pu  is  and  ever  hath  lived  from  his  nativity 
hitherunto  a  man  of  good  name  &  fame  and  a  faithful!  sub 
ject  to  his  Matic  and  gaincth  living  for  himselfe  &  his  family 
by  trading  <fc  merchandizing  all  wch  is  &  was  well  kuowne  to 
the  said  defend1  lie  the  said  defend1  in  malice  &  evill  will 
against  the  said  pP  going  about  utterly  to  destroy  &  takeaway 
his  the  said  plts  good  name  and  fame  and  consequently  the 
meancs  &  livelihood  of  the  said  plfc  &  his  family  having  con 
ference  in  England  this  last  summer  wth  certaine  merchants 
viz1  M!  Thomas  Harwood  &  James  Garnon  wth  whome  the  plain- 
tiffe  hath  formerly  had  &  now  hath  dealings  wth  concerning  the 

1  Matthew  Allyn  had  l>een   of  Cain-  scntativc  and  afterwards  assistant  from 

bridge,  was  representative  in  the  Gen-  1648  to  1667,  and  twice  commissioner 

eral  Court  in  March,  1636,  after  which  for  the  United  Colonies.    He  appears  in 

he  moved  to  Connecticut,  where  he  was  the  Note-book  later  (p.  226)  in  as  disa- 

held  in  high    estimation,   being   repre-  greeable  a  connection  us  the  present. 


300  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

said  pi*  did  utter  and  spake  out  then  of  the  said  pi*  these  false 
<fc  scandalous  words  viz*  Mr  Cogan  is  a  troublesome  man  and 
that  he  the  said  defend1  would  not  deale  wth  him  meaning  the 
said  pi*  for  halfe  the  cattcll  meaning  the  cattell  then  in  ques 
tion  being  worth  above  5001  and  further  that  the  said  pi*  was 
so  troublesome  that  every  Court  in  New  England  he  was  sued 
or  did  sue  or  words  to  that  effect  And  that  afterwards  in  this 
Country  even  in  time  of  the  last  generall  Cort  before  divers 
of  the  Magistrates  &  other  the  Kings  subjects  the  said  Mathcw 
Allen  falsely  &  maliciously  again  iterated  uttered  and  spake 
the  said  false  &  scandalous  words  or  to  that  effect  And 
whereas  afterwards  the  said  pit  offered  the  said  defend*  that 
if  he  would  publiquely  give  him  the  said  pi*  satisfaction  by 
acknowledging  the  said  defend*  spake  the  said  false  &  scan 
dalous  words  in  passion  and  not  upon  due  consideration  then 
the  said  pi*  would  passe  by  &  remit  the  same  the  sayd  defend* 
persisting  in  his  said  malice  affirmed  that  he  spake  nothing 
but  the  truth  &,  upon  consideration  [201]  so  that  the  pi*  is 
thereby  greatly  hurt  and  danmifyed  in  his  good  name  &  estate 
and  that  both  wth  his  Mtic8  subjects  in  England  and  also  in  this 
Colony  to  the  Pit8  dammagc  5001  &c.  [1—  Rec  of  M?  Cogan 
towards  these  last  writings  comming  to  9%  5s  in  money  the 
rest  to  be  pd  in  eomoditics.] 

A  letter  of  Attorney  for  Mf  Athcrton  Ilaugh  of  Boston  in 
new  E.  g  against  M?  Nath  Eaton  for  81  108  to  Mr.  Thomas 
Owen1,  and  an  affidavit  4  Sept  1689  Censure,  about  4  or  5 
weekcs  b  101  delivered  to  Mf  Eaton  before  hand.  [1 — G] 

Ricum  Parker  bound  to  Philip  Gibb  to  the  use  of  Thomas 
Ilarwood  &  James  Gammon  merchants  for  1541  —  38  —  10d 
ob  to  be  payd  in  Boston  11  Junii  px  dat'  11  Sept  ult.  double, 
[-6] 

John  Cogan  bound  to  Philip  Gibb  &c  in  19G*  199  2d.    [— G] 

1  Mr.    Thomas    Owen   was   nt    this     those  who  have  read  all  about  the  John 
time    either   in   Virginia   or   about    to     Stratton  business  above, 
travel  there,  as  may  be  remembered  by 


LECUFORD'S  M  A  MJ  SCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  301 

^Samuel  Ilaugh  of  Boston  in  New  England  aged  about  19 
ycarcs  sonnc  and  hcire  apparent  of  Athcrton  Ilaugh2  of  Bos 
ton  aforesaid  gent  sworne  saith  upon  his  oath  that  his  said 
ffathcr  having  heretofore  placed  him  this  deponent  a  scholler 
to  be  taught  by  his  late  master  Mf  Nathaniell  Eaton  at  Cam 
bridge  in  New  England  and  to  be  boarded  in  house  wth  him 
for  the  reward  of  sixteene  pounds  by  the  yeare  unto  the  said 
Natha :  Eaton  to  be  payd  quarterly  by  equall  portions  before 
hand  that  upon  or  about  the  last  day  of  July  Anno  Dili  one 
thousand  six  hundred  thirty  and  nyne  this  deponents  said 
father  upon  the  said  Nathaniell  Eatons  letter  hereunto  an 
nexed  to  his  said  father  directed  <fe  delivered  unto  the  said 
Nathaniell  Eaton  not  only  one  quarters  payment  being  foure 
pounds  as  he  himsclfc  told  this  deponent  but  sent  him  six 
pounds  more  by  the  hands  of  this  deponent  delivered  unto 
the  said  Nathaniell  Eaton  so  that  lie  had  in  all  upon  the  said 
letter  ten  pounds  and  this  depon*  saith  that  after  that  lie 
abode  as  a  scholler  &  boarder  wth  his  said  master  Nathaniell 
Eaton  about  foure  weekes  being  so  much  time  as  came  to  the 
sum  me  of  about  nyne  and  twenty  not  fully  thirty  shillings  to 
be  allowed  to  the  said  Nathaniell  Eaton  for  the  same  so  that 
he  owcth  unto  this  deponents  said  father  the  full  sum  me  of 
eight  pounds  and  ten  shillings  at  the  least,  the  remainder  of 
the  said  ten  pounds. 

3  Memorandum  it  is  agreed  betweene  the  parties  within 
written  that  if  the  Indian  cloathcs  within  mentioned  come 
to  be  sold  by  the  within-mentioned  Samuel  Hutchinson  and 
Thomas  Savage  their  executors  adm™  or  assiimcs  for  satisfac- 


1  Those  who  feel  an  interest  in  rom-  Cotton,  and  arrived  at  Boston  on  hoard 
paring  the  early  administration  of  Htr-  the  "Grifh'n,"  of  three  hundred  tons, 
vard  College  with  the  more  recent  will  S<-pt.    4,   1633,   in    company    with    Mr. 
find  it  worth    while    to    compare    here  Cotton,    Mr.   Hooker.   Mr.   Pierce,    and 
Savage's  note  to  Winthrop  (vol.  i.  p.  310).  Mr.   Hayries.     He  was  a  man  of  great 

2  Atherton    Hough,    the    father    of  consideration  in  the  town,  being  chosen 
Samuel,   was,    before,  he  came  to  New  assistant    in    1635,     and    many   times 
England,  mayor  of  Boston  in  Lincoln-  deputy  to  the  General  Court.     He  died 
shire.     He  left  that  town,  however,  in  in  1650. 

1633,  on  the  example  of  the  Rev.  John          8  See  ante,  p.  197. 


302  LECUFOHD'S  MAX  I/SCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

tion  of  the  moneys  within  mentioned  they  and  every  of  them 
shall  take  the  advise  of  Captaine  Ed  G  in  the  sd  sale  &  the 
surplusage  of  the  moneys  arising  for  the  same  cloathcs  sold 
beyond  the  within-mentioned  summe  of  1131  and  the  just  dam- 
mages  for  the  same  shall  belong  and  be  payd  unto  the  within 
mentioned  Thomas  Owen  his  executors  administrators  or 


[202]     Joseph   Armitage  J   bound   to  John   Pollord   to  pay 
71  11s  4d     12.  12.  1640  in  money  or  beaver  merchantable. 


Mf  Thomas  Owen  makes  a  Letter  of  Attorney  to  Captaine 
Edward  Giboncs  to  receive  <tc.  all  moneys  due  to  him  or  to 
be  due  from  any  person  or  persons  whatsoever.  [Is.] 

John  Chandler2  of  Boston  shoemaker  placcth  John  Chan 
dler  his  sonne  Apprentice  unto  Will™  Webb  of  Roxberry  baker 
his  executors  adm™  and  assigncs  for  seven  yeares  from  the 
29th  of  September  last  for  to  be  instructed  in  the  trade  of  the 
Baker  and  to  have  meatc  drink  &  clothes  washing  &  wringing 
and  in  the  end  of  the  terme  double  apparell  &  203  in  money? 
before  myself.  [1-6] 

M*  Thomas  Owen  of  Boston  merchant  &      , 

Afr  Tin  r  v>  i  doe  hire  of  Joseph 

M*  .John  Cogan  of  Boston  merchant 

Graft  on3  of  Salem  in  New  England  marrincr  his  Catch  called 

<^ 

the  Endevor  of  Salem  for  a  voyage  from  New  England  to 
Virginia  wth  three  men  a  pilott  and  a  boy  wth  tackling  well  fur- 
nisht  to  touch  at  such  ports  &  places  by  the  way  as  they  shall 
direct  and  in  Virginia  attend  upon  their  occasions  till  they 

1  Joseph  Armitage,  of  Lynn,  kept  the  Joseph  firul'ton,  of  Salem,  was  a 

first  inn  in  the  town,  says  Savage,  busy  merchant  and  sailor,  and  mention 

though  lie  A\as  a  tailor.  of  him  as  well  as  of  his  ketches  may  be 

-  John  CluindhT  Avas  allowed  a  towns-  found  in  Win  thro  p  (vol.  i.  )>.  -17,  and 

man  of  Boston  May  31,  1047.  Besides  vol.  ii.  p.  3:3'J).  Cotton  Mather  relates 

this  mention  of  him  there  is  nothing  in  his  Wonderful  Deliverances  the  story 

to  he  found  either  of  him  or  of  his  of  the  escape  of  Joseph  Graf  ton  in  his 

father,  though  several  of  the  same  name  ketch  the  "  Providence."  In  regard  to 

may  he  found  in  Savage.  the  "  Endeavor,"  see  p.  224,  post. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  KOTK-ltOOK.  803 

can  provide  a  ffreight  back*;  provided  it  b<3  before  April!  next. 
And  his  pay  to  be  401  ,p  inoneth  to  begin  from  the  seven 
teenth  day  of  December  instant  to  be  continued  till  his  vessell 
returne  it  be  discharged  of  her  freight.  [8-] 

Robert  Braddish  l  of  Cambridge  places  Hannah  his  daugh 
ter  apprentice  unto  Thomas  Hawkins  for  4  yearcs  from  this 
till  the  end  of  4  y  cares  from  25  March  next,  or  to  Hannah  his 
wife  meat  drinke  <fc  cloathcs  &  double  apparel  I  in  the  end. 


Richard  Sanford2  of  Boston  in  N  E  planter  doth  place 
his  sonnc  John  Sanford  apprentice  to  Joseph  Armitage  of 
Lynne  tayler  for  G  y  cares  from  this  day  14.  11.  1040.  Pyet  <t 
cloathing  and  at  the  end  of  the  terme  double  a])parell  it  5l  pro 
vided  that  the  youth  be  not  turned  over  wtbout  the  consent  of 
his  said  father  his  executors  or  ass*.  [1-0] 

Bayen.  Noughcha.  John  Saggamore  of  Merrimacke  28.  11. 
1640.' 

Articles  of  agreem*  betweene  Captaine  Sedgwicke  &  Mf 
Oflley  for  50  h.gs.  merchantable  been  vinegar  for  35s  a  h  & 
3(1  pl  of  the  caske.  to  be  rcdy  0.  1.  1041.  dat'  11.  28.  1040. 
[r  Is.  tid.  Mi"  Ofllcy  owes  0/7.  or  9<7.  for  the  Cap1  gave  me  3c7.] 

Mr!3  Richards  owes  me  for  a  peticon.     [2.  0.] 

Joseph  Armitage  of  Lynne  Inholdcr  bound  to  Henry  Symons 
merch1  in  33*  193  5d  to  be  payd  25.  1.  px  dat'  29.  7.  1040. 
[0.] 

3  Thomas  Joy  hath  an  account  against  M*  Robert  Kcayne 
for  Doing  the  Carpentry  worke  of  a  Barnc  at  M'  Keaynes 

1  Robert     Biadish.        Hannah     was  same  name)   who   kopt   an    inn  in  his 

daughter   of    Robert   Bradish  by  Mary  latter  days,   says  Savage. 

his  lirst  wife,  who  died  September,  1638.  2  "Richard  Sanford,   Boston,   164.0, 

The  Thomas  Hawkins  here  mentioned  laborer  .   .   .   had    possibly    sons    John 

was  most  probably  the  baker  (to  be  dis-  and  Robert  "  (Savage). 

tinguished   from   the   merchant   of  the  3  See  p.  162,  ante. 


364  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

house  at  Rnmncy  Marsh  <t  for  setting  up  &  finishing  the  same 
being  of  72  foot  in  length  &  26  foot  wide  &  10  foot  high  wth  2 
porches  each  of  13  foot  wide  one  way  <fc  12  another  for  wch  the 
said  Tho :  J  alleageth  he  ought  to  be  payd  so  much  as  the  Car 
pentry  worke  thereof  is  worth  and  he  saith  that  the  said  worke 
comes  unto  in  value  as  followcth  in  particulares  viz1  the  fram 
ing  of  the  said  barne  301  the  sawing  of  thereof  17l.  The  felling 
[203]  crosse  cutting  &  squaring  of  the  timber  15l  and  more 
the  rearing  up  of  the  barne  by  him  &  his  servants  71  the  clap- 
boarding  of  the  barne  ll1  5s  for  boards  41  16s  for  laying  of  600 
of  boards  over  the  porches  18s  for  making  of  4  pay  re  of  great 
doores  &  hanging  of  them  21  for  making  of  two  paire  of  stayres 
6s  for  making  of  4  little  doors  68  for  laying  the  barne  floare 
wtb  plancks  600  I1  10s  for  putting  on  gutters  upon  the  barne 
I1  108  for  ferryage  of  him  and  his  servants  2.  103  for  losse 
of  time  in  going  and  comming  4l  wch  commes  in  all  to  98ll9 
[30.  15.  15.  7  11-5  4-16  -18  2-0  -6  -6  1-10  1-10  2-10 
4-0  86-1.] 

M*  Thomas  Joy  this  day  gave  me  his  fowling  peece  upon 
condicon  that  I  should  hereafter  write  it  out  for  him  if  he  had 
occasion,  my  wife  being  present.  Formerly  I  writt  for  him  a 
paire  of  Indentures  betweenc  him  and  M?  Bellingham  3s  4d 
Another  writing  when  he  was  sicke  about  M*  Keaynes  account 
of  Wares  delivered  him  1s  6d  and  lastly  this  accon  drawne. 
I8  6d  12.  14.  1640. 

Write  to  Mr  Comfort  Starre  at  Duxbury  for  a  quarter  of  a 
pynt  of  henbane  seed  and  a  quarter  of  a  pound  of  hemlock 
seede  for  G.  <fcc. 

To  the  riylit  war11  the   Governor  Council   $  Assistants 

The  "humble  peticon  of  JAMES  PEMBERTON  PRUDENCE  WILKINSON 
widdowc  LEWIS  LULETT  GEORGE  FELT  GEORGE  KNOWE  JOHN 
GREENLAND  and  THOMAS  WHITTIMORE. 

The  petit-oners  shewe  that  whereas  they  having  bin  here 
tofore  inhabitants  in  Charlestownc  and  could  not  there  have 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  865 

accommodation  to  live  comfortably  they  were  forced  to  crave 
leave  of  the  Cort  to  build  and  plant  upon  Mystickc  sydc  wch 
they  did  by  the  leave  of  the  Court  af ores'1  and  have  expended 
a  great  partc  of  their  estates  therein,  Some  of  the  Townc 
endeavoring  to  straighten  the  petitioners  and  to  hinder  others 
from  comming  to  them  as  they  say  have  procured  divers  orders 
to  be  made  in  the  Townc  meeting  wch  to  the  petitioners  are 
very  prejudiciall  and  they  thinke  unreasonable  vi/fc  that  any 
of  the  petit-oners  shall  pay  for  every  swine  taken  in  the  marsh 
29  Gd  a  tyme  besides  the  dammage,  whereas  the  orders  for  the 
townc  are  but  to  yoake  &  ring  the  swine  or  els  to  pay  double 
dammage.  2ly  whereas  yor  pcticoners  cannot  live  to  pay  rates 
to  Towne.  <fc  Country  except  they  have  some  convenient  com 
mon  allotted  them  to  keepc  some  cattell  about  them,  their 
said  opponents  have  procured  a  townc  order  to  be  made  for 
the  making  of  a  common  fence  a  great  way  from  yor  pcticon 
ers  houses  wch  will  not  keepc  out  swine  and  yet  would  have 
the  pcticoners  contribute  and  afford  wood  to  the  said  com 
mon  fence  wch  yet  tends  to  their  undoing,  whereas  the  fence 
is  made  for  the  present  only  to  defend  the  Townesmens 
inedow  ground  wch  the  pcticoners  were  willing  to  joyne  wfh 
them  so  they  would  only  have  fenced  in  the  medow  and 
left  the  potic-oners  convenient  common.  These  things  yor 
petit-oners  humbly  desire  the  Court  in  their  wisdomc  to  con 
sider  and  to  order  .that  they  may  have  a  convenient  com 
mon  allowed  them  and  may  have  cquall  rcmcdic  in  their 
said  greivances  And  they  shall  as  their  duty  bindcs  them 
pray  for  yor  worpps.  [2  — G] 

To  the  right  ivor11  the  Governor  Oouncill  <r  Assistants. 

The  Answere  and  humble  pcticon  of  JOHN  ASKEW  of 
to  the,  mit  of  EDWARD  WiNSLOW1  of  Salixlniry  c 

This  defendant  saith  that  whereas  the  Complainant  de- 
mandcth  of  him  this  deP  15*  wch  he  passed  his  word  for  in  the 

1  Ed \vard  Winslow  was  at  this  time  scntative  from  that  place.  Savage 
commissioner  to  decide  small  cases  at  thinks  the  name  must,  have  been  Wens- 
Salisbury.  He  was  afterwards  repre-  ley,  but  I  can  hardly  believe  him  right. 


366  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

bchalfc  of  one  John  Upton,  the  case  standeth  thus,  this  defend4 
was  heretofore  retcyncd  h}7  one  Thomas  Bendight  of  Yarmouth 
in  the  County  of  Norf  to  serve  him  4  yeares,  who  not  over  into 
New  E  himselfe  made  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  the  Cornp"  giving 
him  power  to  imploy  this  defend'  in  the  said  Compl13  owne 
service,  Whereupon  this  defend1  did  serve  the  said  compl4  three 
quarters  of  a  yeare  in  wcb  time  this  defend1  did  earne  as  much 
money  for  the  said  com])!1  as  payd  for  this  defts  passage,  After 
wards  this  dcf4  desired  that  he  might  huy  his  time  and  not  be 
sould  to  any  other  as  the  said  Compu  had  done  most  of  his 
other  servants,  the  said  Compl4  therefore  demanded  of  this 
defend4  25*  for  the  remainder  of  his  said  time  being  8  yeares 
and  a  quarter  wch  this  del'1  was  then  willing  the  times  being 
then  quickc  £  money  plcntifull  to  give  him  rather  than  to  be 
so  sould,  wch  25*  the  said  defend1  hath  since  payd  the  pll  in 
money  howbeit  this  defend1  humbly  concciveth  it  was  more 
tban  in  equity  the  Compu  could  demand  of  him  and  was  [204] 
10*  more  than  he  sould  any  of  his  other  servants  for  yet  so  it 
might  please  yor  worpps  that  the  said  Compl4  having  made  this 
defend4  price  of  251  for  his  time  as  aforesaid  took  a  moncths 
time  to  consider  of  the  bargain  before  he  would  consider  it  in 
\vch  lime  the  said  John  Upton  another  servant  of  the  Complts 
likewise  desired  to  huy  his  time  wch  was  valued  by  the  Compl* 
at  15*  And  when  the  said  moncth  was  expired  the  said  pi4 
would  not  take  the  said  25*  of  this  defend4  unlesse  he  would 
passe  his  word  for  15l  for  the  said  John  Upton  wch  to  pur 
chase  his  liberty  this  deft  ycilded  to  doe  Now  this  dcfendt 
shcwcth  that  he  having  payd  the  Cornpl4  15*  the  last  summer 
and  10l  the  ycarc  before  the  same  hath  caused  yor  peticoner  to 
run  into  divers  debts  and  yet  now  the  said  Compl4  demands 
the  said  15l  of  yor  peticoner  for  the  said  John  Upton  wch  this 
pctieoncr  is  no  way  able  to  pay  being  much  indebted  and  wch 
in  equity  he  allcageth  he  is  not  bound  to  pay  Yor  peticoner 
humbly  praycth  yor  worpps  in  tender  considcracon  of  the  prem 
ises  to  sett  down  an  order  for  the  discharge  of  yor  peticoner 
concerning  the  said  15*  and  this  peticoner  leaveth  it  to  yor 
grave  consideration  whether  you  will  please  to  order  the  said 
Comp14  to  pay  this  peticoner  backe  any  parte  of  the  said  25* 


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307 


And  this  peticonor  humbly  ])rayeth  tliat  the  said  pit  may  he 
injoyned  to  stand  to  the  order  of  this  Cort  in  the  premises  as 
this  defend1  humbly  suhmitteth  himself  also  to  the  award  & 
iudgment  of  the  Court  &  he  shall  as  he  is  in  duty  hound  pray 
for  yor  worp9. 

To  the  right  wor11  the  Grovnor  Council  <f  ASK" 

T7ie    Answere   peticon   and   account   of    BARNABAS    DAVIS   of 
Charles  Towne  to  the  demands  of  M*  JOHN  WOODCOCKE. 

Barnabas  Davis l  shcweth  that  about  2  ycarcs  before  the 
Pequid  wnrre  lie  was  reteyned  by  M.r  Will"1  Woodtiockc  to 
come  over  into  New  England  to  lookc  to  his  affaires  heere  that 
he  landed  at  Boston  and  after  that  wthin  ten  daycs  went  on  foot 
to  Connceticott  where  Francis  Stiles  was  to  build  a  house  for 
Mr  Woodcocko  &  impale  him  400  acres  of  ground  that  this 
was  in  the  beginning  of  the  plantation  there  whereby  this 
Accountant  indurcd  much  hardship  When  this  accountant 
come  there  the  said  Stiles  was  gone  for  England  having  before 


1  Of  Barnabas  Davis,  whose  suit 
against  John  Woodcockc  occupies  many 
pages  in  the  Note-book,  nothing  seems 
to  be  known  except  that  he  came  in 
the  "  Blessjng  "  in  1G36  to  Charlestown, 
and  that  ho  afterwards  was  a  tallow- 
chandler  by  trade.  Of  the  Woodcoekes 
nothing  can  be  found  in  New  England, — 
naturally  enough,  as  it  does  not  directly 
appear  that  they  were  ever  there.  There 
was  a  John  Woodcocke  of  Springfield 
in  1G38,  but  I  do  not  believe  him  to 
be  the  one  here  mentioned.  Francis 
Stiles  and  Edward  Holyoke  (or  Hol- 
lioke  here  spelled)  are,  however,  easily 
identified,  and  much  of  their  history  is 
known.  Stiles  came  to  Connecticut  very 
early,  was  at  Windsor  in  1636,  and  after 
wards  lived  perhaps  at  Say  brook  for 
some  time,  but  died  at  Windsor  in  1653 
or  thereabouts.  He  was  engaged  in 
Connecticut,  among  other  things  in 
work  about  the  estate  of  Sir  Richard 


Saltonstall  with  Robert  Saltonstall.  the 
younger  son  of  Sir  Richard.  His  man 
agement  could  not  have  been  very  effi 
cient,  for  he  involved  the  Saltonstalls  in 
much  financial  inconvenience.  Edward 
Holyoke  owned  land  in  many  towns, 
but  lived  chiefly  at  Rumney  Marsh.  He 
was  frequently  representative  to  the 
General  Court,  — often,  Savage  thinks, 
from  towns  where  he  only  held  property. 
His  family  lived  in  Springfield  after 
wards  ;  and  from  the  fact  that  John 
Woodcocke  is  noted  in  Springfield  in 
1638,  I  should  not  think  it  improbable 
that  Holyoko  lived  there,  for  a  time. 
He  died  in  1660. 

The  whole  case  admits  of  very  little 
illustration.  The  best  thing  for  the 
reader  to  do  (if  he  be  in  any  way  inter 
ested),  is  to  refer  to  an  opinion  delivered 
by  Lech  ford  which  may  be  found  in  the 
Note-book,  p.  216. 


368  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

built  himself  a  sufficient  house  at  Connecticott  Then  by 
M*  Hookers  advise  this  Accountant  returned  into  England 
againe  wth  letters  from  Mr  Hooker  both  to  my  Lord  Say  &  to 
M.r  Woodcockc  of  the  estate  of  Mr  Woodcockes  affairs  to  the 
intent  Stiles  might  be  dealt  withall  in  England  that  this  ac 
countant  as  soone  as  he  could  get  shipping  tooke  his  voyage 
backe  into  England  wth  MT  Bable  and  landed  at  Portsmouth 
and  thence  he  rode  to  London  and  delivered  his  letters 
Whereupon  Francis  Styles  was  againe  dealt  wth  to  goe  on 
with  M?  Woodcockes  plantation  there  and  sold  him  his  said 
house  bearing  him  in  hand  that  the  Towne  would  accommo 
date  Mf  Woodcocke  wth  400  acres  of  land  thereunto  The  said 
Styles  wthin  a  moneth  after  came  away  againe  for  N  E  and  M* 
Woodcocke  reteyned  this  accountant  still  to  goe  in  the  next 
ship  after  him  to  see  the  said  Styles  to  performe  the  worke  and 
this  accountant  was  but  to  goe  from  London. to  his  wife  at 
Teuxbury  and  to  returne  againe  to  London  to  take  shipping  Avch 
this  accountant  did  and  came  into  New  England  the  second 
time  and  landed  at  Boston  in  the  ycare  of  the  Pequid  warres 
and  wthin  ten  dayes  after  went  in  a  pinnace  to  Connecticott  to 
follow  Mf  Woodcockes  businesse  and  delivered  my  Lord  Says 
letter  and  Mf  Woodcockes  letter  to  Mr  Hooker  who  was 
pleased  to  goe  wth  this  accountant  from  Mr  Hookers  house  to 
the  sayd  Styles  house  being  6  myles  about  treaty  wtb  the  said 
Styles  when  it  was  dangerous  travelling  in  regard  of  the 
Pequids  that  M'  Warham  and  divers  others  wth  M!  Hooker 
treating  the  cause  determined  that  Styles  had  dealt  ill  wth 
Ml  Woodcocke  in  not  procuring  the  400  acres'  of  land  to  be 
layd  to  the  said  house  &  impaling  it  as  he  nndertooke  where 
upon  this  accountant  was  by  Mf  Hookers  dircccon  to  returne 
wth  his  letters  thereof  into  England  againe  to  certify  my  Lord 
Say  and  M'  Woodcocke  of  Styles  miscarriage  of  the  businesse 
but  in  the  mcanc  while  before  this  Accountant  could  get  ship 
ping  he  was  taken  a  Souldier  against  the  Pequids  and  before 
he  could  thence  returne  &  get  shipping  in  the  sea  ncare  upon 
a  ycare  was  spent  from  his  last  landing  That  he  returned  wth 
Mr  Cutler  at  the  time  M'  Vane  returned  landed  at  Deale  and 
thence  went  to  London  on  footc  and  delivered  the  letters  to 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  369 

MF  Woodcocke  £  a  letter  to  my  Lord  Say  [205]  That  this 
accountant  was  afterwards  rcteyned  by  the  said  M'  Woodcocke 
to  ride  from  Teuxbury  to  London  nine  or  ten  limes  and  from 
London  into  Essex  about  twelve  times  and  from  London  to 
Dunstablc  &  from  London  to  Bristoll  and  after  to  and  fro 
upon  liis  occasions  and  did  reteyne  this  accountant  from  his 
last  landing  in  his  service  in  England  ncare  a  yearc  &  three 
quarters.  That  the  said  accountant  purposing  at  his  first 
voyage  aforesaid  to  come  for  New  E  wth  his  wife  and  family 
as  a  planter  he  brought  up  his  wife  <v  children  &  goods  to 
London  to  that  purpose  but  M?  Woodcocke  prevayled-  wth  his 
wife  to  stay  in  England  to  iheend  this  accountant  might  servo 
him  only  in  this  busines  aforesaid  and  that  this  accountant 
should  in  the  meane  time  leave  his  goods  as  bedding  brassc  &, 
pewter  to  the  value  of  201  wth  J\l!  Woodcocke  to  kccpc  till  his 
busincssc  was  settled  &  then  this  accountant  to  fetch  his  wife 
&  family  tv.  live  upon  Mr  Woodcockes  plantation  to  improve 
the  same  for  him.  That  Mr  Woodcocke  made  use  of  this  ac 
countants  goods  and  wore  out  a  brasse  kettle  &  pott  to  holes 
so  that  the  said  goods  were  51  the  worse.  That  the  said  Mr 
Woodcocke  never  yet  gave  this  accountant  any  recompense 
for  his  sayd  travell  &  paynes  but  as  in  the  account  annexed  is 
spccifyed  and  'afterwards  the  said  Mr  Woodcocke  deceased 
Whereupon  Mr  John  Woodcocke  brother  of  the  said  deceased 
intreated  Mr  Robert  Bridges  of  Anster  to  send  for  this  ac 
countant  to  Teuxbury  to  treat  wth  him  about  M?  Will™  Wood 
cockes  estate  in  N  E.  &  thereupon  come  to  Anster  and 
informed  M*  Bridges  of  the  said  estate  and  this  accounts 
cxpenccs  &  his  acts  &  paincs  thereabouts  that  the  said  M^ 
Bridges  might  thereof  certify  the  said  John  Woodcocke  he 
did  also  reteyne  this  accountant  to  come  over  againo  into 
New  England  about  the  said  estate  and  to  recover  the  same 
against  the  said  Stiles  for  woh  this  accountant  was  to  have  201. 
That  he  landed  here  at  Boston  in  June  1G89  and  thereupon 
went  to  Connec*  and  there  did  recover  of  the  said  Styles  a 
judgment  of  3001  wch  lyes  in  Mr  Hopkins  hand  in  Connecticott 
and  tooke  into  his  custody  the  cattell  and  sold  them  by  advise 
of  M?  Hollioke  &  M!  Bridges  of  Lynne  for  wch  cattell  this 

24 


370  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

accountant  received  1501  and  since  that  time  he  hath  bought 
as  many  cattell  as  came  to  110*.  That  this  accountant  is  now 
reteyned  &  still  intangled  wth  this  imployment  &  estate  &  can 
not  be  lawfully  discharged  thereof  whereby  he  hath  lost  divers 
advantages  for  himself  having  yet  no  land  to  plant  of  his  owne 
for  himselfe  &  his  wife  &  4  children  &  family  whereby  he  is 
damnifyed  at  least  501  Therefore  he  requireth  allowance  of 
his  said  accounts  recompense  of  his  dammages  aforesaid  &  a 
sufficient  discharge  from  Mri3  Washburne  Administratrix  of 
the  goods  &  chattells  of  the  said  Will™  Woodcocke  and  from 
the  said -John  Woodcocke  both  for  himselfe  &  M'  Hopkins  who 
is  interest  in  this  matter  only  by  this  accountants  meanes  & 
procurement. 

The  account  about  the  cattell. 

Imprimis  I  received  for  the  cattell  as  aforesaid  abont 

August  1639 1501 


Itm  I  then  presently  bought  ten  head  of  young  cattell 
of  Mf  Luxford  for 1051 

Itm  I  payd  to  Captaine  Sedgwicke  in  parting  the 
cattell 0011 

Itm  for  summering  the  said  cattell  to  James  Luxford, 

as  I  verily  believe 0051 

Itm  for  wintering  them  to  Mr.  Winthrop  &  looking 

unto  them 151 

Itm  for  blooding  &  drenching  them  to  James  Lux- 
ford  068 

Itm  payd  for  keeping  twenty  sheepe  of  M^  Willm 

Woodcockes  to  James  Luxford 10  0  0 

Itm  charges  of  suits  against  Lawthrop  &  his  wife  for 
a  debt  of  Mr  Will™  Woodcockes 070 

Itm  paul  to  one  M*  Gridley  for  a  debt  of  M*  Will™ 
Woodcocke.  1  10  0 


138    04      2 

1501 

138    04      2 


11    15    10 


LECHFORD'S   MAXUSCIUTT  NOTE-BOOK.  P>71 

So  vesteth  in  my  hand  upon  this  account      ....         11    15    10 

Itin  I  exchanged  the  sayd  young  cattell  in  Aprill  last 
in  this  manner  8  of  them  for  4  oxen  and  a  cart  val 
ued  at 100* 

Itm  the  other  two  beasts  I  exchanged  for  two  other 
valued  at 301 

[206]  Itm  earned  \vth  these  oxen  by  plowing  &  cart 
ing  20  dayes Ill  0  0 

Itm  for  carrying  wood  &  timber  for  myselfe  &  others 

w<h  them  27  loads 410 

Itm  for  carrying  five  loads  of  hay  for  2  neighbors  .     .         166 

Itm  for  carrying  8  loads  of  corne 2       0       0 


145      3       6 

To  be  deducted  about  the  oxen  £  cart. 

Imprimis  for  the  Country  rates  upon  the  oxen  ...          1     10 
Itm  for  summering  the  said  oxen  and  to  the  keepers  .         2       0 

Itm  they  cost  in  wintering  allready 12       0 

Itm  two  bushells  of  cornc  they  have  eaten      ....  8 

Itm  32  bushells  of  corne  \vch  they  did  dammage  into 

Cambridge  mens  come 6       8       0 

It'"  for  2  men  and  a  boy  to  goo.  wth  the  oxen  the  said 
20  dayes  at  2s  a  day  for  the  men    a  peece   and  8a  a 

day  for  the  boy 4    13       4 

It'"  for  a  man  &  a  boy  to  goe  wth  the  oxen  at  the  rate 
of  2"  a  day  for  the  value  of  10  dayes  about  the  wood 

&  timber    ". 1 1    12       0 

It™  for  a  man  &  a  boy  to  goe  wth  the  oxen  at  the  rate 

of  2*  8d  a  day  for  4  dayes  about  the  corne       ...  10       8 

It"1  for  a  man  &  a  boy  to  goe  wth  the  oxen  at  the  rate  of 
ltm   for  expences  about  this  account   in   attendance 
heere  at  this  Court  and  what  els  it  may  cost  me  if 
I  should  be  put  to  prove  every  particulare  wch  I 
hope  I  can  doe.     As  the  Court  shall  assesse. 

[3s.  4(7.     A  bushcll  of  rye  or  wheat  or  malt.] 

Richard  Chad  well l  shewcth  that  he  was  absent  this   day 
when  verdict  was  given  against  him  not  out  of  any  contempt 

1   Richard  Chndwell  and  Thomas  his  when  compared  with  another  (posf,  p. 

brother  are   both   noted  by  Savage,  —  220),  wherein  Richard  Chadwell  brings 

with  no  hint,  however,  as  to  their  rela-  suit  against  John  Sampson  and  Harry 

tionship.    John  Sampson  is  not  even  no-  Bennet,  a  house  carpenter, 
ticed.     This  paragraph  will  seem  clearer 


372  LECllFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

of  the  Court  but  by  being  deteyncd  at  the  other  side  of  the 
water  at  Charlcstowne  whether  he  went  to  lodge.  And  where 
as  there  is  201  allowed  against  him  in  the  verdict  for  not  teach 
ing  John  Sampson  the  trade  of  a  shipwright  This  peticoner 
alleagcth  that  he  hath  endeavored  both  by  himselfe  and  his 
brother  Thomas  Chadwell  to  instruct  the  said  Sampson  in  that 
trade  both  at  home  &  abroad  wch  the  peticoner  could  have 
made  proofe  of  if  that  point  had  bin  insisted  upon  to  this  peti- 
coiiers  understanding  before  the  Jury  went  together  Touching 
the  not  moving  of  the  barke  if  this  peticoner  had  knowne  that 
he  should  now  have  bin  questioned  he  could  have  proved 
Sampson  faulty  therein  by  2  witnesses  but  seeing  he  was  a  boy 
under  age  as  he  saith  if  he  riske  that  appeare  the  peticoner 
willingly  [illegible]  to  the  cancelling  of  that  51  bill  This  petico 
ner  willingly  alloweth  foure  pounds  for  3  quarters  of  a  yearcs 
service  wch  this  peticoner  was  mistaken  in  thraugh  Sampsons 
ownc  misinformation  and  will  provide  him  tooles  &  40s  towards 
cloathcs  in  these  things  he  desireth  investigation  &  if  it  please 
the  Curt.  [2s.] 

BARNABAS  DAVIS. 

Touching  the  2  servants  they  cost  betweene  us .     .     .       221    10s     0 
I  had  for  one  of  them  of  Mr.  Long  an  house  valued      .       20 
The  other  servant  being  married  having  a  wife  &  3 

children  hath  bin  a  burden  to  me  and  no  profit. 

So  granting  that  I  am  to  allow  Mr.  Woodcock  halfe 

the  value  of  the  house  aforesaid 101 

M^  Woodcocke  is  to  allow  fifty  shillings  to  me  for  his 

halfe  of  the  five  pounds  due  to  M1:  Hoggs  estate.     .         2     10 
And  also  M*  Woodcocke  is  to  beare  halfe  charges  for 

Edward  Wynne  wch  may  come  for  ought  I  knowe  to       10 

And  therefore  this  accountant  conceivcth  that  M*  Woodcocke 
is  rather  accountable  to  me  than  1  to  him. 

[207]  Ji-rcmy  Could  of  .Rode  Island  yeoman  &  Will111 
Jeffreys  of  Weymouth  in  New  England  gent  to  be  bound  to 
Henry  Waltham  gent  in  30l.  The  condicon  that  the  said  Jer- 
emie  shall  on  or  before  the  24th  of  August  next  assure  &  con 
vey  a  sufficient  and  lawful  estate  unto  the  said  Henry  Waltham 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  373 

his  heires  or  assigncs  of  and  in  three  acres  of  march  inedow 
lying  in  Weymouth  aforesaid  now  [illegible]  other  things  mort 
gaged  unto  Joseph  Holloway.  [Is.] 

Samuell  Milles  of  Weymouth  in  New  England  aired  about 
21  yeares  servant  of  MT  Henry  Waltham  sworne  saith  upon  his 
oath  tliat  about  two  moneths  since  Morgan  Craver  singing  in 
the  mill  house  by  the  fire  one  of  Situate  came  into  the  said 
house  What  he  said  to  Morgan  this  deponent  did  not  heare  but 
he  heard  Morgan  answer  that  he  did  not  sing  so  loude  but  we 
may  heare  the  clap  of  the  mill.  Whereupon  M1"!8  Richards 
came  forth  and  said  that  She  heretofore  asked  money  of  the 
said  Mr  Waltl\am  and  he  bad  her  hold  her  peace  that  he  might 
heare  the  clap  of  the  mill  and  then  said  to  Morgan  this  them 
hast  learned  of  thy  master  that  old  Waltham  that  wicked  man 
he  that  never  feared  God  nor  never  will.  And  Morgan  speaking 
something  what  in  particularc  this  deponent  cannot  remember 
the  said  Mr!3  Richards  in  the  hearing  of  John  Gill1  bid  him 
hold  his  peace  or  els  she  would  make  John  Gill  bast  him  by 
&•  by  and  thereupon  as  the  said  Morgan  talked  further  to  her 
the  said  John  Gill  wth  his  left  hand  strncke  the  said  Morgan 
upon  his  hcael.  and  said  hold  yor  tounge.  And  at  another  time 
upon  another  occasion  what  in  particulare  this  deponent  can 
not  remember  he  saith  he  heard  the  said  Mri.8  Richards  speakc 
in  the  mill  roome  he  standing  by  the  trough  there  the  like 
rcproachfull  words  against  his  said  MT  that  is  to  sav  that  old 
Waltham  that  wicked  man  he  that  never  feared  God  nor  never 
will. 

A  peticon  for  John  Morecroft.2  [1.9.] 

1  John  Gill  i<?  somewhat  interesting  owners  of  the  mill  at  ^Veymouth  were 
here,  because  a  man  of  his  name  bought  not  everything  that  eould  be  wished, 
(in  107'))  the  mill  of  Israel  Rtoughton  in  2  This  petition,  I  imagine,  was  toon- 
Dorchester  (now  Milton).  I  am  nnablc,  treat  the  Court  to  grant  some  abate- 
however,  to  aflinn  confidently  that  he  was  ment  of  the.  line  of  2(rt  which  had  been 
the  same,  man  who  struck  Morgan  C'ra-  imposed  upon  John  Morecroft  by  the 
ver  upon  his  head  and  bade  him  hold  Court  some,  days  before  this  "  for  his 
his  tongue.  It  would  seem  from  this  unfit  carriage."  I  cannot  find  that  it 
as  though  tho  relations  between  the  was  ever  granted. 


374          LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Robert  Hcmpenstall  of  Boston  in  New  England  sonne  of 
Thomas  Hempcnstall  late  of  Southold  in  the  County  of  Suffolk 
marriner  deceased  doth  remise  &  release  unto  Willm  Woolner 
of  Westell  in  the  said  County  yeoman  one  house  or  tenement 
wth  the  appurtenances  in  Southold  aforesaid  wch  Henry  liar- 
wood  my  father  in  law  lately  purchased  for  him  &  myselfc 
and  my  Sister  Elizabeth  of  Robert  Anderson  and  Nicholas 
Anderson  his  sonne  wch  promise  for  further  assurance  &c  dat' 
11.  1.  1G40. 

Robert  Thomson  of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  letts 
unto  Joseph  Armitage  of  Lynne  in  N  England  one  lighter  of 
the  burden  of  twenty  tunnes  or  thereabouts  for  161  a  yeare 
from  the  first  of  the  first  moneth  1640  or  1641." and  to  deliver 
the  boate  in  rcpairc  as  good  as  now  it  is  in. 

To  all  Christian  People  unto  whome  these  presents  shall 
come  I  Robert  Hempenstall l  of  Boston  in  New  England 
Shipwright  sonne  of  Thomas  Hempenstall  late  of  Southold  in 
the  County  of  Suffolke  marriner  deceased  send  greeting  &c 
Knowe  yec  that  I  the  said  Robert  II.  doe  by  these  presents 
remise  release  &  absolutely  for  me  &  my  heires  quittclaime 
unto  Will1"  Woolner  of  Westell  in  the  said  County  of  Suffolke 
yeoman  all  the  right  title  &  claime  wch  I  had  have  or  hereafter 
any  wayes  may  have  of  &  in  one  house  or  tenement  wth  the 
appurtenances  by  what  name  or  names  soever  it  be  called 
lying  &  being  in  Southold  aforesaid  wch  Henry  Harwood  my 
father  iu  law  lately  purchased  to  him  self  e  myselfe  and  my 
Sister  Elizabeth  Hempenstall  of  and  from  Robert  Anderson 
and  Nicholas  Anderson.  [2s.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  first  day  of  the  first  moneth  Anno 
Pni  1641  or  1640  Betweene  2  Robert  Thomson  of  Boston  in 

1  The  name  is  not  found  in  Savage,  —  Edward  Bendall  to  Thomas  Hawkins, 
at  least  not  in  this  form.  1650,  a  lot  of  land  is  spoken  of  as  having 

2  Robert  Thompson  is  not  to  be  met  belonged  to  Mr.  Robert  Thompson  (Book 
with  in  Savage,  and  the  only  mention  of  of  Possessions,  G,  124).      Its  position  is 
him  found  by  me  is  in  the  Book  of  Posses-  not  defined,   but  it   was  near   the  lots 
siuns,  whore   in    a   deed   of  land  from  of  Nehemiah  Bourne,  Thomas  Hawkins, 


LECHFORD'S   ^f  ANl'SCRirT  NOTE-HOOK.  375 

N  E  merchant  of  the  one  parte  And  Joseph  Armitage  of 
Lynnc  in  N  E  Inholder  of  the  other  parte  wittncsseth  that  the 
said  Robert  Thompson  for  good  Consideration  him  thereunto 
moving  doth  hereby  demise  and  to  farme  lett  unto  the  said 
Joseph  Armitage  one  Lighter  hoate  of  the  burden  of  twenty 
tunnes  or  thereabouts  wth  the  tackling  and  appurtenances 
[208]  thereunto  belonging  To  have  and  to  hold  the  sayd 
lighter  boatc  and  all  and  singulare  the  premises  wth  the  ap 
purtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said  Joseph  Armitage  his 
executors  administrators  or  assignes  from  the  day  of  the  date 
of  these  presents  for  and  during  the  tcrmc  of  one  whole  yeare 
thenceforth  next  ensuing  fully  to  be  compleat  &  ended  ycild- 
ing  &  paying  therefore  at  the  end  of  the  said  tcnne  unto  the 
said  Robert  Thomson  his  executors  administrators  and  as- 
signcs  the  full  &  whole  rent  &  summc  of  sixteene  pounds  of 
lawfull  money  of  England  And  the  said  Joseph  Armitage 
doth  for  himsclfe  his  executors  administrators  &  assignes  cov 
enant  promise  &  grant  to  and  wth  the  said  Robert  Thomson 
his  executors  administrators  and  assignes  by  these  presents 
that  he  the  said  Joseph  Armitage  his  executors  administra 
tors  and  assignes  shall  &  will  well  and  sufficiently  repaire 
&  keepe  the  said  Lighter  boatc  aforesaid  in  good  repaire 
from  time  to  time  as  often  as  need  shall  require  during 
the  said  tonne  and  the  same  so  well  and  sufficiently  re 
paired  and  kept  shall  in  the  end  of  the  said  terme  deliver 
and  yeild  up  together  wth  such  tackling  and  furniture  for 
the  said  lighter  hoate -as  in  a  note  under  these  presents  are 
expressed  or  others  of  the  same  sortc  as  good  in  quality 
as  they  are  now  at  this  present  time  and  shall  also  well 
and  truly  pay  the  said  rent  unto  the  said  Robert  Thomson 
his  executors  administrators  &  assignes  In  witncsse  <fec. 
[2-6] 
At  the  petition  of  the  said  R  T  his  exec,  ad  :  &  asss. 

and  Edward  Bondall,  all  men  deriving  ho  was  a  seaman  without  nny  very  fixed 

their  livelihood  more  or  less  from  the  sea;  place  of  abode,  who  managed  to  steer 

so  that  this  notice  of  Robert  Thompson  clear  of  the  books  of  record  from  which 

in  Leohford,  combined  with  lack  of  no-  we  fondly  hope  to  make  the  acquaint- 

tice  elsewhere,  would  seem  to  show  that  ancc  of  our  ancestors. 


376  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

To  all  Christian  people  unto  \vhome  these  presents  shall 
come  I  George  Crispe  1  of  Plimouth  in  New  England  husband 
man  send  greeting  <fcc  Knowe  yee  that  I  doe  hereby  consti 
tute  and  ordaine  myPearc  brother  Robert  Crispe  of  South  warke 
in  the  County  of  Surrey  inarrincr  my  true  and  lawfull  Attor 
ney  for  me  and  in  my  name  lawfully  to  enter  into  and  upon 
all  that  my  parte  and  portion  of  foure  acres  of  garden  ground 
laud  medow  or  pasture  or  whatsoever  it  be  wth  the  appurte 
nances  lying  and  being  in  the  parishe  of  Word  neare  Sand 
wich  in  the  County  of  Kent  given  and  bequeathed  and  of  right 
belonging  unto  me  my  heires  and  assignes  forever  by  the  last 
will  and  testament  of  my  uncle  George  Crispe  late  of  Black- 
wall  in  the  parish  of  Stibenhcath  in  the  County  of  Midct  Ship 
wright  deceased  as  in  and  by  the  said  last  will  and  testament 
more  at  large  it  doth  and  may  appeare  wch  said  foure  acres 
now  are  or  lately  were  in  the  occupation  or  possession  of  John 
Firmor  of  Sandwich  abovesaid  Taylor  and  Fermi n  Johnson  of 
Word  aforesaid  gardiner  their  or  one  of  their  assignee  or  as 
signes.  And  furthermore  I  doc  hereby  authorize  and  appoint 
my  said  attorney  for  me  <fe  in  my  name  to  grant  bargaine  and 
sell  all  my  right  title  &  interest  in  the  premises  to  any  person 
or  persons  whomsoever  that  will  purchase  the  same  for  any 
reasonable  summe  or  summcs  of  money  so  it  be  not  under  4-J* 
and  the  same  to  receive  &  recover  to  my  use  and  returne  unto 
me  as  1  shall  by  my  letters  of  advise  appoint.  And  to  that 
end  &  purpose  of  &  for  me  &  in  my  name  to  make  scale  <fe 
deliver  any  reasonable  act  or  acts  deed  or  deeds  bring  <fc  per- 
forrne  wth  effect  any  action  or  suit  and  to  doc  every  other 
lawfull  thing  requisite  in  and  about  the  premises  as  fully 
powerfully  and  effectually  as  1  my  [209]  selfe  in  proper  per 
son  might  or  could  doe  Ratefying  confirming  &  allowing  all 
and  whatsoever  my  said  Attorney  shall  lawfully  doc  or  cause 
to  be  done  in  the  premises  In  witnessc  £c.  1.  19.  1G40.  10 
Car.  [2-6] 

George  Druell  of  London  grocer  for  and  in  the  behalf e  of 
Edward  Payne  of  Wapping  in  the  County  of  Mid1  mariner  sells 

George  Crispe  is  not  found  in  Savage. 


LECIIFORD^S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  377 

to  Will™  Phillips1  of  Gharlcstownc  in  New  England  butcher 
all  those  five  acres  of  land  lying  upon  Wormwood  Point  on 
Mistickc  sydc  in  Charlcstowne  precincts  for  51  for  ever.  [Is.] 

Robert  Shutc2  of  Wiunegansett  in  New  England  planter 
Walter  Merchant  late  of  Bristoll  haberdasher  <t  Mathew 
Norman  of  Peinmaquid  als  AUUvorth  towne  in  New  England 
planter  to  be  bound  to  the  said  Robert  Shutc  in  501  conditioned 
to  save  him  harmlessc  for  the  payment  of  a  debt  of  about  -5* 
due  to  the  said  Walter  Merchant  for  commodities  heretofore 
bought  of  him  in  Bristoll  And  a  Release.  [1 — 0] 

Thomas  Foster  of  Boston  in  New  England  gunner  of  the 
Castle  in  Castle  Island  and  Abigail  his  wife  daughter  of 
Mathew  Wimes  late  of  Ipswich  in  the  County  of  Suffolk 
[illegible']  deceased  makes  a  Ler  of  Attorney  unto  George 
Strange  gent  lawfully  to  enter  into  £  upon  all  lands  tene 
ments  and  hereditaments  belonging  to  them  or  either  of  them 
in  Ipswich  aforesaid  by  vcrtue  of  tbe  last  will  &  testament  of 
the  said  Mathew  Wimcs  or  otherwise  &  to  .recover  the  same 
<fe  make  sale  of  it  and  to  deliver  all  save  50*  nnto  Robert 
Wimes  of  Ipswich  aforesaid  Glacier,  wch  50*  is  to  be  imployed 
as  I  shall  direct  M'  Stranges  reasonable  charges  &  recompence 
being  deducted,  [vacat] 

Thomas  Wallis3  of  Plimouth  in  N  E  merchant  assigncs  to 
Henry  Watts  of  blacke  Poynt  in  N  E  in  the  Province  of 

1  "William  Phillips  is  noted  in  Wy-  a  transaction  far  less  creditable  to  him 
man  as  an  innholder  of  Charlcstown  who  than  the  present  (post,  \>.   219).     Mat- 
moved  away  to  the  Eastward.    Reference  thew     Norman     does    not     appear    in 
is  also  there  made  to  this  purchase  of  Savngft. 

land,  though  what  was  purchased  is  not  8  Mr.  Thomas  Wallis  is  among  the 
stated,  nor  what  was  paid  lor  it.  Phil-  list  of  those  taking  the  freeman's  oath, 
lips  lived  afterwards  in  Saco,  where  he  May  10,  1643  ;  but  otlierwi.se  there  is  no 
behaved  with  much  courage  in  the  In-  mention  of  him.  Henry  Watts  is  noted 
dian  wars,  as  may  be  read  in  Savage  ;  in  Savage  at  different  points  in  the 
he  came  back,  however,  to  Boston,  and  Province  of  Maine.  He  became  free- 
there  died.  man  of  Massachusetts  in  1059,  and  was 

2  Itobert    Shnte   lived  at   Pemaqnid  then  chosen  constable.     He  was  repre- 
later,    with    his   brother    Kichard.     He  sentative  in  1660  and  1661,  after  which 
is  next  mentioned  in  the  Note-look  in  little  is  known  of  him. 


378  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Maine  {fishmonger  in  debts  60*  and  is  to  pay  him  in  money  or 
commodities  such  as  he  shall  appoint  201  &  in  consideration 
II  W  is  to  deliver  or  cause  to  be  d.  unto  the  said  T  W  <fcc  100 
firkins  of  good  and  merchantable  Sturgion  at  M?  Richard 
Russells  house  in  Charlestownc  in  N  E  at  or  before  the  10th 
day  of  Sept  next  ensuing.  Bond  to  performe  in  160*. 
And  a  lettr  of  Attorney,  [nil.] 

I  John  Winthrop  Esq*  one  of  the  Council  and  Assistants 
for  the  Jurisdiccon  of  the  Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England 
doe  hereby  certify  unto  all  manner  of  persons  whoinc  it  may 
Concerne  that  Thomas  Allyn  of  New  Barnstable  in  New 
England  yeoman  did  before  the  twentieth  day  of  July  Anno 
Dili  one  thousand  six  hundred  thirty  and  nine  procure  from 
myselfe  at  that  time  being  Governor  of  this  Jurisdiceon  a  war 
rant  at  the  suit  of  John  Tooker  of  Barnstablc  "hi  the  County 
of  Devon  merchant  against  Isaack  Allerton  merchant  for  a 
debt  due  to  the  said  John  Tooker  from  the  said  Isaack  Aller 
ton  wch  warrant  as  appeareth  to  me  by  sufficient  testimony 
upon  oath  was  served  according  to  the  custome  of  this  Country 
And  further  I  doc  hereby  certifie  that  it  did  then  appeare  to 
me  that  the  said  Isaackc  Allerton  had  no  visible  estate  rcall 
or  personal  in  this  Country  In  testimony  whereof  I  have  at 
the  request  of  the  said  Thomas  Allyn  hereunto  sett  my  hand 
and  seale  the  22th  day  of  March  Anno  Dm  1640.  2  of  them 
were  made.  [1—  6] 

[210]  ]  WORTHY  SB  My  service  &  hearty  love  remem 
bered  unto  you  <fcc.  I  am  necessitated  at  this  time  to  trouble 

1  This  letter  is  written  l>y  Barnabas  (Anne)  was  born  after  1662.]     Perry's 

Davis  on   his  affairs  in   regard  to   the  Hcrfs  Gcne«L,  p.  6." 

Woodcock c  suit  to  one  Mr.   Lygon,  of  The  introduction  at  the  end  of  the 

whom   I   find    note   in   Mr.   Trumbull's  letter  of  Nayman,  Mr.   Antony  Swim- 

MS.  index  as  follows:  "Richard  Lygon,  nier's  brother,  is  puzzling.      I  have  not 

Esq.,  of  Madresfield,  co.  Worcester,  ok  found  either  name.     This  letter  I  sup- 

3  p.   lf>,  and  buried   18  April  1687,  at  pose  to  have  been  carried  by  Lech  ford 

Madresfii,    -was  1st  husband  of  Anne,  himself,  who  went,  home  in  the  August 

eldest  daughter   of  Sir  Francis  Hussel,  of  this  year,  though  it  may  be  another 

of  Strensham,  co.  Worcester,  bait.,  and  one  which  is  referred  to  in  tho   Note- 

niece  of  Sir   Win.    Sytton.     [His   wife  book,   p.  239. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  379 

you  wth  a  few  lines  about  my  Occasions  wherein  I  earnestly 
pray  yor  loving  ami  Christian  helpe;  It  is  not  unknownc  unto 
you  that  I  was  imployd  by  Ml  Will™  Woodcockc  in  his  af 
faires  hither  to  New  England  about  five  or  six  y cares  since, 
and  that  I  had  a  Letter  from  my  honourable  Lord  Say  yor  good 
Lord  &  master  to  the  reverend  Mr  Hooker  in  MT  Woodcockcs 
bchalfo,  tli at  1  returned  out  of  New  England  wth  MT  Hookers 
letter  in  answerc  to  my  Lord  and  that  againo  I  was  sent  by 
M?  Woodcocke  into  New  England  wth  another  letter  from  my 
Lord  to  Mr  Hooker  and  did  againe  returne  into  England  wth 
M!  Hookers  letter  in  answerc  to  his  Lordship.  You  knowe 
likewise  that  I  complained  to  yor  selfe  often  times  that  1  had 
travailed  much  in  Mr  Woodcockcs  affaires  &  was  at  great 
expcnees  thereabout  &  that  he  had  not  satisfycd  me  for  my 
said  travaile  payncs  <fe  charges,  [once  more  kind  Mr  Liggon 
let  me  intreate  }'ou  when  you  have  prepared  yor  Letter  &  have 
received  all  the  other  letters  or  writings  to  procure  my  Lord 
Say  to  write  upon  the  one  parte  of  each  writing  if  it  be  but 
upon  the  backc  side  that  such  a  day  of  the  moneth  &  yearc 
such  a  writing  or  letter  was  shewed  to  his  Lorpp  by  yo'selfc 
setting  thereto  but  his  Lorpp"  name]1  that  once  if  you  remember 
you  had  conference  wth  Mr  Will"1  Woodcocke  hereabout  and 
that  he  confessed  he  was  in  my  debt  £  promised  to  give  me 
satisfaction  you  can  I  hope  remember  the  effect  of  his  words 
to  you  thereabouts,  you  knowe  I  intended  to  come  over  as  a 
planter  at  my  first  voyage  and  to  that  end  did  bring  up  my 
goods  to  London  but  M?  Woodcockc  diverted  my  wife  and 
sent  me  over  into  New  England  upon  his  occasions  my  goods 
being  left  wth  Mr  Woodcocke  till  a  fitt  time  I  might  returne  to 
fetch  my  wife  And  since  I  returned  the  second  time  you 
knowe  I  was  imploycd  by  M^  Willm  Woodcocke  divers  jour 
neys  tt  hindered  from  comniing  over  hither  by  reason  he  did 
not  pay  me  for  my  former  pnines  <v  charges.  And  you  may 
remember  I  hired  Edward  Winne  and  another  young  man 
Carpenters  at  Broughtou  servants  for  me  in  New  England  & 
brought  them  to  London  wth  WTinnes  family  at  my  owne 
charges  wch  servants  because  M*  Woodcocke  faylcd  to  pay  me 

1  The  part  in  brackets  written  here  in  the  margin,  but  erased. 


380  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

my  money  wch  lie  owed  me  I  was  forced  to  put  away  to  one 
Roger  Hogge  afterwards  they  were  againe  assigned  to  me  & 
W.  John  Woodcocke  by  the  same  Roger  Hogge  Mr  Woodcockc 
laying  downc  one  half  of  the  money  yet  if  his  business  of  im 
paling  did  not  goc  on  then  I  was  to  have  the  servants  to  my- 
sclfe  &  allow  him  his  said  money  I  shall  beseech  you  to  talk 
wth  him  about  this  particularc  of  the  servants  &  to  take  notice 
of  his  answere  therein  whether  it  were  so  or  no.  And  then  I 
shall  desire  you  Sr  to  be  pleased  to  write  yor  knowledge  in  all 
those  particulares  to  the  Governor  for  the  time  being  in  New 
England  or  his  deputy,  but  let  it  come  to  my  owne  hand  to  be 
delivered,  I  live  at  Charlestowne.  And  if  my  Lord  write  a 
word  in  my  behalfe  touching  any  of  these  things  I  shall  be 
much  beholding  to  his  Lorpp.  Wthall  I  beseech  you  to  peruse 
this  inclosed  to  M?  Coventry  servant  to  my  Lord  Brooke  & 
then  seale  &  deliver  or  send  it  &  request  an  answere  wch  I  be 
seech  you  to  returne  wth  yo".  Also  I  shall  intreate  you  to 
receive  my  father  James  his  letter  &  my  brothers  wch  will  be 
brought  or  sent  you  &  send  them  wth  the  first  shipping  you 
can  heare  of  either  from  London  or  Bristoll  And  I  shall  ever 
rest  thankful  to  you.  1.  22.  1640. 

M*  Coventry  I  beseech  you  in  a  letter  to  the  Governor  of 
New  England  or  his  Deputy  declare  yor  knowledge  concern 
ing  the  iourneys  &  imployments  I  underwent  in  England  since 
my  second  returne  into  England  out  of  New  England  in  Mr 
William  Woodcockcs  affaires  from  London  into  Essex  to  Hodg- 
wells  <fc  another  place  above  30  miles  about  12  times  from 
London  to  Bristoll  once,  from  London  to  Dunstable  for  the 
children  once,  from  Teuxbury  to  London  9  or  10  times,  and 
about  his  service  in  London  at  the  custome  house  &  elswhere 
weighing  tobacco  arid  doing  other  businesses  knowne  to  yor 
selfe  And  you  knowe  of  my  goods  that  lay  at  M'  Woodcockes 
from  the  time;  of  my  first  comming  into  New  England  you 
knowe  my  goods  were  worth  about  201  I  received  them  not 
till  since  M!  Woodcockes  death  you  knowe  they  were  used  in 
the  house  &  some  of  them  spoyled  and  I  think  you  may  con 
ceive  they  were  51  the  worse  1  beseech  you  declare  yor  knowl 
edge  £  what  you  believe  herein  wthout  favor  or  respect  to  me 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  381 

or  any  living  or  dead  and  wthall  what  satisfaction  yon  knowc 
Mf  Woodcocke  over  gave  me     And  I  pray  deliver  yor  letter  to 
My  Liggon  who  will  convey  it  to  me    1.  22.  1040. 
Naynian  W.  Antony  Swimmers  brother. 

[211]  (icorgc  Dcnison1  of  Rocksbury  in  New  England  gent 
and  Bridget  Denison  his  wife  daughter  of  John  Thompson 
late  of  Preston  in  the  County  of  North1011  gent  deceased  and 
of  Mr!9  Alice  Thompson  now  dwelling  at  Rocksbury  aforesaid 
make  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Thomas  Worlidgo  Citi/en  it  silk 
dyer  of  London  and  M?  Viner  citizen  &  silk  dyer  of  London 
to  demand  receive  &  recover  of  Mr  Spencer  Clarke  parson  of 
the  parish  Church  of  Scaldwell  in  the  County  of  Northamp 
ton  or  any  other  lyahle  thereunto  the  portion  of  the  said 
Bridget  given  her  by  her  said  fathers  last  will  &  testament 
1.  22.  1640. 

Lewes  Kidby2  of  Boston  &c  a  lettr  of  Attorney  to  Will™ 
Hudson.  1.  22.  1040. 

Thomas  Page3  of  Saco  in  the  Province  of  Maigne  gent 
bound  to  Robert  Lucar  in  80l  ;  Conditioned  that  if  forty 
pounds  be  truly  payd  according  to  ccrtaine  bills  of  exchange 
drawne  by  him  upon  M?  Christopher  Phcllin  of  Fanchurch 
streete  London  to  My  John  Huxton  of  Wapping  Shipwright 
then  etc  dat'  1.  22.  1640. 

Good  ffather  I  shall  intreatc  you  it  my  brother  Reade  to  be 
pleased  to  call  to  minde  these  particulars  following  wch  1  am 

1  George  Dcnison  was  one  of  three  2  Lewis  Kidby  is  called  by  Savage 
brothers  who  at  this  time  lived  in  1'ox-  a  fisherman,  lie  lived  at  this  time,  I 
bury.  His  wife  Bridget  died  in  1643,  suppose,  on  a  house-lot  which  hud  been 
and  he  himself  went  to  England,  where  granted  to  him  in  K>3!>,  near  Mr.  Bcl- 
he  gained  some  military  experience  in  Hngham's  marsh-lots,  on  the  Town  Cove. 
the  civil  wars  and  also  married  a  second  ;$  Thomas  Page  is  called  in  Savage  a 
wife,  with  whom  he  came  back  to  this  tailor,  but  he  may  have  been  a  "gent" 
country.  lie  turned  his  military  fur  all  that.  The  name  of  Lucar  is 
knowledge  to  account  in  King  Philip's  among  the  freemen  at  Newport,  1650, 
war.  where  he  behaved  with  much  bra-  but  with  the  Christian  name  Mark  in- 
very.  He  died  in  1694.  stead  of  Kobcrt. 


382  LECHFOHD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

to  make  proofe  of  in  New  England.  You  knowe  that  about 
five  ycarcs  since  M^  Willm  Woodcocke  did  reteyne  me  by 
writing  bctwcene  us  to  come  over  into  New  England  to  follow 
his  businesses  heere  that  I  was  to  have  of  him  after  the  rate 
of  101  a  yeare  Tor  my  travaile  <fc  my  charges  borne  that  1  tooke 
shipping  for  New  England  about  the  time  of  Easter  1035 
That  I  returned  againe  into  England  the  same  yearc  about  the 
beginning  of  March  —  that  I  went  14)011  the  same  agreement 
the  second  time  for  the  said  M^  Woodcocke  into  New  England 
and  tooke  shipping  thither  about  the  time  of  Easter  in  the 
yeare  of  our  Lord  1G36  that  I  returned  againe  into  England 
about  Sept  in  the  yeare  1637.  That  Mr  William  Woodcocke 
used  me  in  divers  businesses  as  his  servant  and  attendant 
from  that  time  till  the  day  of  his  death  wch  was  about  a  yeare 
&  three  quarters  that  in  that  time  1  rode  divers  journeys  from 
Teuxbury  to  London  to  attend  upon  him  9  or  10  times  from 
London  to  Ilodgwells  in  Essex  and  another  place  as  farre 
about  12  times  from  London  to  Bristoll  once  from  London  to 
Dunstable  once.  That  I  intended  to  come  into  New  Engl :  as 
a  planter  at  the  time  of  my  first  voyage  &  to  that  end  brought 
my  wife  &  family  &  goods  to  London  but  Mf  Woodcocke  pre- 
vaylcd  wth  rny  wife  to  stay  behind  and  to  send  me  about  his 
business  bearing  me  in  hand  that  I  should  when  his  planta 
tion  was  prepared  come  over  &  fetch  my  wife  &  live  upon  his 
lands  to  improve  them  for  him,  and  in  the  mcane  while  to 
leave  wth  him  my  goods,  as  bedding  brasse  pewter  &  other 
things  of  the  value  of  201  or  more,  that  these  goods  remained 
from  that  time  till  the  day  of  his  death  he  having  used  them 
in  his  house  &  spoyled  some  of  them  so  that  they  were  I  con 
ceive  you  or  one  of  you  may  knowe  5*  the  worse.  That  I 
often  complayned  to  you  that  Mr  Woodcocke  had  not  satisfyed 
me  for  my  service  and  charges,  I  thinke  you  good  father  once 
did  ride  to  London  to  speake  to  Mf  Woodcocke  in  my  absence 
for  5*  wch  should  have  bin  by  covenant  payd  to  my  wife  but 
was  not  and  that  by  reason  Mr  Woodcocke  did  not  pay  me  for 
my  travell  &  charges  I  was  hindered  from  coming  into  N.  E. 
till  after  his  death  I  intreate  you  good  father  to  write  yor 
lettr  to  the  Governor  of  the  Mattachusetts  bay  in  N  E  for  the 


LECHFonn'S  ^r^^^srK]^T  NOTE-HOOK.        "S3 

time  being  or  his  deputy  of  yor  knowledge  in  these  tilings  or 
any  oilier  particulare  yon  niav  remember  in  ihis  businesse. 
And  for  my  brother  Readc  1  shall  pray  him  to  inquire  out 
Ml;  l>abb  the  ship  master  who  dwelles  in  Wapping  and  get  a 
note  under  his  hand  to  certify  that  I  payd  him  live  pounds 
for  my  passage  from  Ne\v  E  to  E  in  the  yeare  1  (>•}.">.  and  that 
afterwards  another  time  J  sold  him  a  pareell  of  strong  waters 
to  the  value  of  20*  for  tobacco  And  then  because  he  dwelles 
ncare  London  to  goc  unto  one  AH  Archbold  in  the  Ship 
(Marks  ofliec  or  some  other  experienced  Clarke  there  A'  hit  mite 
him  to  drawe  a  breife  <fc  pnnctuall  aflidavit  of  his  knowledge 
or  what  he  verily  believes  in  all  these  partieulares  A;  then  send 
or  deliver  the  same  to  M"[  Liggon  my  Lord  Says  gentleman 
whome  1  have  intreated  to  convey  these  things  to  me  and  soe 
doe  1  desire  yor  lettr  may  be  also  delivered  to  M!i  Liggon  to  be 
sent  to  me  These  things  stand  me  upon  both  in  my  good 
name  <fc  estate  &  I  beseech  you  to  doe  me  this  favor  as  to  stirre 
in  it  that  I  may  have  a  speedy  answcre  returned  wch  shall  be 
sent  me  by  Mr.  Liggon  or  if  he  should  be  dead  wch  God  forbid 
by  some  of  my  Lords  Says  family  who  may  shewe  the  writings 
to  his  Lorpp  before  they  be  sent  me  that  there  be  no  doubt 
made  of  them  when  they  come  hccrc.  [10s.  for  these  letters 
&  one  to  Mr.  Bridges.] 

[212]  John  Palmer1  of  Ilinghain  seaman  aged  about  40. 
ycares  sworne  saith  upon  his  oath  that  about  4  yeares  since 
he  came  to  dwell  at  Ilingham  and  shortly  after  one  Nicholas 
Jacob  procured  this  deponent  to  goe  fetch  a  load  of  hay  for 
the  widow  Large  and  this  deponent  commending  the  hay  when 
he  saw  it  said  it  was  prcty  good  hay  yea  said  Nicholas  Jacob 

1  This  John  Palmer  of  course  is  not  1648  and  in  1640.     lie  died  in  1659. 

the  man  who  got   into  difficulties  with  The    Widow    Lnrge    I    take    to   be   the 

his  father  (mite,  p.  194).     This  one  is  relict  of  one  "William   Large,  who  came 

merely  noted  by  Savage,  who  says  that  to  Ilingham  in   1635.     He  is  said    by 

he     may     have     moved     to     Scituate.  Savage  to  have  removed  to  Cape  Cod, 

Nicholas  Jacob  came  to  New  Kngland  but  he  may  also  have  made  the  longer 

in  1633,   and   moved  from  "Watertown,  journey    which    would     havo    justified 

where  he  had   first  lived,   to  Ilingham  his  wife  in  assuming   the   title  in   the 

in  1635.       He  was  a  representative  in  text. 


384  LECIIFOKD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

you  might  have  had  as  much  hay  on  yorr  owne  lott  as  would 
have  wintered  yor  cmv  why  said  this  deponent  hath  the  widdow 
Large  any  lott  heere  ?  No  said  Jacob  it  is  one  Mathcw  Hcrnes 
lott  who  is  gone  for  England  &  it  is  thought  he  will  come  no 
more  or  words  to  this  purpose,  [nil  gains  :] 

John  Cutteii  of  Newberry  in  New  England  marrincr  and 
John  Cutten1  the  younger  of  the  same  marriner  masters  of 
the  good  ship  the  Desire2  of  Boston  in  N  England  doc  bynd 
themselves  to  pay  Lawrence  Hazzard  of  London  shipwright 
301  14s6d  to  Robert  Crispe  of  London  marriner  9l  29  for  his 
7  moncths  service  in  the  said  ship  to  Will™  Wilbert  of  London 
marriner  IT1  1C3  upon  the  10th  day  of  May  next  or  at  the 
arrival  of  the  said  ship  in  England.  [2 — 6.] 

Leonard  Buttler  3  of  boston  bricklayer  mortgaged!  his  house 
<fc  garden  in  Boston  &  2  acres  of  land  at  long  island  to  Ather- 
ton  llaugh  of  Boston  gent  on  behalfe  of  John  Whittingham  of 
Ipswich  gent  for  25*  layd  out  for  him  above  two  yeares  since 
wth  reasonable  dammagcs  in  Worke  and  other  commodities 
wthin  a  twelve  moneth  dated  25.  1. 1641.  [1  —  6.] 

John  Crabtrcc  of  Boston  joyncr  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney 
to  Isaack  Hayncs  gent  to  receive  &  recover  of  Mathcw  Wood- 
rowc  4  of  Hartford  upon  the  river  of  Connecticott  carpenter 
the  summe  of  xli8  xid  wch  he  owcth  me.  1.  29  1641.  [6.] 

1  The  names  are  read  "  Cutting"  by     was   at    this    time   the   master  of   the 
Savage,  who  notices  them  in  his  Die-     ship. 

tionary.    They  are  certainly  not  Cutting  8  Leonard    Buttler   is  of  course  the 

in  Lcchford,  but  more  like  Cutten.    The  same  nmn  alluded  to  before  in  the  Note- 

younger  was   a   shipmaster  who   made  book,  with  different  spelling  of  his  last 

many  voyages  in  his  time.  name.     John  Whittingham  came  from 

2  The  ship  "Desire,"  of  Marbh'head,  Lincolnshire    in    England,    being    the 
is  spoken  of  several  times  in  Wirithrop.  grandson  of  William  Whittingham,  Dean 
She  was  built  at  Marblehead  in   1636,  of  Durham  in  the  time  of  Elizabeth, 
and  her  captain,  for  some  voyages  at  *  Matthew  Woodrow   [or  Woodruff] 
least,   was    William    Pierce,    who    was  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Farming- 
in  1611  absent  in  the   West  Indies  on  ton.       Isaac    Haynes    would    seem    as 
that  cruise  whereon  he  met  his  death  ;  though  he  might  be  a  relative  of  John 
so  it  is  likely  enough  that  John  Cutten  Haynes. 


LEC1IFORD-S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  08") 

M!  Will111  Ilutchinson  it  liis  Sonnc  Edward  Jlutehinson  for 
1001  sell  unto  M?  Win.  Tynge  of  Boston  100  acres  of  land 
little  more  or  less  in  the  precincts  of  Drayntrec  as  it  is  now 
layd  out,1  [1—] 

A  note  nf  account  of  the.  money  due  to  me  from    my  father 
in  l<t/!'  Tnn.MAS  Di-iXTKR.2 

First  upon  the  12th  day  of  July  !<>)!).  he  lion-owed 

of  me  to  be  payd  upon  demand SO1  0 

Also  that  summer  lie  had  of  me  two  ferkins  of 

butter  \vch  cost  me  out  of  my  purse  ....  3  10 

Also  lie  had  of  Mr  King  of  Lynne  by  my  appoint 
ment  the  same  summer  0  10 

Also  upon  the  17.  day  of  March  103!).  he  had 

of  me 15  0 

Also  lie  had  of  me  or  my  wife  in  the  summer 

following 2  0 

Also  lie  had  of  Mr  Hill  upon  my  account  the 

same  summer 2  12 

My  wife's  portion  \vas  to  be  100.  to  be  payd  at  the 
day  of  marriage  wch  was  in  October  10.'5(). 
thereof  50 

And  more  thereof  \vthin  six  moneths  after     .     .  50 


Toto     209     12 

My  ffather-in-law  paid  me  wfl'in  a  moneth  after 

our  marriage  201 

And  in  Februaiy  16-39  he  payd  me  more      .     .     .       191     Q 

Memorandum  that  17  Martii  1039  we  reckoned  & 
my  father  upon  the  whole  was  behinde  to  me 
(forgetting  M!  King's  bill  of  61  10s  )  for  wch  he 
gave  me  a  bill  under  his  hand 155  0 

After  he  gave  me  another  bill  for 10     13"      C(1 

Afterwards  my  ffather  sent  me  2  goats  at     ...         5l 

And  thereupon  20  June  1010  bound  the  mill  unto 

me  for  150 

So  that  the  bill  of  10*   13s  6'1  was  to  be  disehnrged  for  a 
servant  ct  other  things  wch  1  had  of  him. 

[1.]  JOHN  FIIEND. 

1  Sco  p.  177,  ante.  was    in  a  do.    frooinnn   of    Massachusetts 

2  Thomas   Dexter,  the  father-in-law     1G31,  but  was  disfranchised  1633.     He 
of  John  Friend,  came  to  Lynn  in  1C30,     moved  to  Sandwich  about  1640,  where 

25 


386          LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 
Two  writings  for  Barnabas  Davis     2.  12.  1641.     [Is.] 

[213]  Captaine  Edward  Gibones  of  Boston  &  Mr!3  Elizabeth 
Glover  of  Cambridge  widdowe  doe  grant  bargaine  sell  £  con- 
firme  unto  Mr  Maurice  Thomson  of  London  merchant  severally 
their  [W«w&]  partcs  in  the  ship  planter  of  London  heretofore 
by  their  order  sold  by  M*  Thomas  Hawkins  unto  the  said 
Mr.  Thomson. 

Richard  Callacot  of  Dorchester  in  N  E  tayler  for  82  4s  the 
remainder  of  1221  10a  due  by  bill  to  George  Alcocke  dated 
19.  Julii  1639  payable  15.  Aprilis  1640  doth  mortgage  his 
house  at  Dorchester  &  his  ft'arme  house  &  all  his  other  lands 
lying  in  Dorchester  to  Phillip  Eliott  &  William  Parke  executors 
of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  George  Alcocke  l  deceased  to 
pay  the  same  viz*  by  giving  sufficient  bills  to  pay  the  same  to 
M*  Nicholas  Treworthy  of  Exeter  merchant  or  in  redy  money 
&  discharge  the  executors  of  the  said  money  &  dammages 
from  such  time  as  the  same  was  due  by  the  said  bill.  The 
mortgage  to  be  to  pay  the  money  &  dammages  v\ch  Mr  Tre 
worthy  shall  recover  on  the  first  of  August  leave  a  space 
proviso  if  R  Callacot  can  procure  bills  to  the  executors  satis 
faction  that  then  the  same  shall  be  accepted  in  payment  if 
the  bills  be  accordingly  discharged.  [1221  10s.  —  40*  6s.  = 
82*  4s.] 


I  should  think  he  was  at  this  time,  the  Kev.  John  Eliot,  the  apostle.  He 
He  was  admitted  freeman  of  Plymouth  came,  it  is  thought,  about  1635  to  Ilox- 
1658,  and  died  in  Boston  1677.  Savage  bury,  where  he  was  a  deacon  in  the 
names  two  sons,  and  thinks  he  must  church.  William  Parke  came  to  Bos- 
have  had  other  children.  One  of  them  ton  in  1631  with  Roger  Williams  in 
I  take  to  have  married  John  Friend,  a  the  "Lion."  He  served  thirty-three 
carpenter,  who  lived  at  different  times  years  in  the  General  Court,  and  died  in 
in  many  parts  of  New  England,  but  was  1687.  All  that  Savage  can  tell  about 
probably  now  living  in  Boston,  where  Jeremy  Bhu-.kwell  is  that  he  came  in 
he  was  allowed  to  be  an  inhabitant  the  "Trnelove"  in  1635  at  the  age  of 
March  30,  1640.  eighteen.  We  do  not  learn  so  much 
1  George  Alcocke  died  Dee.  30,  1640,  even  as  this  from  the  entries  above, 
or  thereabouts.  (See  p.  148,  ante.)  Edward  Burcham,  of  Lynn,  clerk  of  the 
Philip  Eliot  was  brother  of  Jacob  Eliot,  writs  in  1645,  went  back  to  England 
mentioned  above  (pp.  151,  153),  and  of  1656. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  387 

George  Burchara  of  London  merchant  bound  to  Jeremie 
Blackwell  in  IT1  Condiconed  that  if  IT1  be  payd  by  Jolin 
Blackwell  unto  one  Mr  [u.m  j  Too  according  to  the  intent  & 
true  meaning  of  certaine  bills  of  exchange  heretofore  for  the 
same  drawne  &  signed  by  the  said  Jeremy  then  the  said  George 
shall  pay  unto  the  said  Jeremy  his  executors  &c  81  10s  upon 
demand  &  sufficient  notice  of  the  same  17*  so  payd. 

\_The  above  cut)')/  is  crossed  ont.~\ 

Whereas  Jeremy  Blackwell  heretofore  owed  me  George 
Bui-chum  of  Lincolnc  mercer  the  summc  of  81  10s  upon  ac 
counts  of  bargaincs  bet  weene  him  &  me  whereupon  according 
to  agreement  bet  weene  us  the  said  Jeremie  dre\ve  &  signed  a 
letter  of  Attorney  for  sevenleeue  pounds  to  be  payd  by  his 
brother  John  Blackwell  unto  Jonathan  Newcomen  mercer 
dwelling  on  London  bridge  And  whereas  afterwards  the  said 
Jeremie  Blackwell  gave  me  a  hill  or  writing  for  the  payment 
of  the  said  8  and  109  wth  reasonable  darnmages  for  the  whole 
17l  abovcsaid  to  me  heere  in  New  England  Now  1  doc  declare 
that  the  said  last  mentioned  bill  or  writing  was  given  me  by 
him  for  security  of  payment  of  the  said  17  pounds  and  there 
fore  if  the  same  be  or  shall  be  accordingly  payd  in  England 
then  the  said  bill  or  writing  of  8l  10s  &  the  penalty  thereupon 
is  to  be  voyd  &  of  none  effect  &  shall  be  delivered  up  &  can 
celled  &  also  I  shall  &  will  satisfie  &  pay  or  cause  to  be  pavd 
unto  him  his  executors  adm™  or  assignes  the  summc  of  81  10s 
upon  sufficient  notice  of  the  said  171  so  payd  &  upon  demand 
made  to  me  or  Edward  Burchum  of  Lynne  in  New  England 
witncsse  my  hand  the  23th  of  the  2.  moneth  1641.  [Is.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  whereas  I  Captaine 
Edward  Gibons  of  Boston  in  New  England  did  heretofore  give 
order  and  authority  unto  Thomas  Hawkins  of  Dorchester  in 
New  England  Shipwright  for  me  &  in  my  name  to  grant  bar- 
gaine  &  sell  unto  Maurice  Thomson  of  London  merchant  or 
to  any  person  or  persons  all  that  my  riirht  &  interest  of  and 
in  the  [Wrmjfc]  parte  of  the  ship  planter  of  London  whereupon 
the  said  Thomas  Hawkins  hath  granted  bargained  &  sold  my 


388  LECUl-ORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

said  right  and  interest  in  the  said  ship  accordingly  unto  the 
said  Maurice  Thomson  Now  1  the  said  Captaine  Giboncs  doe 
hereby  for  me  my  executors  &  administrators  continue  unto 
the  said  Maurice  Thomson  all  that  my  said  right  and  interest 
of  and  in  the  said  [W«n&]  parte  of  the  said  ship  &  rights  & 
appurtenances  thereunto  belonging  To  have  and  to  hold  the 
said  [blank]  parte  of  the  said  ship  and  all  &  singulare  the  prem 
ises  wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said  Maurice 
Thomson  his  executors  administrators  and  assignes  according 
to  the  purport  true  intent  &  meaning  of  the  said  grant  bar- 
gaine  &  sale  made  by  the  said  Thomas  Hawkins  &  of  these 
presents  In  witnesso  &e  2.  22.  1641.  [Is.] 

The  like  by  Mr!9  Glover  <fcc     [Is.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  22th  day  of  the  2.  moneth  1641.  be- 
tweene  Richard  Callacot  of  Dorchester  in  N  E  tayler  of  the 
one  parte  and  Philipp  Elliott  and  William  Parke  two  of  the 
deacons  of  the  Church  of  Roxbury  in  New  England  executors 
of  the  last  will  &  testament  of  George  Alcocke  late  of  the 
same  deceased  of  the  other  parte  Witnesseth  that  the  said 
Richard  Callacott  for  and  in  considcracon  of  the  Summe  of 
eighty  two  pounds  &  foure  shillings  the  remainder  of  a  debt  of 
one  hundred  twenty  two  pounds  and  ten  shillings  wch  he  owed 
unto  the  said  George  Alcocke  &  should  have  bin  payd  unto 
him  upon  the  fifteenth  day  of  Aprill  Anno  I)ni  1640  and  \vch 
the  said  R.  C  now  oweth  unto  the  said  executors  Philipp  Elliot 
&  William  Parke  as  more  at  large  in  and  by  one  bill  obli 
gatory  concerning  the  same  debt  bearing  date  the  nineteenth 
day  of  July  1639  under  the  hand  &  seale  of  the  said  Richard 
Collacot  it  doeth  and  may  appeare  and  for  full  payment  of  the 
said  eighty  two  pounds  &  foure  shillings  and  reasonable  dam- 
mages  for  detcyning  the  same  doeth  hereby  grant  bargaine  & 
sell  make  &  confinne  unto  the  said  executors  Philipp  Elliott 
&  William  Parke  all  that  his  dwelling  house  &  farme  house 
and  all  the  lands  &  tenements  woods  &  underwoods  and  here 
ditaments  houses  of  the  said  Richard  Collacot  lying  &  being 
in  Dorchester  aforesaid  or  the  precincts  thereof  and  all 
orchards  <fe  appurtenances  to  the  said  houses  or  either  of  them 


LECIIFORD'S   MAXfSSCliirT  NOTE-nOOK.  389 

belonging  or  reported  to  belong  To  have  [214]  nnd  to  hould 
the  said  dwelling  houses  lands  <fc  tenements  and  all  &  singii- 
lare  the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the 
said  executors  Philipp  Elliot  &  William  Parko  their  heires  and 
Assignes  for  ever  Provided  all  ways  that  if  the  said  Richard 
Collacott  his  heires  executors  or  administrators  shall  well  & 
truly  pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the  said  Executors  Philipp 
Elliott  &  Will"1  Parke  their  heires  or  assigncs  the  full  summc 
of  eighty  two  pounds  &  foure  shillings  wth  reasonable  damma- 
ges  for  deteyning  the  same  as  aforesaid  as  a  Jury  shall  award 
upon  or  before  the  ['-/</»/]  day  of  the  [Mi»£]  moneth  next  ensu 
ing  the  date  hereof  at  or  in  the  now  dwelling  house  of  the 
said  Philipp  Elliott  situate  in  Rocksbury  aforesaid  Then  these 
presents  shall  be  voyd  <fc  of  none  effect  &  the  said  Richard 
Collacot  his  heires  &  assigncs  shall  or  may  lawfully  have  & 
enjoy  the  premises  &  every  parte  thereof  as  in  his  or  their 
former  estate  anything  in  these  presents  to  the  contrary  con- 
tcyncd  in  any  wise  notwithstanding  And  the  said  executors 
Philipp  Elliott  &  Will1"  Parke  doe  hereby  grant  unto  the  said 
Richard  Collacot  that  if  he  shall  on  or  before  the  said  [M«n&] 
day  of  the  [Wu»fc]  moneth  aforesaid  draw  good  bills  of  ex 
change  such  as  the  said  executors  shall  admit  cfe  allow  for  the 
true  payment' of  the  said  eighty  two  pounds  <fc  foure  shillings 
unto  Nicholas  Trcworthy  of  the  City  of  Exeter  merchant  <fc 
the  same  shall  be  accordingly  payd  unto  him  or  his  assignes 
that  then  the  said  executors  will  accept  of  the  said  bills  of 
exchange  in  discharge  of  the  said  eighty  two  pounds  <v  foure 
shillings  according  to  these  presents  £  not  require  the  said 
dammages  unlesse  the  said  Nicholas  require  or  recover  dam- 
inagcs  of  the  said  executors  so  much  money  by  them  &  their 
testator  owing  unto  him  the  said  Nicholas  and  that  in  the 
meane  time  the  said  Richard  Collacot  may  remaine  in  posses 
sion  of  the  premises  as  their  lessee  In  witnessc  tvc  [3-4] 

Angell  Holland  I  of  Weymouth  in  N  E  yeoman  and  Wil 
liam  Game  his  servant  put  him  servant  to  John  Crabtrec  for 

1  Savage  spells  the  name  IIoll:inl,  servant  I  know  nothing  at  nil.  I  sup- 
but  I  think  the  spelling  in  Leehford  is  pose  he  may  have  become  a  member  of 
Holland.  He  was  a  shoemaker.  Of  his  the  church  at  New  Providence  spoken 


890  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

three  yeares  from  his  landing  in  the  West  Indies  in  or  neare 
the  Isle  of  providence  for  meate  drinke  &  cloathes.     [vacai] 

Hugh  Dcordall l  of  Hiiigham  millwright  <fc  John  Knight2  of 
Watcrton  in  N.  E.  carpenter  bound  to  Willm  Knap  for  4*  1s  to 
be  payd  in  money  or  corne  :  24.  Junii  1G41.  wth  a  Counterbond 
toJK.  [26-.] 

The  bounds  of  M'  Hutchinsons  160  acres3  bounded  on  one 
syde  \\ th  Mount  Wollaston  brooke  running  up  by  M^  Tings 
house  wth  the  lands  of  M*  Ting  &  Edmand  Quinsey  on  another 
syde  &  wth  a  swamp  on  another  sydc  and  wth  a  straight  lyne 
dividing  betweene  the  lands  of  the  said  M'  Hutchinsons  &  Mr. 
Ting  as  now  it  is  layd  out  being  parcell  of  the  great  lott  here 
tofore  given  the  said  Will"1  llutchinson  by  the  Towne  of 
Boston. 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Sergeant  Edward 
llutchinson  of  Boston  in  New  England  Sonne  &  heire  apparent 
of  William  .llutchinson  of  Aquidnecke  Hand  gent  as  well  by 
vertue  of  one  letter  of  Attorney  made  sealed  &  delivered  unto 
me  as  his  act  &  deed  for  his  interest  as  in  my  owne  right  & 
interest  whatsoever  doe  hereby  for  &  in  the  consideration  of 
one  hundred  pounds  of  lawful  money  of  England  to  me  in  hand 
payd  &  satisfied  before  the  sealing  &  delivery  hereof  to  the 
use  of  my  said  ffaihcr  it  my  self  c  by  William  Tynge  of  Boston 
aforesaid  merchant  grant  bargaine  <t  sell  unto  the  said  Will™ 
Tyngc  all  those  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  belonging 
to  my  said  father  and  myselfc  lying  within  the  precincts  of 
Brayntree  in  New  England  bounded  on  one  syde  wth  Mount 
Wollaston  brooke  running  up  by  the  house  of  the  said  William 
Tyngc  on  another  syde  with  the  lands  of  the  said  William 

of  with  reprobation  by  Johnson  (ii.  ch.  3  For  these  lands  of  the  Hutchinsons 

xx.).  see  pp.  177  and  212,  ante,  and  Boston 

'Hugh  Dcordall,  Newport,  1639  Town  Records,  pp.7  and  9  ;  also  cf.  p.  37, 

(Savage).  ante.  Edward  llutchinson,  it  will  be 

2  John  Knight,  is  called  a  maltster  remembered,  had  returned  before  this 

in  Savage,  who  notes  him  as  being  of  from  Newport  to  Boston,  where  he  was  a 

Wntertown  in  1635.  William  Knapp  prominent  man  until  his  death  in  King 

wa.i  also  of  Wutertown.  Philip's  war. 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  391 

Tyngc  and  Edward  Quinsey  on  another  syde  wlh  aswampeand 
on  the  other  syde  wth  a  straight  lyne  dividing  betweene  the 
lands  of  my  said  ffathcr  cfc  of  me  and  the  lands  of  the  said 
William  Tyngc  as  it  is  now  layd  out  And  all  woods  under 
woods  <t  hereditaments  thereunto  belonging  To  have  &  to  hold 
the  said  one  hundred  <fc  sixty  acres  of  land  &  all  &  singulare 
the  premises  wth  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  unto  the  said 
William  Tynge  his  heircs  and  assignes  for  ever  In  witnesse 


John  Long  of  Wcymout.li  in  New  England  husbandman. 
aged  about  twenty  foure  yeares  swornesaith  upon  his  oath  that 
whereas  Mary  Lane  was  to  serve  Richard  Silvester  l  of  Wey- 
mouth  aforesaid  for  the  space  of  foure  yeares  or  thcrabouts 
from  about  the  beginning  of  the  first  moiicth  last  as  this 
deponent  hath  credibly  heard,  one  Edward  Pole2  of  Wcymouth 
in  tlic  first  moncth  aforesaid  was  Desirous  to  marry  her  &  to 
buy  out  her  time  of  service  aforesaid  and  in  this  deponents 
hearing  did  promise  to  pay  unto  the  said  Richard  Silvester  for 
the  same  two  hundred  foot  of  boards  and  foure  pounds  in 
money  or  such  good  commodities  as  he  should  like  of  upon 
Midsomer  eve  next  &  then  the  said  Pole  was  to  take  her  away 
&  marry  her/  [1  —  0] 

[215]  Mary  Sherman  3  came  to  my  wife  the  twelveth  day 
of  Aprill,  1G41. 

1  Richard   Silvester,   of  "\Veymouth,  seven  children,  but  not  of  his  wife,  who 
had  come  to  New  England  in  1G30.     A  was  named  executrix,  so  that  we  can- 
lew  years  before  this  mention,  in  1630,  not  tell  with  certainty  how  this  matter 
however,  getting  into  some  trouble  with  tinned  out.     Of  the  difficulty  of  iden- 
the  Colonial  Government,    he  sold   his  tifying   this  or  any  other   John   Long 
estate,  and  shortly  afterwards  moved  to  of  this  period  we  have  already  spoken 
Scituate,   under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  (p.  113,  mite). 

Plymouth  Colony.  3  Mary   Sherman    I    should   like   to 

2  Edward  Pole  he.re  mentioned  must  think    was    the    woman    interested    in 
have  been  Edward  Poole,  of  Newport,  Captain   Keayne's  sow.     From  an  affi- 
who,  according  to  Savage,  passed  most  davit  of  Lech  ford's  later  in  the  Note- 
of  his   time   at   Wcymouth  (naturally  book  (p.  234),  and  various  entries  in  the 
enough,     considering    the    attraction),  earlier    part    (pp.  66,  84),    it    appears 
His   will    (1664)    gives    the   names  of  that  he  had  relations  with  Story  and 


392          LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Thomas  Rawlins  of  Weymouth  in  New  England  (fisherman 
aged  about  33.  yeares  swornc  saith  upon  his  oath  that  in  or 
about  Oct  last  he  heard  John  King  of  Wcymouth  seaman 
undertake  unto  Thomas  Applegate  l  of  Wcymouth  planter  to 
goc  in  his  boate  as  Master  thereof  if  an  other  man  could  be 
gotten  by  either  of  them  to  goe  wth  him  the  said  John  King 
to  help  manage  the  said  boate  and  they  agreed  together  that 
the  said  John  King  should  have  his  ownc  parte  of  the  iishe 
taken  by  himsclfe  in  the  sd  boate  freight  free  &  that  the  said 
Thomas  Applcgatc  should  have  the  4th  penny  of  freight  of 
goods  carrycd  in  the  said  boate  and  that  if  the  boate  or  any 
goods  therein  should  be  miscarryed  cast  away  or  hurt  by  the 
ill  ordering  or  laying  of  the  said  boate  the  said  John  King 
should  beare  the  dammage  thereof  and  their  words  &  agreement 
were  to  this  purpose. 

George  Allen  of  Wcymouth  in  New  England  planter  aged 
about  twenty  one  yeares  sworne  saith  upon  his  oath  that  about 
the  beginning  of  November  last  one  day  late  wthin  night  he 
was  present  in  the  house  of  John  King  of  Weymouth  seaman 
Master  of  Thomas  Applegates  boate  &  there  heard  the  said 
John  King  say  to  William  Newland  that  he  would  not  stand 
to  the  adventure  of  the  goods  of  the  said  William  Newland 
laden  in  the  said  boate  if  that  one  hogshead  of  salt  more  of 
his  were  put  into  the  same  boate,  whereto  the  said  Newland 
answered  that  noth withstanding  he  would  have  the  said  hogs 
head  put  into  the  said  boate  that  night  and  if  the  boate  were 
overladen  in  the  morning  some  of  the  said  goods  might  be 
againe  taken  out  thcrof  or  words  to  that  purpose  and  here- 

the  Shermans,  though  lie  may  not  have  next  year  he  was  discharged  therefrom, 

been  intimate  with  them.     This  men-  it  seems  from  later  entries,  where  inqui- 

tion  and   that  above,  (p.   175)  scern  to  ries    are    made    as    to   certain   ]iersons 

ine  to   refer  to   Mr.    Sherman   and    his  drowned  from  a  canoe,  that  he  continued 

wife.       Savage,    however,    thinks    that  the  business  in    1638,  though   possibly 

the  woman's  name  was  Elizabeth.  one  William  Blunter   was   the  regular 

1  Thomas  Ap]>legut<-,  of  Weymouth,  ferryman  at  the  time  (Mas*.  Col.  Rcc.y 

is  spoken  of  once  or  twice  in  the  Colo-  i.   156,  165,  246,  249).     George  Allen, 

nial  Record.     In  16155  he  was  licensed  John  King,  and  Thomas  Bawling  were 

to  keep  a  ferry  between  Wcssaguscus  all    inhabitants  of  Weymouth   at   this 

and  Mount  Wollaston  ;  and  though  the  time,  as  may  be  seen  in  Savage. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  393 

upon  this  Deponent  wth  others  did  help  put  in  the  said  ho<rs- 
head  that  night  into  the  said  h;nite  &  in  the  next  morning  the 
hoatc  did  not  rise  but  sunke  to  that  side  where  the  said  hogs 
head  lay  and  this  deponent  knoweth  that  the  said  boatc  did 
rise  well  enough  one  tyde  when  the  rest  of  the  said  goods 
besides  the  said  hogshead  were  in  it. 

George  Carre  of  Salisbury  in  N  E  shipwright  releascth 
Thomas  Coccrey *  his  apprentice  of  the  remaining  time  of  his 
service  <fc  upon  legall  &  reasonable  demand  to  deliver  up  his 
Indenture,  <fc  give  him  his  wearing  coate  an  old  p  of  bootes  of 
his  £  2  pairc  of  drawers  ct  his  two  paire  of  old  stoekins  <t  a 
wearing  shirt. 

Thomas  Coecrey  is  to  be  bound  unto  G  C  in  40*  Condiconed 
that  T  C  shall  not  intermcdle  in  ferry  on  Merrimacko  river 
wu'out  the  consent  of  G  C  at  any  time  hereafter  and  save  him 
liarmlesse  of  all  charges  <fc  dammages  wch  may  arise  &  come 
upon  G  C.  his  executors  etc  by  reason  of  the  said  Apprcntiship 
except  those  for  phisickc  &  surgery  at  Ipswich  Newberry  <fc 
Salisbury.  [2*.] 

And  a  release  by  Thomas  Coecrey  to  G  Carre  of  all  accons 
£  demands  whatsoever. 

2 Elizabeth  Blackborne  wife  of  Walter  Blackbornc  late  of 
Boston  in  N  E  shopkeeper  for  <fc  in  the  name  of  her  said  hus 
band  by  vertue  of  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  her  made  by  him 
dated  <fcc  selles  unto  Francis  Lisle3  of  Boston  aforesaid 

1  Thomas  Coccrey  is  the  nearest  to  Blackborne,  about  to  sot  otit  for  Eng- 
the  MS.    that  I  have   been  able  to  get  land     in    the    "  Desire,"    as    well    as    a 
for  this  man's  name,  hut  no  name  with  mention  of  the  deeds  in  the  Note-book. 
any  resemblance  thereto  is  to  be  found  3   Francis  Lisle  was  a  barber  and  sur- 
in   Savage.      George  Carr  was  an   Ips-  peon  of  Boston.     The  lot  of  land  here 
wich    man    originally,    but    moved    to  spoken  of  was  on  Washington   Street, 
Salisbury  with  the  first  settlers  of  the  very  nearly  opposite  the  spot  where  the 
town.     He  was  then  a  person  of  some  Old  South   now   stands.     He  had  also 
esteem,  married,  and  having  children.  a  lot  in   the   new   Held.     A\  ith  several 

2  This  transaction  is  noticed  in  AV/r.  other  New  Knglanders  lie  went  to  Old 
7>rrf.<?  (vol.  i.  p.  20\  where  may  be  found  England  during  the  Civil  War,  wh'To  he 
the  letter  of  attorney  and  will  of  Walter  served  as  surgeon  in  the  Karl  of  Man- 


894  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

barber  the  dwelling  house  <t  shopp  with  outhouses  garden  & 
2  acres  &  halfe  of  land  in  Gentry  field  of  the  said  Walters 
forever  in  fee  simple  for  401  by  Articles  of  agreement  to  he 
payd  101  a  ycare  upon  or  before  every  tenth  of  December  first 
payment  to  be  10  10bri3  1641  at  or  in  the  dwelling  house  of 
Richard  Ilutchinson  situate  in  Cheapside  London  knowne  by 
the  name  of  the  signe  of  the  Angell  <fc  Starre  provided  that  if 
30  or  401  the  portion  of  Elizabeth  Sutton  daughter  of  [blank-] 
can  in  the  inoane  time  be  recovered  the  same  shall  be  paid  in 
discharge  of  the  prmises. 

The  hangings  of  the  parlor  to  goe  wth  the  house.  The  house 
to  be  bound  <fc  the  money  to  be  payd  in  commodities  merchant 
able  in  England  if  money  fayle.  [5s.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  eighteenth  day  of  the  third  moneth 
Anno  Dili  1641  betweene  Elizabeth  Blackborne  wife  of  Walter 
Blackbovne  late  of  Boston  in  New  England  shopkeeper  for  and 
on  the  behalfe  of  her  said  husband  of  the  one  parte  and  Francis 
Lisle  of  the  same  barber  of  the  other  partc  witnesseth  that 
wheras  the  said  Walter  Blackborne  by  his  deed  under  his 
hand  &  scale  dated  the  two  &  twentieth  day  of  the  first  moneth 
last  past  sealed  in  the  presence  of  Thomas  Miller  &  Thomas 
Fowlc  give  unto  the  said  Elizabeth  Blackborne  full  power  & 
authority  to  sell  &  dispose  as  she  should  think  fitt  all  such 
houses  &  lands  among  other  things  as  did  belong  unto  the  said 
Walter  Blackborne  as  more  at  large  by  the  said  deed  recorded 
[216]  by  the  Recorder  of  Boston  aforesaid  it  doth  <fc  may  ap- 
peare  Now  witnesseth  these  presents  that  the  said  Elizabeth 
Blackborne  doth  hereby  for  &  in  the  bchalfc  of  her  said  hus 
band  give  grant  enfcoft'e  &  confirmc  unto  the  said  Francis 
Lisle  all  that  the  late  dwelling  house  &  shop  new  built  of  the 
said  Walter  Blackborne  &  the  garden  thereunto  adioyning  & 
two  acres  £  halfe  of  land  thereunto  belonging  lying  in  Gentry 
field  with  the  appurtenances  and  the  hangings  of  the  parlor 

Chester's   life-guard.      He   returned   to  his  Dictionary,  and  Lioll  in  his  edition 

New  England,  however,  in  1646.     See  of  Winthrop.     It  is  Lisle  in  the  printed 

Winthrop  (vol.  ii.  p.  245)  and  Savage.  Suffolk  Deeds,  and  very  clearly  Lisle  in 

The  name  is  spelled  by  Savage,  Lyall  in  the  Lechford  MS. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-HOOK.  395 

of  the  said  dwelling  house  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  dwell 
ing  house  &  shop  garden  &  land  and  all  <t  singularc  the 
premises  wtb  the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  Francis  Lisle 
his  heires  &  assignes  for  ever  Upon  condition  that  the  said 
Francis  Lisle  his  heires  executors  administrators  or  assignes 
shall  &  will  well  &  truly  pay  or  cause  to  be  payd  unto  the  said 
Walter  Blackborne  his  executors  administrators  or  assignes 
the  suminc  of  forty  pounds  of  lawfull  money  of  England  or  els 
the  full  value  thereof  in  goods  <fc  commodities  merchantable 
in  England  at  or  in  the  now  dwelling  house  or  shoppe  of  Rich 
ard  Hutchinson  lincndraper  situate  in  cheapside  london  called 
by  the  name  of  the  signc  of  the  Angell  &  Starre  in  manner  & 
forme  following  that  it  is  to  say  ten  pounds  on  or  before  the 
first  day  of  the  third  moneth  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  ten 
pounds  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  the  tenth  moneth  wch 
shall  be  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  1642.  ten  pounds  on  or 
before  the  tenth  day  of  the  tenth  moneth  wch  shall  be  in  the 
yeare  of  our  Lord  1643.  And  ten  pounds  on  or  before  the  tenth 
day  of  the  tenth  moneth  wch  shall  be  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord 
1644.  Ncverthelesse  the  said  Francis  Lisle  doth  hereby  grant 
unto  the  said  Walter  Blackborne  that  if  30  or  401  the  portion 
of  Elizabeth  Sutton  can  be  in  the  mean  time  recovered  that  the 
same  or  so  much  therof  as  will  suffice  shall  be  payd  over  unto 
the  said  Walter  Blackborne  his  executors  admrs  or  assignes  in 
full  &  present  discharge  of  the  premises  or  so  much  thereof  as 
shall  remaine  unpaid  at  the  time  of  such  recovery  In  witnesse 
&c  sealed  before  M*  Edward  Hutchinson  myselfe  <t  John  Biggs. 
•  Foure  billes  of  101  a  peece  to  be  sealed  unto  the  use  of  the 
said  Walter  Blackborne  to  be  payd  as  abovesaid  dated  &  sealed 
before  the  same  witnesses. 

3.  20. 1641.  A  medicine  for  the  whites  &  immoderate  flux  of 
the  courses  by  IK  Morlcy  Scabies  one  handfull  raysons  of  the 
sun  stoned  one  handfull  wood  sorrell  one  handfull  white  wine 
halfe  a  pinte  a  nutmeg  grated  one  parsley  roote  sliced  straw 
berry  leaves  halfe  an  handfull  hartshornc  filed  boylcd  together 
softly  in  a  quarte  of  running  water  one  houre  strayned  &  sweet 
ened  wtb  sugar  to  be  taken  betweene  meales  as  a  julip  wanne. 


39G  LECUFOUD'S  MAXLfSClilPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

The  Case  of  Barnabas  Davies  viz*  betwecnc  John  Woodcocke 
by  his  Attorney  Mr.  Edward  Holliokc  plaintiffe  against  y°  said 
Barnabas  Davies  in  a  matter  of  the  nature  of  an  accon  of 
aecount  as  the  bayliffe  servant  &  Attorney  of  the  said  John 
Woodcocke  it  bctwecne  the  said  Barnabas  Davies  plaintiffe 
against  ye  sd  M1:  Holyokc  Attorney  for  the  said  John  Woodcocke 
gent  for  the  reasonable  expenses  &  dammages  of  the  said  Bar 
nabas  upon  the  Statute  of  Westmr  2.  £  10th  or  11th  \vch  enactetli 
that  as  all  bayliffes  &  servants  ought  to  account  before  Audi 
tors  £  make  speedy  agreement  so  that  the  Auditors  allow  the 
accountants  their  reasonable  expense  <fe  costs  <fcc.  The  causes 
came  to  tryall  &  hearing  as  a  crosse  suit  one  party  against 
the  other  in  the  Court  at  Boston  the  second  day  of  the  first 
moncth  1640  or  41.  [os.] 

Edward  Hall1  of  Duxbury  in  New  England  Carpenter  & 
late  of  Henborough  in  the  County  of  Gloucr  bonnd  in  301  to 
John  Pollard  to  pay  him  IGl  — 4  —  7d  upon  the  9th  day  of 
October  next  ensuing  dated  3.  21.  1641.  the  paym*  to  be  made 
at  the  Tolsey  in  Bristoll.  scaled  coram  me.  [Is.] 

[217]  2  The  said  John  Woodcocke  by  his  Attorney  the  said 
M*  Holliockc  demands  an  account  of  the  said  Barnabas  Davies 
for  1501  received  by  him  for  certaine  cattell  wcb  belonged  to 
William  Woodcocke  brother  of  the  said  John  and  forthehalfe 
of  the  profitts  of  two  carpenters  service  the  joynt  servants  of 
the  said  John  Woodcocke  &  Barnabas  Davies  &  for  some  other 
moneys  received  by  the  said  Barnabas  to  the  use  of  the  said 
John  Woodcocke. 

The  said  Barnabas  accounted  shewing  that  wth  the  said 
1501  ho  bought  other  cattell  &  afterwards  exchanged  them 
for  six  oxen  «fc  a  carlo  wch  he  was  <fc  is  ready  to  deliver  unto 
the  plts  said  Attorn7  whereof  and  of  the  profits  gained  by 

1  Edward  Hall,  of  Duxbury,  is  noted         '*•  This  written  opinion  of  Lcclifonl 

in   Savage    and    in    NVinsor.      Ho   was  on   the  Barnabas  Davis  case  does  not 

later  of  Tannton,  then  of  Bridgewater,  throw  any  additional  light  on  the  state- 

and  left  the  Colony  a  debtor  in  1652,  ments  and   affidavits   of  pp.  204,   210, 

says  Win.sor.  and  211,  though  it  is  a  good  summing  np. 


LECHFOUD'S   MANUSCRIPT  XOTK-KOOK.  397 

them  ct  liis  charges  about  all  the  said  cat  tell  ct  moneys  re 
ceived  the  said  Barnabas  makes  his  reasonable  account,  tt  for 
the  said  carpenters  service  it  the  profits  thereof  In;  saith  lie  is 
rcdy  to  allowe  hali'e  the  profits  thereof  to  the  said  John  Wnod- 
cocke  provided  that  he  beare  halfe  charges  concerning  them 
according  to  equity,  as  appcareth  by  the  account  of  the  said 
Barnabas  exhibited  into  the  Court.  Barnabas  Davies  in  his 
suit  demands  allowance  of  his  reasonable  charges  and  payment 
of  his  sallary  or  wages  for  his  services  voyages  ct  travailes 
undergone  as  well  for  the  said  William  as  for  the  said  John 
together  wth  recompense  for  certainc  dammages  as  appeareth 
in  the  said  account  and  alleadgeth  that  (>4i  109  10d  or  ther- 
abouts  is  due  unto  the  said  Barnabas  for  his  said  charges  & 
sallary  besides  the  said  dammages. 

The  Court  was  clearc  in  this  that  the  said  Barnabas  was  in 
equity  to  be  payd  for  his  service  ct  travailes  undergone  as  well 
for  the  said  William  as  for  the  said  John  <t  all  dammages 
chargeable  upon  either  in  as  much  as  the  same  estate  was  first 
Williams  ct  by  him  conveyed  to  his  said  brother  John  and  that 
the  said  Barnabas  was  imployed  by  both  of  them. 

The  Jury  gave  a  speciall  verdit  wch  is  entered  to  this  effect 
that  the  said  Ml  Edward  Holliockc  for  the  said  M*  John 
Woodcocke  shall  have  all  such  money  goods  ct  cattell  as  shall 
be  found  M*  Woodcocks  ct  halfe  the  carpenters  &  10s  costs  & 

what    \ti  ftvo  words  of  untranslated  cipher  hereA 

and  M*  Holliockc  is  to  give  the  said  Barnabas  Davies  what 
shall  appcare  due  upon  a  hist  account  and  he  to  have  dammage 
for  his  money  since  demanded  &  M*  William  Tynge  &  MF 
Thomas  Lechford  were  appointed  Auditors.  Whereupon  M* 
Ilolyoke  demands  ct  Barnabe  Davis  delivers  the  said  six 
oxen  ct  carte  to  the  said  M*  Ilolyoke  according  to  the  said  ver 
dict  ct  order.  At  the  day  appointed  for  the  audit  the  said  M* 
Ilolyoke  demanded  the  account  to  be  examined  oncly  about 
Barnaby  Davis  his  agency  for  John  Woodcocke  ct  saith  that 
was  the  meaning  of  the  Court  Jury  verdict  ct  order  and 
allcageth  that  he  the  said  M!  Holyokc  thinks  any  accompts 
for  William  Woodcocke  deceased  were  not  to  be  agitated  till 


398  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

he  heard  from  England  about  William  Woodcocks  dealings 
w"1  Barnabe  Davies  or  to  this  effect. 

Barnabas  Davies  alleadgeth  that  he  conceives  the  Court 
intended  that  his  account  should  be  heard  both  for  William 
Woodcockes  &  John  Woodcockes  occasions  &  services  done 
by  the  said  Barnabas  Davies  and  is  unwilling  the  Auditors 
should  proceed  unlesse  Mr.  llolyoke  will  yeeld  thcrto  which  he 
denying  ut  supra  the  said  Auditors  certify  that  they  con 
ceive  thereupon  (<fc  not  finding  Willm  Woodcocke  mentioned 
in  the  said  order  of  Court  or  verdit)  that  the  service  expected 
from  them  could  not  be  effectually  accomplisht. 

Questions  hereupon. 

1.  Whether  or  no  the  Court  &  Jury  by  the  said  words  in  the 
verdict  that  M*  Ilolliocke  should  give  Barnabas  Davies  what 
shall  appeare  due  upon  a  just  account  did  not  intend  the  said 
Barnabas  Davis  his  account  touching  both  the  said  brothers 
William  <t  John  Woodcock  ? 

2.  Whether  or  no  it  be  equall  that  Barnabas  Davies  being 
now  out  of  possession  of  any  parte  of  the  estate  equall  in  any 
measure  to  his  demands  be  stayed  from  his  remedy  till  infor 
mation  be  had  from  England  from  1  knowe  not  whome  nor 
when  nor  by  whome. 

[218]  Having  perused  the  case  of  Barnabas  Davies  and  his 
account  &  all  things  thcrto  belonging  wch  he  hath  shewed  me 
I  conceive  opinion  that  the  verdit  might  have  bin  made  by  the 
Jury  or  at  least  entered  more  certaine  &  plaine  than  it  is  yet 
doc  not  doubt  but  the  Court  will  adjudge  it  to  be  just  &  equall 
1hat  the  account  ought  to  be  heard  and  allowed  as  well  for 
William  as  John  Woodcocks  services  &  that  Barnabas  Davis 
shall  have  his  speedy  reasonable  allowances  <fc  remedy  accord 
ing  to  the  equity  of  Ihc  Statute  of  Wcstmr  2.  10  or  11th  and 
so  had  Joseph  Bachellorhis  present  allowances  against  James 
Brocke  Attorney  for  Mr  Paramor1  of  the  Isle  of  Thanet  allowed 
here  in  New  England,  upon  the  account,  and  divers  actions 
have  bin  brought  here  against  the  Attorneys  &  Agents  of 
others  in  England  &  recovered  without  stay  to  heare  the  par- 

1  See  ante,  pp.  75,  76,  79. 


LECIIFORD'S  MAM'SCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  300 

tyes  ownc  answcrc  out  of  England.  Ncvcrtliclcssc  I  thinkc  it 
equall  that  if  hereafter  M*  Ilolyoke  can  shcwe  any  discharge 
or  acquittance  which  will  cutt  off  any  partc  of  Barnabas  Davis 
demands  that  then  he  should  repay  the  same  &  give  security 
so  to  doc.  Furthermore  to  give  what  light  I  may  to  the  Audi 
tors  or  Jurors  that  shall  hereafter  deale  in  this  businesse  <fe 
for  the  better  &  more  speedy  ending  of  the  same  I  thinke  good 
to  deliver  my  opinion  in  some  other  particularcs  incident  to 
the  cause.  And  first  I  doe  conceive  that  Barnabas  Davis  being 
a  servant  bayliffe  &  Attorney  for  M?  Williaan  <fc  M*  John  Wood- 
cocke  is  to  be  believed  in  his  account  for  all  voyages  travailes 
services  costs  &  charges  receipts  &  disbursements  by  him 
made  for  them  unlcssc  they  or  their  Attorney  M^  Ilolyoke  can 
disprove  the  same,  especially  if  the  said  Barnabas  Davis  de 
liver  his  said  account  upon  his  oath  &  so  was  the  said  Joseph 
Bachellor  believed  in  his  account  for  it  would  be  an  infinite  & 
allmost  impossible  worke  to  prove  every  particulare  by  wit 
nesses  remaining  both  heerc  <fe  in  England  dispersedly  besides 
servants  are  by  their  masters  trusted  from  the  beginning  of 
their  imployment  &  if  they  doe  deceive  their  masters  they  are 
in  fault  to  trust  such  servants  <t  therefore  it  must  be  presumed 
the  servants  are  faithfull  els  their  masters  would  not  trust 
them  :  Neverthelesse  Barnabas  Davis  should  doe  well  to  make 
as  good  proofe  as  he  can. 

Secondly  I  conceive  that. if  Barnabas  Davis  cannot  prove 
what  in  particulare  his  sallary  should  be  that  the  same  ought 
to  be  assessed  by  the  Auditors  or  by  a  Jury  so  it  be  not  above 
his  demands. 

Thirdly  that  if  Barnabas  Davis  canne  prove  that  besides  his 
said  sallary  he  was  to  live  upon  M*  William  &  Mr  John  Wood 
cocks  plantation  to  improve  the  same  for  them  as  their  bayliffe 
or  Lessee  for  such  other  consideration  as  should  be  thought 
equall,  then  because  he  hath  bin  hereby  hindered  five  ycares 
from  planting  for  himselfe  in  this  Country  T  conceive  his 
(laminates  herein  also  are  to  be  assessed  by  the  Auditors  or  a 
Jury  so  it  be  not  above  his  demands  for  no  man  can  thinke  it 
reasonable  that  Barnabas  Davis  should  mannagc  a  ffarme  of  400 
acres  wth  stocke  thereon  oncly  for  49  a  wceke  sallary  accord- 


400  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

ing  to  wch  rate  onely  lie  hath  demanded  for  his  sallary  being 
as  it  seems  the  originall  agreement  \vth  M^  Willm  Woodcocke 
that  4s  a  wccke  was  to  he  Barnabas  Davis  his  wages  till  the 
ffarmc  should  be  recovered  &  that  was  to  be  upon  the  second 
voyage  at  latest  &  ullthough  then  it  were  not  recovered  nor  is 
yet  notwithstanding  now  Mr.  John  Woodcocke  hath  recovered 
dammagcs  for  the  same  and  thcrfore  Barnabas  Davis  is  to 
have  his  dammagcs  also.  Nevertheless©  because  M?  John 
Woodcocke  is  not  yet  in  possession  of  all  that  he  hath  re 
covered  &  the  estate  is  much  impaired  by  the  fall  of  cattle  <fcc 
the  Court  will  no  doubt  have  consideration  hereof  in  mitigat 
ing  the  dammages  &  so  direct  the  Jurors  or  Auditors  that  shall 
have  to  deale  herein. 

Fourthly  that  if  Barnabas  Davis  can  prove  that  before  Mf 
Holyokes  accon  brought  he  offered  to  agree  wth  him  on  reason 
able  terms  &  to  deliver  him  the  oxen  &  carte  iHie  would  pay 
&  allowe  unto  the  said  Barnabas  what  should  be  found  his  due 
then  I  conceive  the  said  10s  costs  given  against  him  are  to  be 
discharged. 

Fifthly  upon  the  same  ground  I  conceive  he  is  to  be  dis 
charged  of  any  pretence  of  dammages  for  any  supposed  im- 
paire  of  the  estate  since  M?  Holyokes  letter  of  Attorney 
shewed  to  Barnabas  Davis :  for  that  it  is  both  law  &  equity 
&  so  declared  by  the  said  Law  of  Westmr  the  second  that 
Accountants  in  wch  number  are  Bayliffs  receivers  chamberlains 
servants  &c  are  to  be  allowed  their  reasonable  expences  & 
costs  &  therefore  that  this  case  differeth  from  crosse  debts  & 
accons  at  Lawe  betweene  party  &  party  where  stoppage  is  no 
payment,  yet  by  course  of  equity  such  stoppages  are  often  made 
[and  may  bo  [219]  levyed  in  the  Sheriffs  hands  redy  to  be 
delivered  to  the  party  yet  if  the  defend1  shcwe  the  King  in 
Chancery  that  the  plaintifc  is  departing  the  Kingdome  and 
that  the  defend1  hath  no  means  to  recover  his  debt  of  the  pltiff 
when  he  is  gone :  the  Court  will  in  some  cases  award  a  ne 
exeat  regnum  &  cause  the  Sheriffe  to  bring  in  the  money  into 
Court  all  wch  is  but  cquall  &  oftentimes  in  practise.  —  all 
between  these  bracket*  crossed  out.]  Sly  all  dammages  for  and 
about  these  businesses  of  Will™  &  John  Woodcocke  are  of 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  401 

the  nature  of  expcnces  unto  Barnabas  Davis  if  not  expense 
of  his  money  yet  of  his  time  &  other  losses  as  precious  as 
money  and  therfore  M*  Holyoke  could  not  say  to  Barnabas 
Davis  render  me  an  account  for  John  Woodcocke  &  recover 
your  owne  as  you  can. 

Sixtly  I  conceive  that  although  the  verdit  be  that  Mr  Holy 
oke  shall  give  Barnabas  Davis  what  shall  appeare  due  upon  a 
just  account  yet  that  Mr.  llolyoke  is  not  chargeable  herewith 
out  of  his  owne  estate  but  out  of  Mr  John  Woodcocks  &  such 
as  are  or  shall  come  to  the  hands  of  the  said  Mr  Holyoke. 

Seventhly  that  if  any  of  the  cattell  dye  or  be  dead  in  M? 
Holyokes  hands  wthout  his  default  he  is  neither  to  answere 
them  to  John  Woodcocke  nor  Barnabas  Davis. 

BOSTON  3.   26.   1641. 

All  which  at  the  request  of  the  said  Barnabas  Davis  I  have 
made  bould  to  deliver  as  my  opinion  in  the  premises  the  rather 
because  I  desire  not  to  be  further  interested  in  this  matter 
which  neverthelesse  I  humbly  submitt  to  the  Judgment  of  the 
Court. 

THO  :  LECHFORD. 

Robert  Saltonstall  1  gent  bound  to  Beniamin  Keayne  gent 
to  pay  him  as  much  money  as  two  stecres  wch  he  is  to  have  of 
Captaine  Edward  Gibones  by  appointment  of  the  said  Robert 
Saltonstall  shall  come  shorte  of  twenty  pounds  in  value  wthin 
three  weckcs  after  the  date  hereof  dated  3.  28.  1G41. 


Thomas  Purches  2  of  Pagiscot  gent  makes  a  letter  of  At 

torney  unto  M?  John  Olliver  g  Thomas  Lechford  g  George 

1  Robert  Saltonstall  was  at  this  time  own  and  his  brother's,  in  which  he  was 

at   "Windsor,    Conn.      This    agreement  assisted  by  Francis  Stylos,  who  appears 

probably  has  some  connection  with  the  in  the  Barnabas  Davis  case,  and  by  him 

letter    of    attorney    on    p.    189    from  led  into  such  expenditure  as  inconve- 

Robcrt  Keayne  to  one  Tinker,  of  Wind-  nienccd  the  whole  family  in  later  years. 

sor,  to  collect  several  debts,  and  among  2  Thomas  Purchos,  of  Pagiscot,  was 

others    501    from     Robert    Saltonstall.  one    of    the    many    adventurers    who 

Robert  was  a  younger  son  of  the  baro-  crowded    the   shores   of   Maine   in   the 

net,   and  was  engaged  at   Windsor  in  early  times  of  the  Colony,  and  of  more 

looking   out   for  some  property  of  his  ability  and  discretion,  apparently,  than 

26 


402 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 


Pier  of  dorchester  pi :  &  John  Gallop  of  Boston  mariner 
ioyntly  or  severally  to  sue  Robert  Morgan  of  Pemmaquid 
James  Smith  of  Wayquait  Robert  Slmte  &  Arthur  Browne  of 
Winniganset  for  trespasse  on  the  case  in  wrongfully  taking 
away  44  moose  skins  of  the  value  of  501  out  of  the  house  of  the 
said  M'  Purchcs  &  converting  the  same  to  their  owne  use  wch 
skins  were  left  there  by  Abacodusset  an  Indian  Saggamore  of 
Kennebecke  in  trust  with  the  said  Thomas  Purches  so  that 
afterwards  the  said  Indian  repaired  to  the  said  Mr  Purches  for 
satisfaction  for  the  said  skinnes  &  hath  received  some  satis 
faction  &  relyeth  upon  him  for  full  satisfaccon  for  the  same  & 
was  not  in  a  little  danger  of  his  life  &  the  lives  of  his  wife 
&  family  therabout  &  further  hath  lost  divers  advantages  of 
trade  wth  the  said  Saggamore  £  all  his  company  <fc  undergone 
scandall  among  the  English  before  the  truth  was  knowne  wch 
lay  hid  a  yearc  <fc  halfe  from  the  fact  done  to  his  dammage 
500'.  [3  —  4] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Thomas  Purches 
of  Pagiscot  in  New  England  gent  doe  hereby  in  my  place  put 
John  Oliver  gent  Thomas  Lechford  gent  George  Dier 1  planter 
&  John  Gallop2  marriner  my  Attorneys  joyntly  or  severally 
against  Robert  Morgan  of  Pemmaquid  James  Smith  of  Way- 


most  of  his  kind.  Ho  c.imc  over  in 
1628  ;  afterwards  was  one  of  the  chief 
men  at  the  settlement  of  Pagiscot  or 
Pegypscott,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Andro- 
fccoggin  River.  A  deed  of  this  land  to 
Governor  Winthrop  and  the  re>,t  of  the 
Massachusetts  Colony  may  be  seen  in 
the  M<tns.  Co/,  lice.,  i.  272,  signed  hy 
Thomas  Purches.  Towards  the  end 
of  his  life  he  lived  in  Lynn,  having 
been  troubled  by  the  Indian  wars  which 
ravaged  the  region  of  his  former  home. 
He  died  in  1678. 

1  George  Dyer,  of  Dorchester,  where 
he   was   a   man    of    some    prominence, 
is   often   mentioned    in    the  Dorchester 
Records. 

2  John  Gallop,  of  Boston,  mariner, 


is  known'  to  posterity  from  the  name 
Gallop's  Point,  which  was  given  to  the 
first  point  of  land  on  the  peninsula 
north  of  the  Town  Cove.  The  next 
was  called  Merry's  Point,  after  Walter 
Merry,  and  the  next  Hudson's  Point, 
after  Francis  Hudson  the  fisherman. 
Gallop  was  a  fisherman  and  pilot,  and 
lived  partly  in  Boston,  where  he  had  a 
house  on  the  road  running  by  the  sea 
side,  just  south  of  Gallop's  Point.  The 
other  names  here  are  hardly  worth  in 
quiring  about.  They  may  all  be  found  in 
Savage  as  inhabitants  of  some  one  of  the 
towns  along  the  coast  of  Maine.  Robert 
Shute  and  Arthur  Brown  have  appeared 
in  the  Note-book  before  (pp.  137  and 
209),  but  neither  is  of  consequence. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  403 

quait  Robert  Shute  &  Arthur  Browne  of  Winniganset  in  an 
accon  of  trespasse  on  tlie  case  scilicet  ffor  that  they  the  said 
Robert  James  Robert  &  Arthur  upon  the  [blank]  day  of  [blank] 
in  the  fifteenth  yeare  of  the  raignc  of  the  Kings  Matlc  that  now 
is  my  [220]  house  at  [blank]  did  break  and  enter  and  there  did 
fcake  <fe  carry  away  &  convert  to  their  owne  use  forty  foure 
moose  skinnes  of  the  value  of  fifty  pounds  \vch  were  there 
before  that  time  left  in  trust  wth  me  by  Abacodusset  an  Indian 
Saggambre  of  Kennebecke  so  that  afterwards  the  said  Sagga- 
niore  with  his  company  repayred  to  me  for  satisfaction  for  the 
said  moose  skinnes  &  I  was  necessitated  to  give  him  satisfac 
tion  in  parte  and  to  promise  him  full  satisfaction  for  the  same 
for  \vch  he  relyeth  upon  me  and  hereby  I  was  not  in  a  little 
danger  of  my  life  and  the  lives  of  my  wife  &  family  &  further 
I  have  thereby  lost  divers  goods  profits  &  advantages  of  trade 
with  the  said  Saggamore  &  all  his  company  <fc  have  undergone 
great  scandall  among  both  the  English  and  Indians  to  my 
dammage  five  hundred  pounds  starling,  the  same  of  them  to 
recover.  And  to  that  end  them  to  sue  arrest  impleadc  im 
prison  for  me  <fc  in  my  name  Witnesso  my  hand  &  scale  the 
last  day  of  May  Anno  Dai  1641. 


IN  THE  COURT  OF  4.  2.  1641. 

in  an  accon  of 

trespasse 
on  the   case. 


RICHARD   CH  A  DWELL  l  shipwright  plaintiff^ 

JOHN  SAMPSON  £  SAMUELL  BENNET  defend'  \        e*?a 

v  t\  11       T  n  />       y»/r 


The  said  Richard  Shadwell  complaineth  against  the  defend18 
for  that  wheras  Francis  Toby  of  Rotherhith  in  the  County  of 
Surrey  shipwright  in  or  about  June  1635  placed  the  said  John 
Sampson  &  the  said  John  Sampson  placed  himselfc  apprentice 
wth  the  plaintiffe  for  the  terme  of  five  yeares  then  next  ensu 
ing  the  said  Sampsons  Indenture  of  Apprenticeship  notwith 
standing  wch  were  not  [nirgibl?]  or  assigned  to  the  plaintiffe 

1  The  spelling  of  Chadwell's  name         This  case  may  be  remembered  ;  see 

is  doubtful  in  this  entry,  where  it  looks  p.  206,   ante.     Samuel  Bennet  was  a 

as  though  it  began  with  an  S.     Chad-  carpenter  of  Lynn. 
wi-11  is,  I  think,  the  more  correct. 


404  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

and  the  plaintiffe  refused  to  receive  him  for  lesse  than  five 
yeares  and  the  said  Sampson  consented  to  serve  the  plaintiffe 
five  yeares  rather  than  to  serve  John  Tucker  an  house  carpen 
ter  3  yeares  in  consideration  the  said  Plaintiffe  was  a  ship 
wright  <fe  in  that  art  promised  to  instruct  the  said  Sampson 
and  whereas  the  said  John  Sampson  served  the  plaintiffe  three 
yeares  of  the  said  five  yeares  but  in  an  ill  &  undutifull  man 
ner,  in  which  time  the  plaintiffe  by  himselfe  &  his  brother 
endcvoured  to  instruct  the  said  Sampson  in  the  art  of  a  ship 
wright  but  he  was  most  times  either  incapable  therof  or  un 
willing  to  it,  so  that  when  the  pltlffe  had  procured  Richard 
Hollingworth  of  Salem  Shipwright  to  teach  the  said  Sampson 
the  said  trade  he  refused  to  goe  dwell  with  the  said  Holling 
worth  but  chose  rather  to  goe  dwell  with  the  said  Samuell 
Bennet  an  House  carpenter  the  said  Bennet  having  before  un 
lawfully  slocked  [or  flocked  ?]  &  enticed  the  said  Sampson  to 
come  away  from  the  plaintiffe  to  serve  him  the   said   Bennet 
Whereupon  the  said  Sampson  being  an  ill  servant  before  & 
through  the  said  slocking  [or  flocking?]  &  enticeing  made  worse 
&  more  unwilling  the  said  plaintiffe  assigned  the  said  Sampson 
&  he  put  himselfe  apprentice  unto  the  said  Bennet  for  the  said 
last  two  yeares  of  the  said  five  yeares  for  wch  service  the  said 
Bennet  was  to  pay  the  pu  111.     And  the  said  Sampson  in  re 
compense  of  his  said  undutiful  service  &  other  things  was  to  pay 
the  plaintiffe  five  pounds.     And  the  plaintiffe  further  sheweth 
that  wheras  He  came  to  demand  the  said  11*  of  the  said  Ben- 
net  at  the  last  quarter  Court  in  Boston  &  was  then  unprovided 
for  his  defence  in  other  the  premises  Now  the  said  Richard 
Shad  well  complaineth  that  the  said  defend18  then  ioyned  to 
gether  not  onely  to  deceive  the  plaintiffe  of  the  said  111  and 
5*  but  to  damnify  him  further  than  they  had  formerly  the  one 
by  ill  &  undutifull  service  &  the  other  by  slocking  &  enticeing 
him  away  as  aforesaid  and  upon  this  ioyning  together  con 
trived  that  the  said  John  Sampson  should  bring  an  accon 
against  the  said  plaintiffe  upon  an  Indenture  to  wch  the  said 
plaintife  was  neither  party  nor  privy  and  first   [221]  for  not 
teaching  the  said  Sampson   the   said  trade  of  a   shipwright 
according  to  the  said  indenture  and  secondly  for  deteyning 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  405 

the  said  Sampson  in  service  longer  time  than  was  expressed 
in  the  said  indenture  <fe  make  some  other  false  allegations 
against  the  pltlffe  vf^  said  complotment  accordingly  the  said 
John  Sampson  fnllfilled  and  unduly  recovered  dammages 
against  the  plaintiffe  viz*  201  for  a  supposed  not  teaching  the 
said  Sampson  the  said  trade  of  a  shipwright  wheras  the  pi* 
did  by  all  rneanes  duly  endcvor  it  as  aforcsd  and  7*  10*  for  a 
supposed  overreckoning  in  his  time  of  service,  wheras  he  vol 
untarily  consented  to  serve  5  ycarcs  as  aforesaid  :  and  obteyned 
the  cancelling  of  the  said  five  pounds  upon  pretence  that  it  was 
wrested  from  him  onely  for  dammage  done  the  said  plaintiffe 
about  the  not  moaving  of  a  barke  whereas  it  was  for  divers 
other  ill  services  and  dammages.  And  hereby  the  plaintiffe 
saith  he  hath  suffered  in  his  good  name  &  estate  and  hath  bin 
damnified  501  and  therupon  he  brings  his  suit.  [8  —  4 
Thomas  Nicholls  testis,] 

The  peticon  of  some  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Hingham  that 
wheras  the  Cort  heretofore  gave  the  Towne  certaine  lands  for 
enlargement  at  Conihasset1  to  be  sett  out  by  certaine  com 
mittees  of  Dorchester  &  Rocksbury  in  the  order  therof  named 
the  said  lands  are  not  yet  sett  out  by  them  but  divided  by 
certaine  men  t>f  the  said  towne  of  Hingham  contrary  to  the 
said  order  &  contrary  to  the  liking  of  many  in  the  said  towne 
&  the  peticoners  therefore  beseech  the  Court  to  take  the  same 
into  their  consideration  &  to  give  direction  that  the  said  order 
be  pursued  as  it  was  first  intended.  [Is.] 

The  peticon  of  Anthony  Eames 2  that  wheras  he  hath  bin 
here  inhabitant  seven  yeares  or  therabouts  &  his  charge  hath 

1  The  meadows  at   Conihasset   (be-  interference  by  the  General  Court  in  a 
tween  Scituate  and  Hingham)  had  been  quarrel  among  the  people  of  Hingham 
given  to  the  townspeople  of  Hingham  as  to  whether  Allen  or  Eames  should  be 
by  the  General  Court,    May  13,   1640  the  captain  of  their  trainband.     Eames 
(Mass.  Col.  Rec.i  i.  290).  was  naturally  a  person  of  some  conse- 

2  Anthony    Earnes   will   be   remem-  quence  in  the  town,  having  been  rep- 
bered  by  any  one  who  took  the  trouble  resentative  many  times,   commissioner 
to  investigate  the  case  of  Bozoum  Allen  to  decide  small  cases,  and  lieutenant, 
(ante,   p.   172)   in   Winthrop   (vol.    ii.  before  he  was  chosen  captain. 

p.  221).     The  trouble  arose   from   the 


406  LECHFORVS  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

bin  great  &  done  some  service  for  the  Country  in  laying  out 
the  lyne  hetweene  this  Patent  <fe  Pliinmouth  he  was  also 
promised  accommodation  in  Conihasset  when  it  should  be  con 
ferred  on  Hingham,  and  having  [illegible]  &  a  teame  &  wants 
imploymcnt  for  them  desires  the  Court  to  consider  hereof 
that  he  may  have  a  proportionable  accommodation  in  Conni- 
hasset  as  the  Court  shall  please  to  appoint;  his  accommoda 
tion  already  being  but  small  &  except  it  be  enlarged  he  shall 
be  constrayned  to  looke  out  for  himself  e  els  where.  [0  — ] 

M*  Cuttou  saith  that  there  is  due  424*  or  therabouts  web 
should  have  ben  payed  22  April  last.  Charter  party  dated 
9  Jan:  39.  [2—] 

The  petition  of  certaine  of  the  Freemen  &  Inhabitants  of 
Hingham  l  that  they  intending  God  willing  a  ffishing  planta 
tion  at  Nantascct  may  be  instituted  into  a  company  according 
to  the  wisdome  of  the  Court  &  that  they  may  have  granted 
them  all  the  said  necke  of  land  called  Nantascet  from  sea  to 
sea  unto  the  head  of  straits  pond  wtb  all  ye  appurtenances  and 
that  yor  peticoners  may  for  the  same  good  end  &  purpose  be 
instituted  into  a  Company  with  such  power  &  limitations  as 
to  this  Court  shall  seerae  meet.  [Is.] 

Joseph  Armitage  of  Lynne  lets  a  shallop  of  3  tunnes  or 
therabouts  unto  Abraham  Robinson  Thomas  Ashley  &  Will™ 
Browne  of  Cape  Anne  fishermen2  till  29.  7.  <px  with  the  tack 
ling  &  appurtenences  &  they  are  to  pay  3l  in  money  or  good 

1  I  do  not  think  that  this  petition  tations    thither,    shall   have   land    and 

was    granted    in    precisely    the    fona  meadows  upon  Nanta.sket  Neck,"  etc. 

wherein   it    here   appears.     But   under  There  is  no  patent  for  a  company  to  be 

date  2d  June,  1(541,  the  Court  ordered  found,  however,  in  the  Records. 

"that  a  plantation  for  the  furthering  of  2  We    cannot    easily   identify   these 

fishing  shall  fourth  with  bee  set  up  at  fishermen,    and    perhaps    it    is    hardly 

Nantascot,  £  that  all  the  neck  to  the  necessary  to  do  so.     Abraham  Robin - 

end    of    the     furthest    beach    towards  son  is  found  at  Gloucester  some  years 

Hingham,  where  the  tide  over  Moweth,  after  this  mention,  and  Thomas  Ashley 

shall  belong  to  it ;  and  that  such  of  the  may  be  the  man  of  that  name  who  was 

present  inhabitants  of  Hingham  as  will  in  Maine  1654  ;  but  even  if  this  be  the 

follow  fishing  &  will  remove  their  habi-  case,  not  much  is  gained. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  407 

&  merchantable  dry  fish  to  the  said  Joseph  at  the  end  of  the 
said  tcnue  therefore  &  redeliver  the  said  shallop  wtb  the  same 
appurtenences  at  Lynne. 


A  petieori  for  Timothy  Hawkins  4.  4,  1641. 

The  humble  peticon  of  BARNABAS  DAVIS 

Shcwcth  that  wheras  the  Court  hath  ordered  me  to  account 
to  John  Woodcocke  &  to  attach  the  cattle  that  was  Willm 
Woodcocks  as  in  a  new  accou  I  humbly  conceive  that  the 
vcrdit  of  the  Jury  was  given  as  upon  a  crosso  suit  ioyntly 
comming  to  hearing  together  wch  in  effect  one  of  the  Jury 
testified  in  Court  for  he  said  that  their  meaning  was  that  I 
should  be  allowed  what  should  appeare  due  to  me  upon  a  just 
account  as  well  for  Wm  as  John  Woodcocke  and  [222]  with 
all  due  submission  to  yor  worps  for  I  thinke  yor  worships  have 
bin  fully  informed  through  my  wcaknesse  in  my  cause  &  that 
your  worships  doe  not  yet  so  clearely  understand  my  cause  & 
it  so  ncarcly  conccrncs  me  that  the  greatest  parte  of  my  estate 
lyeth  in  it,  the  cattle  arre  taken  out  of  my  possession  I  being 
a  servant  accountant  am  not  allowed  my  charges  &  reason 
able  expences  I  demand  64l  108  10d  besides  dammages  halfe  of 
the  said  moneys  is  my  meerc  expences  &  the  cattle  will  not 
satisfie  me  I  verily  believe.  In  tender  consideration  wherof 
I  beseech  yor  worships  in  yor  grave  wisdomes  &  pittyfull  com 
passion  towards  me  to  be  pleased  but  to  let  my  account  the 
auditors  joynt  certificat,  the  case  thereupon  &  the  opinion  of 
one  of  the  Auditors  on  the  whole  matter  be  read  either  in  pub- 
licke  or  private  before  yor  worp8  and  thereupon  to  consider 
whether  it  be  not  fitt  &  equal!  that  seeing  I  am  putt  off  from 
hearing  at  this  Court  that  the  cattle  be  attached  from  M' 
Holyokc  &  delivered  upon  security  to  me  till  the  cause  be 
heard  And  so  I  leave  myselfe  &  my  matters  at  yor  worps  feet 
to  be  at  God's  dispose. 


408  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK, 

The  petition   of   RALFE    WoRY1    White    tanner    of   Leather 
dwelling  at  Charlestowne. 

1.  He  prayeth  the  Court  that  no  goates  might  be    killed 
under  two  yeares  old  except  kids  by  the  butchers. 

2.  That  the  butchers  &  others  that  take  off  skinns  might 
be    enioyned  not  to  slawter  cut  or  rent  the    skinnes    under 
some  paine  of  forfeiture. 

3.  That  Tanners  may  tanne  no  goat  buck  doe  nor  moose 
skinnes  nor  white  tanners  tane  no  cowe  nor  oxe  hide  under 
paine  of  some  forfeiture. 

4.  That  some  Officers  be  appointed  to  view  all  leather  made 
in  the  Country  before  it  be  sold  or  put  to  use. 

5.  That  none  may  buy  skinnes  killed  in  the  Country  but 
those  that  dresse  them  heere. 

M*  William  Hooke  2  of  Accamenticus. 
My  John  Underbill  a  peticon. 

Wheras  we  understand  that  Mf  William  Hooke  of  Accamen 
ticus  intcndeth  shortly  a  voyage  into  England  we  have  thought 
good  to  accompany  him  wtb  this  our  testimoniall  that  he  hath 
borne  himselfe  in  this  Countrey  in  all  things  we  knowe  of  hon 
estly  soberly  fairely  &  therefore  with  us  he  hath  this  esteeme 
to  be  a  sober  discreat  &  religious  man  &  for  such  we  recom 
mend  him  to  those  whome  it  may  concerne.  [1  — ] 

The  peticon  of  CAPTAINE  JOHN  UNDERBILL  3 

Shewcth  that  he  humbly  acknowledged  himselfe  to  have 
ben  a  very  greivous  offender  against  God  &  this  Common- 

1  Ralph  Woorey,  leather-dresser,  is     shortly,   for  he  was  representative  in 
noted  in  Wyman,  but  nothing  to  speak     1643  as  well  ns  in  1637,  and  died  in 
of  is  known  of  him.     No  mention  of     this  country  in   1654. 

the  petition   is    to    be    found    in    the  8  The   sentence   of    banishment   for 

Record,  Captain   John  Underbill  was  repealed 

2  Mr.  William  Hooke  was  not  the  June  2,  1641,  the  session  of  the  Court, 
minister  of  that  name,  but  the  brother  I  suppose,  at  which  this  petition  was 
of  Francis  Hooke,  of  Kittcry.     He  must  presented. 

have     returned     from     England     very 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.          409 

wealth  and  thereby  hath  received  severe  censures  past  upon 
him  both  by  the  Church  <fc  this  Court  Notwithstanding  as  he 
hopeth  the  God  of  heaven  will  give  him  more  true  repentance 
&  thereupon  some  more  comfortable  forgiveness  in  his  due 
time  <fe  the  Church  of  God  hath  bin  pleased  upon  his  humble 
&  hearty  contrition  &  confession  of  his  abominations  to  loose 
him  from  his  deserved  bonds  so  though  unworthy  of  the  least 
favor  from  you  he  humbly  beseecheth  this  honoble  Court  to  be 
pleased  to  remit  his  civill  censure  by  him  rashly  foolishly  & 
unadvisedly  incurd  And  that  you  would  be  pleased  to  restore 
this  Distressed  petitioner  to  his  former  libertys  ffor  wcb  humble 
request  he  should  have  in  person  awayted  this  honobl°  Court 
but  that  he  is  now  called  asyde  upon  other  lawfull  occasions 
at  Aqucdney  as  it  is  well  knowne  <fec. 

[223]    The   humble  pet  icon   of  RICHARD    PARKER1    of  Boston 

merchant, 

Sheweth  that  wheras  some  powder  being  found  heretofore 
in  the  hands  of  certaine  Indians  yor  pcticoner  was  examined 
whether  he  had  sold  any  powder  to  any  Indian,  <fe  if  lie  had 
how  much,  he  answered  and  confessed  he  had,  once  before 
that  time  sold,. about  4  ounces  of  powder  to  the  Saggamore 
Aggawam.  Now  forasmuch  as  this  sale  of  powder  to  the  said 
Aggawam  was  above  two  yeares  since  when  yor  peticoner  was 
but  a  new  commer  &  not  knoweing  the  orders  of  the  Country 
[&  one  to  whome  as  this  peticoner  hath  heard  the  Country 
had  some  confidence  in  &  who  was  in  the  service  against 
the  Pequids  and  continually  converseth  wth  us  as  a  friend  & 
to  whome  some  liberty  of  fowling  with  his  peece  hath  bin 
granted  by  the  Court  as  this  peticoner  hath  heard, —  all  be 
tween  these  brackets  crossed  out.]  and  that  was  yor  peticoners 
onely  offence  in  this  kinde  &  in  so  smale  a  quantity. 

In  tender  consideration  of  the  premises  yor  pcticoner  hum 
bly  prayeth  this  honohl°  Cort  to  be  pleased  to  remit  the  said 

1  Exactly   when   this   sentence   was  General  Court,  and  at  that  meeting  (at 

pronounced   I  do  not   know.      In    De-  which  I  suppose  this  petition  was  pre- 

cember,     1640,     Richard     Parker    was  sented)  his  fine  was  lowered  from  101  to 

respited  until  the  next  meeting  of  the  10s. 


410  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

offence  unto  him  promising  to  be  henceforth  so  careful  that 
neither  he  nor  any  of  his  shall  at  any  time  sell  any  powder  or 
ammunition  to  the  Indians  without  direction  &  command  So 
restes  yor  obliged  Richard  Parker.  [1  —  6.  4.  9-41] 

The    humble  peticon    of   SERGEANT    EDWARD    MELLOWES  a   of 
Charlestowne, 

Sheweth  that  wheras  about  10  or  11  yeares  since  his  father 
Aft  Abraham  Mellowes  at  the  motion  of  the  honoble  M*  Hum- 
frey  did  put  into  the  Common  Stocke  fifty  pounds  of  lawfull 
money  of  England  he  promising  that  the  peticoners  said  father 
or  his  heires  or  assignes  should  have  a  valuable  proportion  of 
land  in  this  Jurisdiction  to  at  least  500  acres  of  land  for  the 
same. 

And  whereas  yor  peticoncr  is  heirc  &  assignee  of  his  said 
ffather  deceased,  <fc  hath  yet  obteyned  towards*  satisfaction  of 
the  premises  onely  200  acres  in  one  place  where  no  more 
can  be  had  &  which  is  no  valuable  proportion  for  the  said  501. 
In  tender  consideration  of  the  premises  yor  peticoner  humbly 
praycth  the  Court  to  be  pleased  to  grant  him  the  other  800 
acres  together  in  some  other  place  So  restes  yor  obliged  Ed 
Mellowes.  [1 ;  4.  9.  41] 

The  peticon  of  WILL"   SAVILL2  of  Cambridge  joy ner 

Sheweth  that  wheras  he  did  worke  heretofore  at  Cambridge 
for  Mr.  Nathaniell  Eaton  and  for  parte  of  this  peticoners  pay 
he  received  by  apprizement  one  cowe  &  a  steere  calfe  for  251 
wch  then  was  51  overvalued  at  least  &  out  of  wch  he  payd  91 
to  workmen  in  money  besides  then  presently  cattle  fell  more 
&  so  have  done  ever  since  and  now  they  are  not  worth  above 

1  T\vo  hundred  acres  were  granted  to  ham's  statement  that  he  was  a  partner 
the  heirs  of  Abraham  Mellows  by  the  in  the  Company  for  501.  Edward  Mel- 
Court  to  which  the  petition  was  pre-  lows  was  freeman  before  his  father 
seated.  Abraham  Mellows,  with  his  (March  4,  1634),  and  was  afterwards 
wife  and  child,  were  admitted  to  the  constable,  town  clerk,  selectman,  etc. 
church  in  1633;  he  was  freeman  May  He  died  in  1650. 

14,  1634,  and  died,  Savage  says,  before  2  William  Savill  cannot  be  found  in 

1639.     This  passage  confirms  Frothing-  Savage. 


LECH  FORD'S  MANUSCRIPT    NOTE-BOOK.  411 

121  \ych  another  bull  calfe  increased  having  bin  kept  about  a 
yeare  so  that  yor  peticoner  is  damnifyed  13  besides  2*  10s  for 
the  keeping  of  them  since  wch  amounts  to  in  all  to  151  10s. 
In  tender  consideration  whcrof  yor  peticoner  humbly  prayeth 
he  may  be  relieved  in  the  premises  according  to  equity  against 
the  said  Mr.  Eaton  &  his  estate  hcere  by  the  order  of  this  Court 
and  that  especially  because  the  apprisement  aforesaid  was 
made  not  to  this  peticoner,  but  halfe  a  ycare  before  for  pay 
ments  to  other  men  &  he  was  faigne  to  take  these  though  so 
much  too  deere  because  he  apprehended  not  any  other  way  to 
be  satisfyed.  So  rcstes.  [Is.] 


Edwards  of  Charlestowne  makes  a  peticon  against 
Harmn.n  Garret  &  the  two  apprizcrs  Steven  Fozdike  <fc  Robert 
Nash  for  prizing  the  house  too  deere  401  at  least  &  bound 
in  200*  to  pay  120*  for  a  house  &  an  acre  of  ground  or 
therabouts. 

The  peticon  of  WILLM  BUCKNUM  of  Charlestowne  carpenter, 

Sheweth  that  wheras  his  mother  in  Law  the  widdow  Wil 
kinson  kcepes  away  from  him  his  sonne  John  Biicknum 
against  the  good  will  of  this  peticoner  wch  is  like  to  be  a  breach 
of  peace  betwecne  us,  Yor  peticoner  humbly  prayeth  the  wid 
dow  Wilkinson  may  be  ordered  to  rcdelivcr  to  this  peticoner 
his  said  child.2 

[224]    The  peticon*  of  the  Freemen  of  Cambridge 

Sheweth  that  wheras  there  are  some  differences  betwcene 
some  neighbor  towncs  &  ourselves  about  wood  &  timber  & 

1  For  this  matter   see  pp.  176,  ante,  eighteen  years.     William  Bueknam,  in 
&  225,  pnst.  his  will,  gave  a  smaller  fortune  to  his 

2  That    William    Bueknam    married  son  John  than  to  his  children  hy  his 
(first   wife)    a    daughter    of    Prudence  second  wife,  partly  on   account  of  his 
Wilkinson   may  be   seen   in    Wyman's  infirmity,   and    partly   because  he    was 
Charlc.st.mni.     Savage    goes    on    to    say  taken  hy  his  grandmother,    as  appears 
(partly  hy  conjecture)  that  hy  this  wife  hy  this  passage  in  the  Note-book. 

he  had  a  son  John,  whom  (or  else  his  8  It  was  in  consequence  of  this  peti- 
son)  he  thinks  is  the  one  spoken  of  tion  that  the  Court  appointed  (June  2, 
by  Sewall  as  havipg  been  dumb  for  1641)  Mr.  Thomas  Mayhew  and  John 


412  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

about  ccrtaine  lands  on  the  south  of  Charles  river  wch  we  con 
ceive  belong  to  our  bounds  for  want  of  explanation  of  the 
order  of  Court  therof,  and  by  reason  of  certaine  lands  claymed 
from  us  unequally  as  we  conceive  by  the  running  of  a  lyne 
betweenc  us  &  Watertowne  We  humbly  crave  of  this  hon 
oured  Court  that  for  the  settlement  of  peece  &  quiet  among 
us  you  would  be  pleased  to  heare  our  deputyes  to  the  particu- 
lares  aforesaid  <fc  therupon  to  take  such  good  order  as  to  *yor 
wol.Ps  siian  scenic  to  stand  wtb  equity.  [1  — ] 

The  peticon  of  ROGER  TOLL   servant  to  M*  HENRY   WEBB1 

of  Boston 

Sheweth  that  wheras  about  two  yeares  since  yor  peticoner 
being  a  new  commer  not  knowing  the  Orders  of  the  Country 
sould  certaine  powder  to  the  quantity  of  but  about  2*  unto 
some  of  Cusshannequins  his  master  not  knowing  of  the  said 
sale  till  afterwards  The  peticoner  humbly  prayeth  this 
honoble  Court  to  be  pleased  for  this  his  first  offence  in  this 
kinde  to  remit  the  same  unto  him  promising  hereafter  to  be 
so  carefull  that  neither  for  himselfe  nor  any  other  he  will  sell 
or  deliver  powder  or  munition  to  any  Indian  wtbout  order  or 
command  I  reste  yor  obliged.  [1  —  rec  in  corn] 

TJie  peticon  of  THOMAS  MAKEPEACE2  of  Dorchester  gent 

Sheweth  that  wheras  he  bought  a  ccrtaine  house  &  farme 
of  200  acres  of  land  wherof  some  is  inclosed  lying  on  the  east 
parte  of  M?  Haynes  his  farme  neare  dedham  of  Mf  Crowe 

Bridge  to  adjust  the   differences  hero  Toll   was    his   apprentice,     as    Savage 

spoken  of;   "and  if  they  cannot  agree,  thinks. 

they  are  to  choose  a  third  man  to  2  Thomas  Makepeace  came  to  Dor- 
settle  things."  chester  with  his  family  in  1036.  He 
1  Henry  Webb  was  a  merchant  who  was  there  a  person  of  consideration 
had  his  house  and  shop,  I  suppose,  one  (although  I  do  not  find  that  he  ever 
or  two  doors  bt-low  Captain  Keayne's,  on  held  office),  being  almost  invariably 
what  is  now  State  Street.  He  came  referred  to  by  the  title  of  Mr.  In 
to  Boston  1G37,  and  died  September  response  to  this  petition,  the  Court 
7,  1660,  leaving  much  to  Harvard  appointed  a  committee  of  three  to  view 
College  in  the  way  of  land  that  is  and  settle  "Mr.  Makepeace  his  farme  of 
now  of  the  greatest  value.  Roger  two  hundred  acres." 


LECHFORD'S    MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  413 

sometime  of  Charlestowne  as  it  is  layd  out.  Yor  petitioner 
desireth  this  honobl°  Cort  to  be  pleased  to  coniirmo  the  same 
unto  him  by  order  of  this  Court,  [ik?.] 

The  humble  peticon  of  ROBERT  CooKE1  of  Charlestowne 

Sheweth  that  wheras  the  Country  was  indebted  to  his 
iTathcr  401  im(l  for  satisfaccon  thcrof  this  peticoncr  was 
ordered  to  goc  to  the  Treasurer  for  payment  M?  Treasurer 
assigned  this  peticoncr  a  bill  to  be  payd  by  Lynne  and  they 
would  pny  him  no  otherwise  but  in  corne  at  4s  p  b.  &  he  hath 
received  in  parte  120  bushells  at  4s  p  b.  and  the  rest  he  must 
aecept  from  them  at  the  same  rate.  The  peticoner  humbly 
prcyeth  allowance  of  the  Court  such  as  you  shall  thinkc  fitt 
corne  having  passed  at  33  p  b.  &  much  to  be  bought  under. 
[0,?.] 

John  Pollard  2  of  Boston  in  New  England  merchant  makes 
a  letter  of  Attorney  unto  Josuah  Hughes  of  Roxbury  ironmon 
ger  and  George  Pollard  of  Duxbury  in  N  England  miller  to 
receive  all  debts  etc.  4.  19.  41. 


A  Commission  to  John  Wcbbe  ais  [Wa?ifc]  3  of  Boston  and 
his  company  to  trade  &  doe  their  businesse  at  the  Isle  of 
Sables  &  to  passe  in  the  burke  Endevor  of  Salem  wherof  is 
Master  Joseph  Grafton.  4.  21.  41.  [3—4] 

1  There  is  some  little  doubt  in  tho  3  "John  "Webb  als  \]il«  »/•]  "  must  he 
pages  of  Savage  as  to  whether  the  name  "John  Kvered  als  "Webb"  (nntc,  p.  138). 
of  this  man  were  Richard  or  Robert,  one  I  know  nothing  more  of  his  ocwipatiau 
name  being  found  in  the  list  of  freemen,  than  is  contained  in  the  note  on   that 
and  the  other  in  that  of  church-mem-  page.      The    Colonial    Record    has    no 
hers.     In  the  Mass.  Col.  Rec.,  however,  notice  of  this  commission.     The  ketch 
is  record   of  an  order  that   12(i.   in  a  "Endeavour,"   it  may  be  remembered, 
bushel  should   be  paid  to  Mr.  Robert  was  hired  of  Joseph  Grafton  by  John 
Cooke  to  make  up  for  the  depreciation  of  Cogan  and  Thomas  Owen  until  April, 
corn,  amounting  to  40*.  1641  (see  p.  202,  antr).     This  commis- 

2  It  would  seem  as  if  George  Pollard  sion  is   in   June  of  the  same  year,  by 
were  related  to  John,  though   the  fact  which  time  the  voynge  to  Virginia  and 
is  not  noted  by  Savage,  who  says  little  back  there  spoken  of  was,  we  may  hope, 
of  either  George  or  John  ;  for  whom  see  successfully  accomplished. 

p.  175,  ante. 


414  LECH  FORD'S   MANUSCRIPT   NOTE-BOOK. 

John  Sampson  of  London  merchant  makes  a  generall  letter 
of  Attorney  unto  David  Yale l  merchant  now  resident  in 
Boston  in  N  E.  4.  21.  41.  [2s.] 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  wheras  I  Elizabeth 
Glover  of  Cambridge  in  N  E  widdowe  &  trustee  of  the  last  will 
&  testament  of  M*  Josse  Glover  deceased  doc  hereby  for  good 
considerations  me  thereunto  moving  for  and  in  parte  perform 
ance  of  the  said  last  will  &  testament  grant  assigne  and  sett 
over  unto  William  Stibbins  of  Boston  in  N  E  gent  and  [Want] 
of  [W«»A-]  in  N  E  aforesaid  all  that  my  reversion  after  the  de 
cease  of  Mra.  Anne  Glover  of  London  widdow  of  and  in  all  those 
lands  &  tenements  lying  in  Ratcliff  within  the  mannor  of  Steb- 
bonheath  in  the  County  of  Midd  with  the  appurtenances  settled 
upon  me  by  my  said  late  husband  To  have  &  to  hold  the  said 
Reversion  <fc  premises  and  all  <fc  singulare  the' premises  wth 
the  appurtenances  unto  the  said  W  S  &  [Waw£]  and  —  [ends 
thus  ;  the  whole  paragraph  is  crossed  out.~\ 

[225]    To  the  right  ivor11  the  Governor  $  Assistants 

The   bill   of   Complaint   of  JOHN   EDWARDS   of   Charlestowne 

(/unsmith 

Shewcth  that  wheras  by  agreement  betweene  Harman 
Garret  of  Charlestowne  aforesaid  Gunsmith  &  this  Complain 
ant2  in  writing  made  upon  the  17th  day  of  the  seventh 
moneth  Anno  Dili  1G40  the  said  Harman  was  to  sell  unto 
this  Complainant  his  house  in  Charlestowne  aforesaid  for  such 
reasonable  price  as  should  be  agreed  on  by  foure  men  indiffer 
ently  to  be  chosen  betweene  them  the  said  Harman  taking 

i  David   Yale   (thought  by  some  to  Boston    Town   Record   or    the   Book  of 

be  the  father  of  Elihu  Yah-)  "came  to  Possessions;  and   from  the  mention  in 

New   England    with   his   father-in-law,  Massachusetts  Colonial  Record  (vol.  ii.) 

Governor  Eaton,   in   1637."     He  lived  he  might  have  lived  anywhere, 

at    Boston    chiefly,    I    should   imagine,  2  The  agreement  here  referred  to  be- 

although  he  owned  land  at  New  Haven,  tween  Garret  and  Edwards  may  be  found 

and    quitted    the    country    in     1652.  set  down  at  length  earlier  in  the  Note- 

There   is   no   mention   of    him    in    the  book  (ante,  p.  176). 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  415 

advantage  of  this  Complaynants  unexperiencednesse  in  build 
ings  pressed  him  to  buy  the  same  house  before  the  said  terme 
in  the  said  agreement  mentioned  was  ended  and  for  the  ap- 
prizcmcnt  therof  pcrs waded  this  Complainant  that  two  men 
were  sufficient  to  performc  the  same,  and  when  this  Complain 
ant  had  named  for  him  two  men  to  wit  Stephen  Fossedike  and 
Barnabas  Davis  of  Charlcstowne  the  said  llarnian  Garret  said 
that  Barnabas  Davis  was  not  skilled  in  matters  of  building  but 
much  commended  the  said  Steven  Fossedike  saying  that  he 
was  an  honest  man  and  a  member  of  the  Church  and  one  that 
helped  build  the  said  house  <fe  one  whome  he  might  well  put 
this  matter  unto  &  to  him  onely  &  that  the  said  Harman  Gar 
ret  thought  to  make  choice  of  him  for  himselfe  &  so  in  effect 
he  made  choice  of  him  the  said  Steven  Fossedike  as  well  as  of 
the  other  arbitrator  Robert  Nash  and  this  was  no  indifferent 
choice  &  but  of  two  men  wheras  by  the  said  agreement  the 
same  was  to  be  referred  to  foure  men  indifferently  to  be  chosen 
To  w*11  two  Arbitrators  the  price  of  the  said  house  being  re 
ferred  they  the  said  Arbitrators  were  to  sett  downe  what  they 
esteemed  the  said  house  <fc  some  other  things  to  be  worth  at 
that  present  to  be  sold  to  any  person  one  or  other  &  neither 
this  Complainant  nor  the  said  Harman  Garret  was  to  give  any 
private  informacon  unto  the  said  Arbitrators  or  either  of  them 
aparte  till  the  said  Arbitration  made  notwithstanding  the  said 
Harman  Garret  did  give  one  of  the  said  Arbitrators  private 
information  of  something  touching  the  premises  wherof  this 
CompP  had  no  notice  to  answer  the  same  before  the  said 
arbitration  delivered  up.  And  this  Complaynant  sheweth  that 
upon  the  said  undue  proceedings  the  said  Arbitrators  prized 
the  said  house  <fe  an  acre  of  ground  or  therabouts  at  120*  or 
thereabouts  wch  was  to  deere  almost  by  halfe  as  the  state  of 
things  stood  at  the  time  of  the  said  arbitration  made  &  yet 
doe  stand  Notwithstanding  the  said  Harman  Garret  presently 
upon  the  said  arbitration  g)tt  this  Complainant  with  a  suerty 
to  enter  into  bond  of  a  great  penalty  to  pay  the  said  1201  to 
him  the  said  Garret  in  some  shorte  time  to  come  In  tender 
consideration  wherof  the  said  Complaynant  prayeth  that  the 
said  Harman  Garret  mav  be  called  to  answere  the  premises  & 


416  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

to  bring  in  the  said  bond  into  the  Court  and  either  to  take  the 
said  house  &  premises  againe  or  els  that  an  indifferent  ap- 
prizement  may  be  made  therof  anew  by  order  of  the  Court  & 
finally  to  stand  to  such  order  in  the  premises  as  to  yor  wor 
ships  shall  seeme  to  stand  wth  equity  &  good  Conscience  &c. 
[5-0] 

[226]  1  Mathew  Allen  of  Hartford  upon  the  river  of  Con- 
necticot  in  America  merchant  otherwise  called  Matherum 
Allen  nup  de  Bramtom  in  Com  Devon  infra  Regn™  Angli6 
ac  mine  de  Hartford  sup  Conectacott  River  infra  Nova  Anglia 
mrcator  was  summoned  to  answere  Thomas  Harwood  and 
James  Gamon  of  Barnstable  in  the  County  of  Devon  aforesaid 
merchants  in  a  plea  of  debt  Wherupon  the  said  Thomas  & 
James  say  that  the  said  Mathew  by  his  writing  obligatorie 
under  his  hand  and  scale  dated  the  fourth  day  of  June  in  the 
sixteenthe  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  King 
Charles  Anno  Dni  1640  did  acknowledge  himself e  to  owe 
unto  the  said  Thomas  and  James  the  summe  of  two  thousand 
pounds  of  good  and  lawfull  money  of  England  to  be  payd  unto 
them  when  he  should  be  therunto  required,  wherof  the  said 
Thomas  &  James  acknowledge  they  are  satisfied  of  the  summe 
of  five  hundred  seven  pounds  fifteen  shillings  &  nine  pence, 
Notwithstanding  the  said  Mathew  hath  not  payd  the  residue  of 
the  said  two  thousand  pounds  that  is  to  say  1492  —  4  —  3d 
unto  the  said  Thomas  &  James  or  cither  of  them  although  he 
hath  bin  thereunto  required  at  Hartford  and  Windsore  upon 
the  river  of  Connecticot  aforesaid.  And  they  say  that  the 
said  debt  groweth  thus  that  the  said  Mathew  bound  himsclfe 
in  the  said  obligation  of  the  summe  of  two  thousand  pounds 
dated  as  abovesaid  wth  condicon  that  if  the  said  Mathew  Allen 
his  executors  administrators  and  assignes  should  well  and 
truly  pay  observe  performe  fulfill  &  keepe  all  &  singulars  the 
payments  grants  Covn18  condicons  &  agreements  conteyned 

1  It   \vas   in   regard   to   this  matter  the  rest  of  the  ma11*'*  at  Coneetacot,  to 

that  two  or  three  days  later  (Oct.   7,  send  hack  the  prisoner  Mathew  Allen 

1641)  the  General  f'ourt  ordered  "that  or  satisfy  the  debt  and  damage"  (cf.  p. 

a  letter  shall  bee  sent  to  Mr.  Ilaynes  &  200,  ante). 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSC1UPT  NOTE-BOOK.  417 

specifyed  &  declared  in  certaine  Articles  &  Covenants  of  agree 
ment  indented  made  by  &  betwcenc  the  abovenamed  Thomas  & 
James  of  the  one  partc  <fc  the  said  Mathcw  of  the  other  parte 
and  bearing  the  same  date  wth  the  said  obligation  wch  on  the 
partc  of  him  the  said  Mathcw  his  exectrsadmr9  or  assignes  were 
to  be  observed  performed  fulKilled  &  kept  according  to  the 
tenor  forme  £  effect  of  the  said  Articles  and  Covenants  of 
agreem*  then  the  said  obligation  was  to  be  voyd  ct  of  none 
effect  or  els  to  be  &  remaine  in  full  power  strength  force  effect 
&  vertne  And  the  said  Thomas  &  James  doe  indeed  say  that 
the  said  Mathcw  did  break  one  of  the  Covenants  or  Articles 
in  the  said  Articles  &  Covenants  of  Agreement  specifyed  in  that 
the  said  Mathcw  upon  the  day  of  delivery  of  the  cattle  in  the 
said  Articles  mentioned  did  not  for  security  of  payment  further 
give  and  deliver  unto  Philip  Gibbe  the  factor  or  assignee  of 
the  said  Thomas  &  James  a  good  <fc  lawfull  bond  or  obliga 
tion  whcrin  the  said  Mathcw  with  two  such  sufficient  sucrties 
as  the  said  factor  or  assignee  should  accept  of  should  be  bound 
in  the  summo  of  20001  that  the  said  Mathew  his  [227]  ex 
ecutors  or  assigncs  should  pay  or  satisfic  the  full  summo  and 
so  much  money  reckoned  as  the  said  cattle  should  amount 
unto,  wch  according  to  the  said  articles  &  covenants  of  agreem1 
was  the  summc  of  9941  5s  viz*  for  97  head  of  cattle  within 
tvro  moneths  next  after  the  day  of  arrivall  of  the  ship  in 
the  said  articles  mentioned  at  Boston  in  New  England  or 
within  2  moneths  after  the  arrivall  aforesaid  to  drawc  good 
bills  of  exchange  for  payment  thereof  and  the  same  to  be  payd 
upon  40  daycs  sight  as  in  the  said  articles  is  expressed  accord 
ing  as  the  said  Mathew  was  bound  by  the  said  articles  &  bound 
thereupon  to  doe  Wherupon  the  said  Thomas  &  James  bring 
their  suit  aforesaid  for  the  said  1492  —  48  —  3d.  [5111  10s.  - 
31  14*.  3^.  =  507i  15s.  3d.  —  5111  10s.  Qd.  +  4921  4s.  3d.  = 
10001  Os.  Or?.  G  —  8.] 

Boston  Lynne  Salem  Ipswich  Rowley  Newberry  Salisbury 
Hampton  Charlestowne  Cambridge  Waterton  Concorde  Sud- 
bury  Dedham  Roxbury  Dorchester  Wey mouth  &  Hingham. 
[17  warrto  about  cotton.  5.  8.  41  @  Is.  5ti] 

27 


418  LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Thomas  Allen  of  Barnstablc  in  N  E  y  agreeth  wth  John 
Eells l  of  Dorchester  in  N  E  planter  for  70*  in  hand  payd  to 
convey  unto  the  said  John  Eells  &  his  heires  &  assignes  for 
ever  one  house  &  garden  wth  the  appurtenances  in  Earnstablc 
in  the  County  of  Devon  lying  in  Bowport  streete  in  the  occu 
pation  of  Phillip  Cole  &  Lewis  Grove  or  their  assignes  all  rents 
&  revenues  rcvertions  thcrof  after  the  lives  of  the  said  Phillip 
&  Lewis  &  all  Writings  Leases  &  counterparts,  and  to  he  in 
possession  of  the  rent  presently  And  to  make  any  assurance 
wthin  7  yearcs  And  to  be  bound  to  these  articles  in  1501,  and 
that  he  shall  receive  20i  due  to  me  at  the  decease  of  my  ffather- 
in  law  John  Markc  of  Bramton  in  Devon  y.  of  his  heires  exe 
cutors  &c  or  of  Edward  Langdon  of  Branton  in  the  County 
aforesaid  y  &  he  is  to  receive  the  bond  of  my  brother  Richard 
Allen  of  Branton  aforesaid  yeoman  And  a  letter  of  Attorney 
for  the  same. 


JOHN  MOSES  2  of  Duxbury  shipwright  plt    "j  in  an  action 

THOMAS  KEYSER  &  JOHN  GUY  of  Lynne   !•        trespasse 

defend1*  J    upon  the  ca 


JOHN  MOSES  2  of  Duxbury  shipwright  pu    "}  in  an  action  of 

trespasse 
upon  the  case. 

The  said  John  Moses  Complayncth  against  the  said  defend 
ants  for  y*  wheras  in  or  about  the  third  moncth  Anno  Dni 
1640  they  did  retcyne  the  said  Complaynant  to  make  for  them 
a  pinnace  in  forme  as  followeth  that  is  to  say  thirty  two  footc 
by  the  keele  and  live  foote  and  halfe  in  the  hould  deepe  to  be 
made  proportionable  according  to  the  same  with  a  decke  and 
to  be  seeled  throughout  the  said  pinnace  and  to  be  finished 

1  It  might  seem  from  this  as  if  John  attorney,  etc.,  may  be  found  at  great 
Eells  was  about  to  return  to  England,  length  post,  p.  229  el  seqq. 
This  may  possibly  have  been  the  case.  2  Of  John  Moses  and  John  Guy  I 
He  is,  however,  heard  of  by  Savage  can  find  no  mention  at  all  in  Savage, 
at  Newbury  in  1645  as  a  "beehive-  Thomas  Keyser  has  obtained  a  species 
maker,"  and  his  death  is  by  him  set  of  fame  through  his  mention  by  Win- 
down  for  1653.  The  name  of  Thomas  throp  (vol.  ii.  p.  231),  where  are  related 
Allyn,  of  Barnstable,  may  be  found  in  certain  operations  of  one  Smith  and  his 
the  church  register,  though  not  else-  mate  Thomas  Keyser  in  a  voyage  under- 
where  to  my  knowledge.  An  inden-  taken  by  them  to  the  coast  of  Guinea 
ture  to  the  .same  effect  as  the  above,  after  negroes.  Keyser  was  a  seafaring 
together  with  articles  of  agreement  man  of  whom  little  other  remembrance 
between  the  same  parties  and  a  letter  of  was  preserved. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  419 

the  last  of  August  then  next  following  for  which  they  the  said 
defend*9  promised  to  pay  the  said  plain tiffe  40*  and  such 
other  charges  as  are  mentioned  in  the  writing:  of  agreement 
therof  at  the  finishing  of  the  said  pinnace  under  the  hands  of 
both  the  said  defendants  and  the  said  pi*  And  the  said  plaint i tie 
indeed  saith  that  the  said  defend*9  were  by  agreement  also 
bctwocno  them  the  said  def*  <t  pi4  to  deliver  to  the  said  pi 
divers  materialls  towards  the  finishing  the  said  pinnace  hy  the 
day  aforesaid  appointed  in  the  said  agreement  but  they  the  said 
dofen*8  fay  led  therein  so  that-  the  same  pinnace  could  not  be 
finished  by  the  said  day  appointed  through  the  default  of  the 
said  defendants  neither  were  they  ready  to  satislie  the  said 
plaintiffe  for  the  said  pinnace  when  it  should  be  finished  as 
was  agreed  as  aforesaid  But  [228]  the  said  plaintiffe  was 
forced  to  sell  the  said  pinnace  away  to  Captainc  Edward 
Gibons  in  the  third  moneth  last  and  to  finish  the  same  for 
him  whereby  the  said  pinnace  lay  upon  the  plaintiffes  hands 
in  building  from  the  said  last  of  August  Anno  Dili  1640  till 
the  midst  of  the  said  third  moucth  last  being  9  moneths  To 
the  Dammagc  of  the  said  pll  W  19s  lld. 

The  said  p!t  received  in  pitch  okhum  &  nayles        .     .  5*      3s. 

And  in  rnorrey  or  moneys  worth 0  10 

And  in  pitch  &  okhum  more 

And  in  nayles  more 0  10 

And  in  redy  money  at  sight        3       0 

[3-4] 

1  Richard  Bcllingham  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiccon 
or  Societie  of  the  Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  unto 
John  Humfrey  Esqr  Simon  Bradstreete  gent  Thomas  Wiggon 
gent  and  [Samuel]  Symmons  gent  greeting  By  vertue  of  his 
Mats  Letters  Patents  under  the  great  scale  of  England  and  by 
the  Advise  of  the  [&/an£]  Counsell  of  the  said  Jurisdiccon  or 

1  Most  probably  this  commission  did  Stongliton,   Mr.  Samuel  Symoiuls,   Mr. 

not  go  into  effect,  for  there  is  in   the  William  Tynge,   Mr.  Francis  Williams, 

Colonial  Record  an  entry  wherein  the  and    Mr.    F.ihvanl    Hilton,    under   date 

same  powers,  here  specified,  are  given  of  Oct.   7,   1641,  or  three  months  later 

to    Mr.    Simon    Bradstreet,    Mr.    Israel  than  the  present  commission. 


420  LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Society  I  authorize  and  appoint  you  to  goe  to  Dover  heretofore 
called  Pascattaquay  by  whatsoever  name  it  be  called  and  there 
to  summon  call  and  keepe  a  Court  and  Courts  and  to  heare  & 
determine  all  causes  civill  &  criminal  &  to  cause  executions  to 
be  made  &  done  according  to  the  Lawcs  of  England  as  neare 
as  in  yor  discrcation  you  shall  be  able  to  doe  ft'or  which  this 
Commission  shall  be  yor  sufficient  warrant  In  testimony  whcr- 
of  I  have  caused  the  publicke  sealc  of  our  Colony  to  be  here 
unto  affixed  the  eight  day  of  the  fift  moneth  Anno  Dili  1641. 


Phillip  DC  Lanoc  1  of  Duxbury  planter  aged  about  thirty  six 
yeares  sworne  saith  that  John  Moses  of  Duxbury  aforesaid 
shipwright  having  a  pinnace  in  hand  to  build  for  one  Thomas 
Keyser  and  his  partner  as  this  deponent  hath  heard  he  was 
intreated  by  the  said  John  Moses  to  inquire  at  some  house  in 
Boston  for  pitch  &  oakum  that  should  be  left  there  by  the  said 
Thomas  Keyser  and  his  partner  for  the  use  of  the  said  pinnace 
and  this  deponent  did  inquire  two  severall  times  for  the  said 
pitch  &  oakum  about  the  latter  end  of  the  lift  moneth  last  or 
the  beginning  of  the  sixt  moneth  last  but  could  not  find  where 
the  same  was  left  though  he  inquired  at  divers  houses  but  two 
or  three  who  said  they  knew  Keyser  &  his  ptr  then  told  this 
dcpon  that  the  said  Keyser  intended  not  to  have  the  said 
pinnace  for  that  he  was  not  able  to  pay  for  it  nor  his  partner 
neither.  Wherof  this  deponent  tould  the  said  John  Moses 
wrho  thereupon  borrowed  this  deponents  boate  <fc  went  therin 
wth  another  man  to  seekc  the  said  Keyser  &  his  partner  about 
the  said  pitch  &  oakum  and  pinnace  &  they  were  waiting 
wth  his  said  boate  three  wcekes  in  the  cheife  mackrell  time 
in  September  wch  was  above  4t  dammage  to  this  deponent 
[1-0] 

1  Philip  Delano,  or  De  la  Noy,  as  it  bility,"  according  to  Winsor.     William 

was  formerly  written,  was  said  to  have  Latham  was  a  more  obscure  inhabitant 

been    a    Frenchman,    member    of    the  of  Duxbury,   whither   he  moved   from 

church  at   Leydcn.     He  came  over   in  Plymouth.     He  had  come  over  in  the 

1621,  was  freeman  in  1032,  and  was  one  "  Mayflower"   as  servant  to  Governor 

of  the  early  settlers  of  Duxbury,  where  Carver.      (See   Bradford,    pp.    447  and 

he  became  a  man  of  "much  respecta-  450.) 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  421 

[229]  Willm  Latham  of  Duxbury  planter  aged  about  32 
yeares  sworne  saith  upon  his  oath  that  in  the  seventh  moneth 
last  he  went  in  a  boate  from  Duxbury  aforesaid  wth  John 
Moses  to  seeke  Thomas  Keiscr  <fe  his  partner  about  a  pinnace 
that  the  said  John  Moses  had  in  hand  for  them  and  that  this 
deponent  <fe  the  said  Moses  were  out  about  the  said  businesse 
above  three  weekes.  [ —  8] 

Articles  of  Covenant  <f  Agreement  indented  made  the  eight  day  of 
July  Anno  Dni  1641.  Betweene  THOMAS  ALLEN  of  Barn- 
stable  in  New  England  yeoman  of  the  one  parte  And  JOHN 
EELS  of  Dorchester  in  New  England  planter  of  the  other 
parte  as  follow  eth. 

Imprimis  the  said  Thomas  Allen  doth  hereby  covenant  agree 
promise  and  grant  to  and  with  the  said  John  Eells  that  for  and 
in  consideration  of  the  summe  of  seventy  pounds  of  lawfull 
money  of  England.  [These  paragraphs  erased,  and  their  place 
taken  by  the  following  one.] 

This  Indenture  made  the  eight  day  of  July  in  the  seventeenth 
yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  Soveraigne  Lord  Charles  by  the 
grace  of  God  of  England  Scotland  France  &  Ireland  King 
Defender  of  the  faith  &c  Annoqr  Dili  1641  Betweene  Thomcs 
Allen  of  Barnstable  in  New  England  yeoman  of  the  one  parte 
and  John  Eells  of  Dorchester  in  New  England  planter  of  the 
other  parte  Witnesseth  that  the  said  Thomas  Allen  for  and  in 
consideration  of  the  summe  of  seventy  pounds  of  lawfull  money 
of  England  to  him  in  hand  payd  by  the  said  John  Eells  before 
the  sealing  &  delivery  hereof  wherof  and  wherewith  the  said 
Thomas  Allen  doth  acknowledge  himselfe  truly  satisfied  con 
tented  and  payd  &  thereof  and  of  every  parte  therof  doth  hereby 
remise  release  and  forever  quittclayme  the  said  John  Eells  his 
heires  executors  and  administrators  Doth  by  these  presents 
grant  bargaine  sell  enfeoffe  and  confirme  unto  the  said  John 
Eells  all  that  ye  house  and  houses  tenement  and  tenements  gar 
den  and  gardens  thereunto  belonging  sett  lying  &  being  in  Bow- 
porte  streete  in  Barnstable  in  the  County  of  Devon  now  or  late 
in  the  severall  occupations  of  Philip  Cole  and  Lewis  Grove  their 
assignee  or  assignes  and  all  rents  revercons  services  wages 


422  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

lights  easements  commodities  and  hereditaments  thereunto  be 
longing  And  all  writings  leases  counterparts  of  leases  deeds 
excerpts  records  <fe  miniments  concerning  the  same  wcb  are  in 
the  custody  of  the  said  Thomas  Allen  or  any  pcrsjii  or  persons 
to  his  use  And  all  standing  tables  bedsteads  wainscott  ceding 
&  other  goods  demised  with  the  premises  unto  the  said  P  C  & 
L  G  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  house  and  houses  tenement 
and  tenements  garden  and  gardens  rents  re  vert  ions  services 
and  hereditaments  and  all  and  singular  the  premises  with  the 
appurtenances  unto  the  said  John  Eells  his  heires  and  assignes 
for  ever  To  the  onely  use  and  proper  behoofe  of  the  said  John 
Eells  his  heires  and  assignes  for  ever  To  be  holden  of  the  chcii'e 
Lord  or  Lords  of  the  see  or  sees  of  the  premises  by  the  rents 
and  services  therefore  hereafter  to  be  of  right  due  &  accustomed 
And  the  said  Thomas  Allen  doth  hereby  for  himselfe  his  heires 
executors  &  administrators  Covenant  promise  and  grant  to  and 
with  the  said  John  Eells  his  heires  administrators  and  assignes 
by  these  presents  that  he  &  they  shall  or  lawfully  may  from 
time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  quietly  &  peaceably  have 
hold  and  enjoy  the  premises  and  every  parte  therof  freed  and 
discharged  of  and  from  all  other  grants  bargaines  sales  feoff- 
mcnts  ioyntures  dowers  &  title  of  dower  Judgments  executions 
[illegible]  Statutes  merchant  and  of  the  Staple  titles  troubles 
charges  &  incumbrances  Whatsoever  except  the  severall  Leases 
made  of  the  promises  unto  the  said  Philip  Cole  <fc  Lewes  [230] 
Growe  each  lease  being  now  in  being  for  three  lives  a  peece  as 
by  the  Counterparts  therof  it  doth  and  may  more  plainely 
appeare  and  except  the  rents  &  services  therefore  hereafter  to 
become  due  &  of  right  accustomed  for  or  notwithstanding  any 
thing  done  or  suffered  or  to  be  done  or  suffered  by  the  said 
Thomas  Allen  his  heires  executors  or  administrators  or  by  his 
or  their  meanes  assent  or  procurement  And  the  said  Thomas 
Allen  doth  hereby  for  himselfe  his  heires  executors  &  adminis 
trators  Covenant  promise  and  grant  to  and  with  the  said  John 
Eells  his  heires  and  assignes  by  these  presents  that  he  the  said 
Thomas  Allen  and  his  heires  and  his  and  their  wife  or  wifes 
shall  and  will  at  any  time  or  times  hereafter  within  the  space 
of  seven  yeares  next  ensuing  the  date  hereof  make  scale  & 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  423 

deliver  acknowledge  execute  and  suffer  or  cause  to  be  made 
done  acknowledged  executed  and  suffered  all  and  all  manner 
of  further  and  other  conveyances  &  assurances  in  the  la\vc 
whatsoever  for  the  more  sure  making  &  conveying  of  the 
premises  <fc  every  parte  therof  unto  the  said  John  Eells  his 
heires  £  assignes  according  to  the  true  intent  <fc  meaning  of 
these  presents  be  it  by  grant  bargaine  sale  feofl'ment  livery  & 
seisin  fines  recovery  or  any  other  way  whatsoever  as  shall 
be  devised  advised  or  required  by  the  said  John  Eells  his 
heires  or  assignes  or  his  or  their  Counsell  learned  in  the  La\vc 
and  at  his  or  their  reasonable  request  and  cost  &  charges  in 
the  Lawe  so  that  for  the  doing  or  suffering  therof  the  said 
Thomas  Allen  <fe  his  heires  and  his  or  their  wife  or  wifes  be 
not  compelled  too  travell  fourth  of  the  Jurisdiecon  of  the 
Mattachusetts  Bay  in  N  E  and  New  Plymouth  in  New  England. 
Provided  allways  that  if  the  said  John  Eells  dye  at  sea  wthout 
heires  of  his  body  that  then  the  premises  shall  be  &  rcmaine 
to  the  said  Thomas  Allen  his  heires  and  assignes  as  in  his  and 
their  former  estate  as  if  these  presents  had  never  bin  made. 
In  witncsse  &c.  [10s.] 

Articles  of  Agreement  indented  made  the  15th  day  of  July 
Anno  Dili  1641  Betweenc  Thomas  Allen  of  Barnstablc  in 
New  England  yeoman  of  the  one  parte  and  John  Eells  of 
Dorchester  in  New  England  Planter  of  the  other  parte  as 
followeth. 

1  Imprimis  that  the  said  Thomas  Allen  his  executors   <fe 
admrs  shall  enjoy  the  twenty  pounds  wch  he  the  said  Thomas 
Allen  oweth  unto  the  said  John  Eells  without  rendering  to 
him  his  executors  or  administrators  any  account. 

2  I  tin  that  whereas  John  Mark  of  Branton  in  the  County  of 
Devon  yeoman  and  Edward  Langdon  of  the  same  yeoman  [231] 
stand  bound  unto  the  said  Thomas  Allen  in  and  by  one  obliga 
tion  of  40*  condiconed  for  the  payment  of  the  summe  of  201 
unto  the  said  Thomas  Allen  his  executors  administrators  or 
assignes  upon  the  decease  of  the  said  John  Mark  as  in  and  by 
the  said  obligation  and  condicon  therof  it  doth  &  may  more 
at  large  appeare  It  is  agreed  betweene  the  said  partycs  to  these 


424  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

presents  that  the  said  John  Eells  his  executors  administrators 
or  assignes  shall  be  payd  the  said  twenty  pounds  according  to 
the  forme  &  effect  of  the  said  obligation  <fc  condicon  thcrof 
and  shall  have  &  cnioy  the  same  without  rendering  any  account 
to  him  the  said  Thomas  Allen  his  executors  or  administrators 
or  assignes. 

3  Item  that  Richard  Allen  of  Branton  aforesd  yeoman  shall 
deliver  the  bond  or  obligation  aforesaid  or  the  money  aforesaid 
if  he  hath  received  the  same  unto  the  said  J  E  or  his  assignes 
upon  lawfull  demand.  In  witncs  &c. 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  Thomas  Allen  of 
Barnstable  in  New  England  yeoman  doe  hereby  constitute  & 
in  my  place  &  stead  put  my  trusty  &  beloved  friend  John  Eells 
yeoman  my  true  &  lawful  Attorney  for  me  and  in  my  name  to 
aske  demand  receive  and  recover  of  and  frqin  the  heires 
executors  and  administrators  of  John  Marke  of  Branton  in 
the  County  of  Devon  yeoman  and  Edward  Langdon  of  the 
same  yeoman  the  summe  of  twenty  pounds  of  lawfull  money 
of  England  due  or  to  be  due  unto  me  at  or  upon  the  decease  of 
the  said  John  Marke  as  in  and  by  the  obligation  &  condicon 
therof  it  doth  &  may  more  at  large  appeare  And  the  obligation 
therof  to  demand  receive  &  recover  of  &  from  my  brother 
Richard  Allen  of  Branton  aforesaid  yeoman  or  the  said  money 
if  he  hath  the  same  received  Giving  &  granting  unto  my  said 
Attorney  my  full  power  &  lawfull  Authority  for  me  and  in  my 
name  in  execution  of  the  premises  to  sue  arrest  impleade 
prosecute  &  recover  And  upon  receipt  or  recovery  in  that 
behalfe  to  make  scale  <fc  deliver  sufficient  &  legall  acquittance 
&  release  or  releases  and  one  or  more  Attorney  or  Attorneys 
under  him  to  substitute  &  from  time  to  time  to  revoke  and 
all  other  matters  &  things  therabout  requisite  to  be  done 
for  me  and  in  my  name  to  doe  or  cause  to  be  done  as 
fully  &  effectually  as  I  my  self  e  in  person  might  or  could  doe 
Hereby  ratifying  confirming  &  allowing  all  and  whatsoever  my 
said  Attorney  shall  lawfully  doe  or  cause  to  be  done  in  the 
premises  In  witnesse  &c  15°  Julii  41. 


LECIIFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  425 

Me  Thomam  Allen  de  Barnstaple  in  Nova  Anglia  yeoman 
tencr'  £0  Join  Eells  do  Dorchester  in  Nova  Anglia  pltr  in 
Centum  et  Octoginta  libris  &c  Dat'  15°  Julii  41. 

The  Condicon  of  this  obligation  is  such  that  if  the  above 
bounden  Thomas  Allen  his  heires  executors  administrators 
and  assignes  shall  from  time  to  time  &  at  all  times  hereafter 
fullfill  observe  performc  &  kccpc  all  such  articles  coven19  and 
agreements  conteyned  &  expressed  in  one  deed  indenture  or 
grant  and  one  other  writing  inituled  articles  of  agreement 
indented  made  the  day  of  the  date  of  these  presents  betwecnc 
the  said  T  A  of  the  one  parte  &  the  said  J  E  on  the  other 
parte  which  on  ye  p*  and  behalf c  of  the  said  T  A  his  heires  <fce 
are  to  be  fulfilled  £c  Then  <fcc. 

[232]  Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  "\Vinifrid 
Woolcot  of  Waterton  in  New  England  widdowc  and  adminis 
tratrix  of  the  goods  <fc  chattels  rights  &  credits  of  John  Wool- 
cott l  late  of  Waterton  aforesaid  planter  deceased  for  and 
in  consideration  of  the  summc  of  three  hundred  eighty  and 
eight  pounds  due  &  owing  by  my  said  late  husband  unto  Ed 
mund  White  of  London  merchant  and  for  and  in  full  pay 
ment  and  discharge  thereof  according  to  the  award  a  true 
copy  wherof  Is  hereunto  annexed  and  another  recorded  by 
the  Recorder2  of  Boston  made  by  Richard  Bellingham  Esqr 
Deputy  Governor  &  Increase  Nowell  Secretary  of  the  Matta- 
chusctts  Bay  in  New  England  by  vertue  of  an  order  of  Cort 
formerly  made  touching  the  premises  doe  hereby  grant  bargaine 
and  sell  unto  the  said  Edmund  White  All  that  dwelling  house 
set  lying  &  being  in  Waterton  aforesaid  now  or  late  in  the 
occupation  of  the  said  Winniired  Woolcott  and  one  garden  and 
seven  or  eight  acres  and  all  barncs  stables  stalls  cowhouses 
&  outhouses  gatwayes  easements  therto  belonging  And  all  that 
dwelling  house  set  lying  &  being  in  Waterton  aforesaid  now 
or  late  in  the  occupation  of  [Wan&]  and  one  garden  and  seven 

1  John  Wolcott,  of  Watertown,  died          2  Stephen  "VVinthrop,  one  of  the  sons 

in  1639.     He  had  been  freeman  March  of  Governor  John  Winthrop,  was  at  this 

4,  1635,  and  representative  the  May  of  time  the  recorder  of  Boston, 
the  same  year. 


426  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

acres  of  land  broken  up  and  all  outhouses  therto  belonging 
And  one  Lott  of  seven  acres  of  land  broken  up  lying  in 
Waterton  aforesaid  And  one  other  lott  of  seven  acres  of  land 
broken  up  lying  in  Waterton  aforesaid  And  three  acres  and 
halfe  of  meadow  lying  in  Waterton  aforesaid  And  seventy 
acres  of  land  meadow  or  pasture  in  a  dividend  lying  in  Water- 
ton  aforesaid  beyond  the  mill  there  And  twenty  live  acres  of 
land  meadow  or  pasture  in  another  dividend  lying  in  Waterton 
aforesaid  and  thirty  acres  of  land  meadow  or  pasture  in  another 
dividend  lying  in  Waterton  aforesaid  And  six  acres  of  the 
Township  lying  in  Waterton  aforesaid  And  all  waves  lights 
easements  commodities  &  appurtenances  to  the  said  scverall 
houses  lotts  dividents  <fe  premises  belonging  To  have  and  to 
hould  the  said  houses  lands  tenements  hereditaments  and  all 
&  singulare  the  premises  with  the  appurtenances  whatsoever 
unto  the  said  Edmund  White  his  heires  and  Assigncs  for  ever 
And  the  said  Winifrid  Woolcott  doth  hereby  for  &  in  the  con 
sideration  aforesaid  give  &  grant  unto  the  said  Edmund  White 
foure  working  oxen  two  three  yeare  old  stecres  one  heyfer  wth 
a  calfe  one  other  heyfer  two  cowes  wherof  one  is  lame  one 
yeareling  [w««fc]  foure  swine  and  one  carte  wth  the  appurte 
nances  To  have  &  to  hold  the  said  goods  &  chattels  unto  the 
said  Edmund  White  his  executors  administrators  and  assignes 
for  ever.  In  witncsse  &c  A  true  coppy  wherof  is  hereunto 
annexed  Dated  last  day  of  May  Anno  1041.  [4s.  6.] 

Knowe  all  men  by  these  presents  that  I  David  Yale  of  Lon 
don  merchant  by  vcrtuc  of  one  letter  of  Attorney  to  me  made 
scaled  &  delivered  by  Edmund  White  of  London  merchant 
bearing  date  the  thirtieth  day  of  January  Anno  Dili  1039 
recorded  this  day  by  the  Recorder  of  Boston  in  New  England 
have  this  day  received  of  Winifrid  Woolcott  of  Watcrtowne 
widdow  and  administratrix  of  the  goods  and  chattells  rights 
and  creditts  of  John  Woolcott  late  of  Waterton  aforesaid 
deceased  one  deed  of  grant  bargaine  <t  sale  &  gift  and  right 
&  possession  of  divers  houses  lands  tenements  &  heredita 
ments  lyinir  in  Waterton  aforesd  and  divers  goods  &  chattells 
as  the  same  is  also  recorded  bv  the  said  Recorder  of  Boston 


LECHFORD'S   MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  427 

for  and  in  full  [233]  satisfaction  of  the  suniinc  of  three  hun 
dred  eighty  and  eight  pounds  found  this  day  to  be  reniayning 
due  from  the  said  John  Wooleott  unto  the  said  Edmund 
White  And  therefore  I  doc  hereby  for  and  in  the  name  of  the 
said  Edmund  White  remise  release  and  for  ever  quit  claime 
unto  the  said  Winifrid  Wooleott  all  and  all  manner  of  actions 
suits  and  demands  which  the  said  Edmund  White  hath  or  may 
have  against  the  said  Winifrid  Wooleott  her  heires  executors 
or  administrators  for  or  by  reason  of  the  said  debt  of  388*  or 
any  other  debt  matter  cause  or  thing  whatsoever  from  the 
beginning  of  the  world  unto  this  present  day  In  witnesse 
<fec.  [1  _  G] 

A  letter  of  Attorney  by  Tho  :  Allen  to  John  Eells.     [Is.] 

Anne  Stratton  of  Salem  in  New  England  widdowe  John 
Stratton  of  the  same  gent  John  Thorndike  of  the  same  gent 
and  Elizabeth  his  wife  and  Dorothy  Stratton  of  the  same  spin 
ster  make  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Captaine  Edward  Gibons  of 
Boston  in  N  E  and  Robert  Stileinan  of  London  merchant  to 
demand  receive  and  recover  of  and  from  John  Tlmrston  of 
Hockstou  in  the  County  of  Suff  Esqr  Executor  of  the  last  will 
&  testament  of  Mri.9  Alary  Dearhaugh  late  of  Barringhain  in 
the  County  of  Suffolke  widdowe  deceased  mother  of  the  said 
Anne  Stratton  and  grandmother  of  the  said  John  Elizabeth 
and  Dorothy  All  such  Legacyes  as  are  now  due  unto  them  by 
the  said  last  will  &  Testament.  19  Julii  1641. 

And  a  testification  that  the  Legatees  are  all  living  under 
seale  of  the  Country.  [2  —  6] 

EDWARD  JONES  1  of  Boston  in  N  England  carpenter  plt 
WILLIAM  LEEKE  of  Mcnnuicketucke  gent  defend1. 

The  said  Edward  Jones  complayneth  against  the  said  Will™ 
Leeke  for  the  wheras  the  said  William  Lecke  heretofore  in  or 


1  No  trace  of  Edward  Jones  nor  of  mentioned  in  Savage.  Anthony  Stanyou 
William  Leeke  is  to  be  found,  for  I  fear  is,  however,  noted  by  Savage,  who  adds 
that  this  Edward  Jones  is  not  the  one  but  little  to  our  knowledge.  He  was 


428  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

about  May  1G39  undcrtooke  the  care  and  charge  of  a  conductor 

to  conduct  the  said  Edward  as  the  Apprentice  or  servant  of 

Anthony  Stanyon  from  the  hands  of  John  Kirke  of  Tichmersh 

in  the  County  of  Northampton  in  England  gent  unto  the  hands 

of  Anthony  Stanyon  sometime  of  Boston  and  now  of  Exeter 

in  New  E  planter  with  the  Indentures  therof  and   tkcrupon 

afterwards  the  said  William  Leekc  for  his  owne  security  as  he 

said  procured  the  said  plaintiffe  to  become  bounden  by  another 

indenture  to  the  said  defend*  as  his  Apprentice  or  servant  And 

thereupon  the  said  PlaintiiTe  and  his  fi'ather  Edward  Jones  of 

Wellingborow  in  the  County  of  Northampton  [blank']  did  on 

or  about  the   first  day  of  May  Anno   1639  aforesaid  deliver 

unto  the  said  defend1  on  London  bridge  one  box  full  of  cloathes 

and  commodities  of  the  said  Plaintiffes  that  is  to  say  one  box 

worth  12s  wherin  was  one  cloath  suit  worth  31  108  seven  buck 

ram  shirts  worth  42"  one  dozen  and  halfe  of  bands  worth  359 

six  handkerchiefs  worth  6s  8d  three  paire  of  yarne  stockins  worth 

40s  one  pairc  of  new  shoocs  worth  48  divers  parcells  of  white 

bone   lace  sent  for  tokens  which  were  of  12  yards  in  a  peece 

wth  other  tokens  of  money  to  the  value  of  408  one  flaxen  sheete 

worth  78  one  broade  axe  worth  [w<«<&]  one  narrowe  axe  worth 

[&/«/<&]  one  adds  worth  [Wan*]  one  twyebill  worth  [Wuwfc]  one 

dozen  of  awgcrs  from  two  inches  and  halfe  to  halfe  an  inch  and 

an  inch  worth  [Want]  two  paire  of  chissells  worth  [w«»jt]  one 

gouge  worth  [w««fc]  two  paire  of  smoothing  plane  Irons  worth 

[Mi*»fc]  And  t\vo  joynt  irons  worth  [W<i«fc]  one  hollowing  iron 

worth  [blank]  one  halfe  round  worth  [Wunfc]  one  rabbetting  iron 

worth  [i/«wJt]  All  which  were  then  worth  the  summe  of  [w<m&] 

which  said  box  and  commodities  the  defend1  then  <t  there 

took  into  his  charge  and  custody  to  be  brought  over  into  New 

England  for  &  with  the  said  plaintiffe  &  there  to  be  deliv 

ered  to  him  But  the  said  defend1  either  lost  or  converted  the 

same  to  his  owne  use  and  hithcrunto  detcyneth  the  said  box 

and  commodities  from  the  said  plaintiffe  To   the   dammage 

of  the  said  plaintiffe  [fc/a»fc]  and  thereupon  he  brings  his  suit. 


sometimes  of  Exeter,  and  sometimes  of     where  he  was  town  clerk  in  1647,  nn<l  in 
Uostou  ;  but  latterly  he  lived  in  Exeter,      1654  was  representative  for  Hampton. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  429 

[234]  Elizabeth  Sutton  l  of  Charles  Townc  in  Now  England 
Spinster  daughter  of  John  Sutton  late  Citizen  &  Draper  of 
London  deceased  &  of  Elizabeth  sometimes  his  wife  makes  a 
Letter  of  Attorney  unto  Francis  Lisle  of  B  in  N  E  b.  and 
Walter  Blackborne  of  London  haberdasher  to  receive  &  recover 
all  moneys  due  to  her  by  law  or  equity  whatsoever  £c  dat' 
23.  5.  41. 

Elizabeth  Blackborne  2  wife  of  Walter  Blackborne  late  of 
Boston  in  N  E  g  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  unto  Joseph  Welldc 
of  Roxbury  in  N  England  gent  <fc  John  Johnson  of  the  same 
yeoman  to  receive  &  recover  all  debts  dueties  and  demands 
belonging  to  her  said  husband  inNEand  having  received  them 
to  pay  the  same  over  unto  Mf  Thomas  Fowle  of  Boston  afore 
said  to  be  conveyed  to  the  said  Walter  Blackborne.  5.  24.  41. 

* 
Elizabeth  Blackborne  wife  <tc  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney 

unto  Thomas  Fowlc  of  Boston  gent  to  receive  of  <t  from  Joseph 
Weld  of  Roxbury  &c  &  John  Johnson  &c  all  debts  duties 
summes  of  money  they  shall  hereafter  receive  &  recover  for  the 
said  Walter  Blackborne  <fc  to  rcturne  the  same  unto  him  by 
such  waves  ,<fe  meanes  as  to  her  said  Attorney  shall  seeine 
convenient  5.  24.  41. 

T  L  3  of  Boston  in  N  E  g  makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  unto 
Ensigne  Thomas  Savage  of  the  same  to  receive  all  debts  dutyes 
sum  me  &  summes  of  money  &  letters  that  arc  due  or  shall  be 
due  &  sent  to  the  said  T  L  and  the  same  letters  to  peruse  & 
send  &  returne  them  &  the  said  moneys  &  debts  to  him  in 
money  or  good  commodities  as  shall  seeme  good  to  my  said 
Attorney  5.  24.  41. 

1  Elizabeth     Sutton,     spinster,    can     whither  he  had  gone  a  year  or  KO  before, 
hardly    be    identified.     She   may   have     (See  p.  215,  ante.) 

been     sister    of    Lambert    Sutton,    of         3  Lechford  went  back  to  England  in 

Charlestown,    who  had  wife  Elizabeth,  August,    1641,    in    the    same    ship   in 

and  died  in  1649.  which  his  favorite  preacher,  Hugh  Peter, 

2  This  seems  as  if  Elizabeth  Black-  left  the   country,    as  well   as   Thomas 
borne  followed  her  husband  to  England,  Welde  and  John  Winthrop,  jr. 


430  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

Samucll  Nash  ]  of  Weymouth  in  New  England  shoemaker 
late  of  Burrough  greene  in  the  County  of  Cambridge  makes  a 
letter  of  Attorney  to  Enoch  Lunt  of  Weymouth  in  N  E  black 
smith  to  rec  40*  of  Thomas  Stevens  of  Comberton  in  the  County 
of  Cambridge  aforesaid  yeoman  due  from  John  Dontree  of 
Papworth  in  the  said  County  y.  Stevens  hath  the  bond  5. 
25.  41.  [1  —  6] 

Forasmuch  as  M?  George  Story  2  &  Gooddy  Sherman  seeme 
to  lay  divers  imputations  on  me  for  some  advise  that  I  have  in 
the  simplicitie  of  my  heart  given  them  or  one  of  them  or  her 
husband  now  being  purposed  God  willing  to  visit  my  friends  in 
England  1  thinke  good  being  thereto  requested  to  declare  my- 
selfe  hereby  in  the  said  matter  wch  I  would  have  done  sooner 
if  I  had  bin  sooner  requested  of  cither  syde  but  on  the  contrary 
I  was  intreated  by  Mf  Keayne  to  forbcarc  because  as  he  said  he 
thought  they  would  have  brought  the  things  in  publick  them 
selves  before  this.  And  first  I  doe  say  that  having  heretofore 
heard  some  probable  things  on  gooddy  Shermans  parte  I  was 
of  opinion  if  things  were  so  &  so  that  she  should  have  had 
satisfaction  for  her  sowe.  Yet  hearing  of  M*  Keaynes  confi 
dence  on  the  other  side  before  the  action  tryed  I  was  in  sus 
pense  &  advised  goodman  Sherman  to  goe  by  the  way  of  the 
Elders  first  and  afterwards  when  so  it  could  not  be  agreed  yet 
1  againc  perswadcd  goodman  Sherman  in  my  owne  chamber  if 
it  were  possible  to  compound  it  upon  reasonable  terms  [235] 
before  the  tryall  for  I  feared  that  Mr  Keayne  had  proof es 
unknown  to  gooddy  Sherman. 

Secondly  when  the  verdict  &  Judgment  was  past  I  advised 
them  to  beare  themselves  silently  at  least  if  they  could  not  be 

1  Samuel   Nash   is  noted  in  Savage,  insert   in   this   note.      It   was   a   most 
ns  Plymouth  1632,  an<l  Duxbury  1643.  trivial  dispute  at  first  in  regard  to  the 
It  may  be  this  man,  but  I  should  think  ownership  of  a  certain  pig,  claimed  by 
it  unlikely.     Knoch   Lunt,   one  would  Mistress    Sherman,    which    had    been 
think,  was  about  to  return,  if  he  had  killed    by    Captain    Keayne.      But    it 
not  already  returned  to  England.  was  carried   on    with   such   vigor   that 

2  I  fear  that  the  whole  tale  of  Mr.  it  finally  embroiled  the  whole  Colony. 
George  Story  and  Goody  Sherman  and  It  may  be  seen  at  large   in  Winthrop 
Captain   Keayne's  sow   is   too   long   to  (vol.  ii.  pp.  69,  116). 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  431 

satisfied  for  fearc  of  some  corporall  punishm*  and  I  advised 
them  to  submitt  as  farre  as  they  could  wth  a  good  conscience 
<t  I  would  help  them  to  draw  it  up  in  writing  if  they  would  but 
they  refused.  After  the  executions  a  good  while  for  \vch  the 
Lord  is  witncssc  I  was  heartily  grieved  hearing  our  Reverend 
teacher  Mr.  Cotton  presse  that  point  of  Zacheus  repentence  for 
using  too  severe  exactions  wch  pcradvcnturc  yet  he  had  Law  for 
I  resolved  1  would  sometime  or  other  remember  Mr  Kcayne  of 
it  (whomever  I  tooke  to  be  a  conscientious  &  upright  man  in 
the  gcnerall  &  so  hold  him  still  to  be)  if  that  I  should  have  a 
faire  occasion,  whereupon  one  Lordsday  when  the  Sacram*  was 
at  Boston  beinix  the  next  day  as  I  remember  after  the  newcs 

O  •• 

that  it  was  supposed  Mf  Prynne  had  sent  me  money  for  my 
passage  I  comming  home  was  very  ill  in  my  stomach  <fc  went 
to  M1:  Story  for  a  little  strong  water  [and  having  drank  my 
spirit  a  little  revived,  —  crossed  out^  and  then  remembering 
my  purpose  aforcsd  I  pcrswaded  M.r  Story  to  thinke  of  some 
yeilding  to  Mr  Keayne  as  farre  as  he  &  goocldy  Sherman  could 
doc  wth  a  good  conscience  promising  that  1  would  use  all  my 
interest  in  Mr  Keayne  for  to  get  restored  all  their  dammages 
to  them  or  in  words  to  that  effect  &  no  otherwise  other  words 
I  might  speak  wch  I  doe  not  remember  &  herein  cannot  be 
more  particular  because  George  Story  refused  yesterday  to  let 
me  then  sec  or  have  a  coppy  of  the  writing  he  hath  behind 
my  backc  [*%//>/e]  &  divulged  concerning  these  things. 

Fourthly  all  these  motions  and  advises  to  them  was  of  my 
owne  good  will  to  them  without  any  by  respect  as  farrc  as 
I  knowe  my  ownc  heart  <fc  without  the  privity  consent  or  setting 
on  of  M.r  Keayne  or  any  of  his  or  for  him  except  God  onely. 

Lastly  I  never  advised  Mr  Keayne  in  his  actions  or  any  of 
them  against  the  said  partycs  either  before  or  since  the  exe 
cutions  or  anything  therabout  All  these  to  the  best  of  my 
remembrance  I  tender  on  my  oath  to  be  recorded  that  both 
parties  may  have  coppies  therof  if  they  please  and  I  desire  it 
may  be  satisfactory  as  well  in  my  ownc  defence  as  if  need 
be  bctweenc  the  said  party es  for  peace  sake  wthout  favor  feare 
or  assertion  of  cither  sydc.  5.  24.  41. 

THO  :  LECHFORD. 


432  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

John  Bartoll  of  Marblehead  in  Ncwr  England  planter  for 
payd  by  Henry  Ilazzard  of  Bristoll  mariner  makes  a  letter  of 
Attorney  unto  the  said  II.  II.  All  that  house  <fc  garden  lying 
in  Crewkerne  in  the  County  of  Somcrsett  &  ground  thereunto 
belonging  given  me  by  my  father  John  Bartoll  late  of  Crew- 
kerne  aforesaid  glover  deceased  his  last  will  &  testament 
proved  either  at  Taunton  or  Welles  to  pay  himselfe  81  &  returne 
me  the  rest  in  such  commodities  as  I  direct  him  by  word  or 
writing,  [-s.] 

Robert  Wing  l  of  Boston  prayes  me  to  speake  or  send  to 
his  Cosin  Wing  of  Lomford  dwelling  in  the  Ladyes  place,  by 
Dedham  for  to  send  him  something.  26  Julii  1641. 

[236]  Elizabeth  Thorpe  2  of  Boston  in  New  England  [blank] 
makes  a  Release  to  M*  George  Thomson  of  London  merch* 
&  Rob1  Thomson  of  the  same  merchant  of  all  demands  for  151 
legacy  given  her  by  Elizabeth  Thomson  late  wife  of  the  said 
George  Thompson. 

Winifrid  Wolcott  of  Watcrton  grants  a  house  in  Water- 
townc  late  in  poss°on  of  John  Lawrence  3  a  garden  six  acres  of 
ground  broken  up  30  acres  in  a  dividend  &  4  acr  &  halfe  by 
itself e  broken  up  in  discharge  of  881  in  parte  of  payment  of 
the  debt  of  8731—  0— 7d  due  to  M?  Edmund  White  by  M*  John 
Woolcot  her  late  husband  by  vertue  of  an  order  of  Cort. 

John  Seberry4  against  Walter  Merry  for  151  wcb  he  over 
valued  the  house  he  bought  of  him  for  1701  by  the  valuation 

1  Robert  Wing  came  to  New   Eng-  2  Elizabeth  Thorpe  was,  I  suppose, 

land  at  sixty  years  of  age  in  the  year  some    relation    to    Henry    Thorpe    of 

1634.     He  grew  old  very  fast,  however,  Watertown,  but  what  I  cannot  say. 

as  Savage  justly  observes,  having  em-  8  John  Lawrence  was  for  a  long  time 

ployed  his  time  to  such  advantage  that  a  resident  at  Watertown,  where  he  had 

in  1647  lie  was  over  eighty  ;  and  having  many  children,   but   finally  moved   to 

nothing   to  live   upon,    he  prayed   the  Groton,  and  died  1667. 

General    Court    for    relief,    whereupon  *  John    Seabury    bought,    in    1639, 

he   was   respited   from   a   fine   he   had  with  leave  of  the  town,  Walter  Merry's 

incurred.  house,  and  half  an  acre  under  it,  in  the 


LECUFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  433 

of  John  Button  <fe  Thomas  Joy  witnesses  Thomas  Marshall 
<fc  Benjamin  Gilham. 

Anne  Norton  of  Ilingham  widowe  of  William  Norton  her 
late  husband  deceased  complaines  against  Mf  .Samuel]  Warde1 
of  Ilingham  in  an  accon  of  the  case.  She  saith  that  her  hus 
band  being  heretofore  indebted  in  19s  unto  the  sold  Samuell 
for  eloath  her  husband  told  her  that  the  said  Samucll  requested 
him  to  sellc  him  a  peecc  of  his  medowc  which  her  husband 
could  not  well  spare  &  she  now  much  wantcth  and  she  con- 
fcsseth  her  husband  told  her  he  did  sell  the  said  Samucll 
some  mcdowe  but  what  or  how  much  she  knoweth  not  &  that 
about  20s  more  besides  the  said  103  was  payd  by  the  said 
Samuel  for  the  same  being  in  all  but  30s  whcras  the  meddowe 
that  the  said  Samucll  claymcth  by  the  said  sale  is  &  was  much 
more  worth  at  the  time  of  the  said  sale  than  the  said  30s  that 
is  to  say  foure  pounds  or  thereabouts  as  the  said  plaintiffe  hath 
heard  &  verily  belicveth  &  hopeth  she  shall  be  able  to  prove 
And  further  the  said  Anne  Norton  complayneth  that  the  said 
Samuel!  hath  falsely  said  before  divers  witnesses  that  she  did 
remove  a  land  mark2  &  place  another  stake  in  another  place  in 
the  said  ground  which  is  to  her  great  discredit.  And  she  fur 
ther  complaiiieth  that  since  her  said  husbands  death  she  mowed 
her  owne  ground  as  she  conceived  wthout  any  question  by  the 
said  Samucll  made  but  the  last  yearc  he  claymed  partc  of  that 
she  mowed  Therefore  the  said  plaintiffe  saith  she  is  damnifved 
by  the  said  slanderous  words  forty  shillings  and  further  craveth 
of  this  honoured  Court  that  according  unto  equity  cither  she 
may  be  satisfied  for  the  full  value  of  the  said  meddowe  or  that 

Mill  Field,  and  so  was  allowed  an  in-  this  ease,  was  not  in  keeping  with  his 

habitant.     The  land  is  entered  in  the  general  reputation.     He  was  repivsen- 

Jiook   of  Possrssions  as  about   half  an  tative  in  1637  and  in  March,  1(538.     He 

acre,  next  to  Merry's  own  house,  near  was  made  town  clerk  in   ]646.     Savage 

Merry's  Point.     Thomas  Marshall  and  thinks  him  to  have  been  th«>  man  who 

Benjamin  Gilham  were,  the  one  a  ferry-  gave  his   name  to   Ward's  Island   and 

man,  and  the  other  a  ship-carpenter,  of  the  island  itself  to  Harvard  College. 
whom  we  have  already  heard,  as  well  as          2  "Cursed  be  he  that  removeth  his 

of  John  Button  and  Thomas  Joy.  neighbour's    landmark  "   (Deuteronomy 

1  Samuel  Ward's  alleged  conduct  in  xxvii.  17). 

28 


434  LECIIFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

she  may  be  admitted  to  redeeme  the  same  as  being  at  the  most 
but  in  the  nature  of  a  mortgage  but  if  the  Court  be  pleased  to 
adjudge  that  the  said  Samucll  shall  hold  his  bargaine  then 
that  the  said  Samucll  may  prove  what  the  said  bargaine  was  £ 
where  the  metes  &  bounds  therof  doe  lye. 

[237]  Richard  Bellingham  Esqr  Governor  of  the  Jurisdiction 
or  Societie  of  the  Mattachusetts  Bay  in  New  England  unto 
Lieutenant  Symon  Willard  of  Concorde  Ensigne  John  Holman 
of  Dorchester  &  Sergeant  Richard  Callacott  of  the  same  and 
all  others  their  Associats  whoinc  these  presents  may  concerne 
greeting.  By  vertue  of  his  Matie3  letters  Patents  under  the 
great  Scale  of  England  and  according  to  an  order  of  the  Gcn- 
erall  Court  held  at  Boston  in  New  England  on  the  second  day 
of  the  fourth  moneth  last  past  I,  not  only  in  my  owne  name 
but  in  the  name  of  the  Deputy  Governor  &  Assistants  of  the 
said  Societie  £  of  the  said  Generall  Cort  doe  hereby  license 
authorize  and  appoint  you  or  any  one  of  you  to  trade  in 
furres  <fc  wampam  with  the  Indians  for  all  manner  of  com 
modities  except  gunncs  powder  shott  &  weapons  And  further 
I  grant  power  unto  you  or  any  one  of  you  for  us  and  in  our 
names  to  prohibitt  all  other  persons  within  this  Jurisdic 
tion  to  trade  with  any  Indians  for  Wampam  or  Furres  under 
the  penalty  of  forfeiting  the  same  or  the  value  of  it  to  you 
&  yor  associats  Also  for  us  and  in  our  names  to  demand  & 
receive  all  wampam  due  to  his  Matle  or  this  Companic  of  the 
Mattachusetts  for  any  tribute  due  from  Block  Hand  Long  Hand 
Pequats  or  any  other  Indians  and  to  give  particulare  discharges 
releases  and  acquittances  for  the  same  And  further  for  us 
and  in  our  names  to  treate  with  the  Pequatts  or  any  of  them  to 
become  Tributaries  unto  our  said  Soveraigne  Lord  the  King 
seeing  they  posscssc  their  land  againe  which  was  conquered  by 
the  English  And  also  for  us  and  in  our  names  to  demand  all 
Pequoats  that  were  servants  or  slaves  to  the  English  that  have 
runnc  away  wherever  they  find  them  All  which  to  doc  and 
accomplish  I  grant  unto  you  sufficient  power  and  authority  as 
aforesaid  by  these  presents  for  which  this  Commission  shall  be 
vor  sufficient  warrant  in  force  to  remaine  from  the  said  last 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK,  435 

Wensday  in  Easter  termc  last  past  unto  the  end  <t  terme  of 
three  yearcs  thenceforth  fully  to  be  coinpleat  &  ended  accord 
ing  to  the  forme  &  effect  of  the  said  Order  of  the  Gene  rail 
Cort  In  testimony  wherof  I  have  caused  the  publicke  scale  of 
our  Colony  to  be  hereunto  aflixed  the  [M/H£]  day  of  the  [i-lank] 
moncth  Anno  Dili  1041  And  the  seventeenth  yeare  of  the 
Raignc  of  our  Soveraignc  Lord  Charles  King  of  England  etc.1 

Mr!3  Blackborncs  letter  of  Attorney  to  M!  Tho :  Fowle  dated 
25.  5.  to  be  testified  &  acknowledged  under  his  hand.  29.  5.  41. 

Mr  Collins  I  have  no  leisure  to  dispute  nor  any  great  abili 
ties  thereunto  but  for  my  love  and  obligement  to  you  and  yours 
I  shall  make  bold  to  advise  you  according  to  the  best  under 
standing  I  have  both  in  matters  of  God  and  the  King  touching 
which  tilings  you  are  now  unhappily  \_indedi>hemUi\  I  myself 
have  had  opinion  that  Apostles,  Prophets  and  Evangelists 
ought  to  [continue]  as  well  as  pastors  or  teachers  until  the 
coming  of  Christ.  Wherein  if  I  have  prophesied  and  still 
must  my  [desire  is  to  be]  informed  by  the  learned  in  England, 
to  which  purpose  partly  I  am  goeing  thither.  You  would 
wonder  how  many  things  may  be  said  for  it  out  of  Gods  word. 
Much  also  riiay  be  said  against  it.  It  is  a  great  controversy. 
The  Parliament  and  divines  in  England  and  elsewhere  seem 
to  be  divided  upon  it.  [238]  But  you  have  [reasoned]  upon  this 
[rock]  to  deny  all  Churches  because  you  cannot  see  the  [con 
tinuance,  or  consequence  ?]  of  either  of  these  two  as  I  conceive. 
You  seem  not  to  be  wrell  [versed]  in  government  things.  You 
come  but  newly  to  [consider].  My  advice  is  suspend  a  while 
your  judgment,  confess  your  [ignorance]  retract  all  [peremp 
tory]  speeches  and  so  return  unto  your  brethren  in  this 
[Church?].  Mark  this  I  pray  you,  you  must  not  unchurch 
churches  for  small  nay  great  defects,  nor  unbrothcr  brethren 
neither  for  some  slips.  [Again]  you  seem  to  deny  Christian 
[Ministration]  a  most  dangerous  thing,  yea  so  dangerous  as 
that  I  think  you  little  think  or  know  of  the  danger  thereof. 

1  This  monopoly  was  granted  by  the  General  Court  June   2,  1G41,  for  three 
years. 


436  LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

All  the  [scriptures]  that  I  hear  you  urge  for  yourself  on  this 
point  are  most  grievously  mistaken  by  you  [and  perhaps  de 
ceive  others]  for  the  most  part.  I  say  the  main  [scriptures] 
used  by  any  [antagonist]  against  civil  government  are  to  be 
understood  as  far  as  I  can  judge  of  [times  and  things]  future 
in  the  great  day  of  the  [indecipherable]  and  not  literally.  Also 
secondly  what  some  doe  blindly  deny,  but  I  say  I  dispute  not 
but  advise,  and  that  is  that  you  readily  submit  yourself  to  our 
sovereign  Lord  the  King's  Majesty  and  all  his  lawful  Sub 
stitutes  whatsoever  whomsoever  and  wheresoever,  and  herein 
also  confess  your  [ignorance].  He  that  nath  no  need  of  law 
and  none  of  God  no  need  of  repentance  let  him  say  he  hath 
no  need  of  ministry. 

Lastly  for  your  [refuge  ?]  if  you  should  fear  any  hard  use 
upon  your  person  [by  corporal  punishment]  stand  upon  your 
ministry  received  in  England  be  in  possession  of  the  [hands?] 
of  the  (ministry1)  [presbyterie  ?]  there  and  then  by  the  great 
Charter  of  England  and  other  good  laws  and  customs  of  our 
English  nation  you  are  freed  of  such  punishment,  for  no  [man] 
will  degrade  you  here.  And  1  hope  [and  am  assured]  the 
magistrates  will  be  so  wise  as  not  to  touch  you  in  that  way. 
If  you  have  not  your  [orders]  to  show  yet  allege  [that  you]  can 
prove  it  to  be  so  that  you  are  a  Minister  [ordained]  in  England. 
Do  not  fail  herein  nor  think  this  [frivolous].  I  shall  pray 
for  you  and  do  the  best  I  can  to  sweeten  some  of  the  Chief 
towards  you  before  I  go,  God  willing. 

Yours  while   [indecipherable] 

THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

And  for  you,  Francis  Hutchinson  I  am  very  sorry  for  your 
sins  and  calamity.  For  Gods  sake  be  wise  and  yet  return  to 
your  [wo™  off].  Consider  the  things  I  say  to  your  brother 
[what  is  written  concerneth  yourself  mightily].  For  your 
[fabulous]  letters  and  speeches,  lay  it  on  your  zeal  or  ignor 
ance  and  misinformation.  Crave  the  pity  of  the  ministers. 
First  get  them  to  intercede  for  you  to  the  magistrates.  Use 
all  speed  and  diligence  herein,  and  as  I  have  not  been  uumind- 

1  Cancelled  in  the  original. 


LECHFORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK.  437 

ful  of  you  so  will  I  not  forget  you  [again]  to  the  chicfest  I 
can  meet  with  conveniently  before  I  go.  Take  this  in  good 
part  and  if  you  [doe  refuse]  say  [hereafter]  you  once  had  such 
advice.  So  I  yet  pray  for  your  return  and  expediting  out  of 
this  evil  net  wherein  you  are  taken.  (Thomas  Lechford. 
There  must  he  some  yielding  in  this  and  other  things  else  you 
and  all  will  break.1) 

THOMAS  LECHFORD. 

Written  in  the  margin  at  iwo  several  places. 

Touching  the  eternal  sonship  of  Christ  1  hope  you  are  so 
wise  as  to  receive  these  good  and  satisfactory  reasons  out  of 
[scripture]  produced  to  you  by  those  more  learned  than  me 
and  not  to  [withstand]  any  longer  in  denial  thereof  but 
profess  your  faith  therein. 

And  if  they  stand  upon  proof  let  them  be  interested  to  give 
you  time  so  to  doe  [bear  it  humbly  strictly  etc.]. 

Ralfe  Allestree  2  of  Boston  in  New  England  planter  puts  his 
Sonne  Paul  Allestree  Apprentice  unto  Valentine  Hill  of  Boston 
aforesaid  merchant  with  him  to  dwell  &  serve  by  the  space 
of  8  yeares  from  the  first  day  of  Aprill  next  ensuing  the  date 
hereof  to  be  accomplish!  <fe  in  the  meane  while  to  rcmaine  in 
his  house  as  a  servant  till  the  said  first  of  Aprill  for  meatc 
drinkc  &  cloathcs  and  at  the  end  of  the  terme  double  apparell. 
dated  5.  29.  1641. 

I  am  to  pay  M?  Josuah  Footc3  at  the  Cockc  in  Grace 
church  streete  eight  pounds  before  Christinas  next  for  which 
Mf  David  Oflley  is  bound  with  me  to  Mr  Josuah  Ilewes  of 
Roxbury  in  New  England  or  els  to  be  there  payd  to  him  <fec 
by  note  or  bill  dated  27  July  1641. 

1  Cancelled  in  the  original.  ness  with  New  Englanders.     He  came  to 

2  I   can  find  no  mention  in  Savage  this  country  in  1653,  but  died  shortly 
or  in  the  Boston   Touni  Record  of  any  afterwards.    Joshua  Howes,  a  prominent 
Ralfe  or  Paul  Allestree  or  of  any  others  Koxbury  man,  of  whom  \ve  have  heard 
of  that  name.  before,  was   administrator  to   his  will, 

8  Joshua  Foot,  an  ironmonger  of  Lon-  and  therefore  I  doubt  not  that  they  had 
don,  was  in  many  ways  connected  by  busi-  frequent  dealings  with  each  other. 


438  LECH  FORD'S  MANUSCRIPT  NOTE-BOOK. 

[239]  Post  Mich  :  17.  Car.  1641. 

Layd  out  for  Barnaby  Davis  for  the  carriage  of  a  letter  to 
Mf  Liggon l  to  the  porter  &  carrier  dec.  2.  [0  — 6] 

Layd  out  for  Willm  Swift2  for  a  search  in  the  Affid*  office 
for  the  affidavit  wch  My  Burton  produced  at  New  England  as  at 
the  suit  of  Andrew  Coleman  but  could  not  finde  the  same 
entered.  [0  — 4d.] 

1  This  letter  of  Barnaby  Davis  is,  I  same  letter  is  printed.]     This  entry  and 
suppose,  the  one  in  the  Note-book,  p.  210,  the  preceding  one  were  of  course  made 
ante.  after  Lechford  found  himself  back  again 

2  For  this  matter  see  p.  174,  ante,  in  England.      Michaelmas  falls  on  the 
[And  Mass.  Col.  Rec.y  i.  298,  where  the  29th  of  September. 


APPENDIX. 


[Translation  of  certain  short-hand  entries  not  inserted  in  their  proper  places.] 


Page  150. 

Money  received  upon  my  book  as  appeareth  381  8s  5d  or  there 
about  beside  the  debts  owing  were  81  18s  10d  cost  2-5  — 1640. 

Page  153. 

April  21,  1640.  It  is  resolved  and  concluded  by  the  House  of 
Commons  that  the  [select]  committees  shall  confer  with  the  Upper 
House  these  three  [generals]. 

[First]  General.  Of  matters  of  [perversion  ?]  of  religion  and  to  this 
end  they  are  (first)  to  consider  of  the  [present  confirmation]  granted 
to  the  convention  touching  making  and  altering  of  canons  and  other 
matters  in  the  Church. 

(secondly)  the  complaints  and  [indecipherable]  brought  in  by  the 
Bishops  and  the  Clergy. 

(third)  the  molesting  and  sentencing  of  many  worthy  and  conformable 
ministers  because  they  will  not  obey  the  Bishops  variable  commands, 
(fourth)  The  publishing  of  Popish  books  and  printing  of  Popish 
books  and  maintaining  of  Popish  [doctrines]  in  eminent  disputations. 

[Second]  General.     The  [several  words  indecipherable]  and  grievances 
[first]  patents  monopolies  and  ship  monies, 
(second)  the  enlargements  of  forests  beyond  bounds, 
(third)  Military  charges  in  billeting  soldiers, 
(fourth)  Denying  of  justice  in  Courts  of  Justice  in  Westminster, 
(fifth)  The  frequent  punishing  and  imprisonment  of  such  as  would 
not  condescend  to  unlawful  taxes  and  monopolies. 

[Third]  General  The  breach  of  the  peace  of  Parliament  and  the 
necessity  of  frequent  Parliaments. 

News  (First)  The  Countess  of  Westmoreland  is  dead. 


440  APPENDIX. 

(Secondly)  [Dr.  Baker?]  is  questioned  for  a  [sermon?  the  words] 
being  these,  that  between  subject  and  subject  it  is  meum  and  tuum, 
but  between  the  King  and  his  subjects  it  is  omne  meum  and  other 
words  against  the  Parliament. 

Page  160. 

Ignorant  people.  In  the  number  of  the  ignorant  I  hold  myself 
and  Mr.  Burton  Mr.  Prynne  and  Dr.  [Bastwick]  and  a  [multi 
tude]  more.  O  mercy  mercy  from  all  the  powers  of  mercy  in  heaven 
and  on  earth  to  such  as  [sin]  of  ignorance  :  long  live  England  and 
English  friends.  Let  them  remember  that  wherever  yet  a  man 
travel  from  East  to  West  England  is  a  good  land.  Ireland  also 
(great  almost  incomprehensible  are  the  wonders  of  new  plantations  1) 
Here  are,  it  is  true,  some  wise  men  but  they  want  estates  and  main 
tenance  and  this  way  they  are  never  like  to  get  them  I  fear.  The 
Patent  they  think  bears  them  out  to  uphold  these  [electory]  proceed 
ings  although  I  hear  it  be  declared  void  and  sent  for. 

The  God  of  Heaven  guide  his  Majesty  and  his  counsels  and  give  to 
England  and  the  United  Kingdoms  of  our  sovereign  and  all  his 
dominions  everlasting  truth  and  peace. 

If  I  come  [home]  as  I  hope  to  doe  I  shall  discourse  to  you  more  at 
large.  In  the  meanwhile  I  commend  you  and  yours  to  God  not  for 
getting  my  best  respects  unto  your  beloved  mistress  [B-k-m]  and 
your  neighbors  all  whom  I  love  and  right  heartily  Mr.  Alexander 
Jett  my  [summer  schoolfellow]  and  your  kinswoman  his  wife.  Rests 
yours  assuredly  in  all  love  service  and  thankfulness. 

THOMAS  LECIIFORD. 

Page  193. 

I  am  summoned  to  appear  in  Court  to-morrow  being  the  1.  of  10. 
1640.  The  Lord  God  direct  me  &c. 

May  it  please  your  Worship  Mr.  Governor  and  the  rest  of  your 
worships.  The  occasion  of  coming  here  this  term  before  your 
worships  is  [about]  a  certain  warrant  sent  forth  against  mee  which  is 
this  to  the  [effect]  of  an  information  by  the  grand  jury  in  Sept.  last. 
Since  that  time  the  General  Court  was  pleased  to  say  something  to 
nice  when  they  brake  up  as  for  good  counsel  to  me  about  tenets  and 
disputations  which  I  have  held,  advising  mee  to  bear  myself  in  silence 
and  as  became  mee,  I  know  not  how  to  take  that  at  the  present  be 
cause  of  a  presentment  that  I  know  was  [on  foot]  against  mee.  Yet 

1  Cancelled  in  the  original. 


APPENDIX.  441 

according  to  that  advice  I  luivc  been  hitherto  and  shall  God  willing  bo 
ready  to  carry  myself  for  hereafter,  and  for  this  matter  and  time 
indeed  I  desire  not  to  trouble  your  Worships  with  long  speech  to 
divert  or  hinder  your  other  occasions.  I  am  no  pleader  by  nature. 
Oratory  I  have  little,  and  if  I  had  never  so  expert  a  faculty  that  way 
I  should  not  now  use  it  to  make  any  full  defence  of  my  matters ;  [*yet 
for  that  part  of  pleading  according  to  the  law  of  England  which  consists 
in  chirography  1  could,]  and  as  for  that  other  part  of  pleading  which 
consisted!  in  chirography  wherein  I  had  some  little  skill  I  do  not  de 
sire  neither  to  use  any  of  that.  Your  Worships  know  that  it  concerns 
every  man  in  his  answering  matters  laid  to  his  charge,  in  pleading  to 
look  first  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Court,  next  to  the  [person]  then 
to  the  right  and  so  forth  to  the  [plaint  and  action]  of  crime  and  then 
to  look  to  the  challenging  of  the  jury.  To  cut  off  all  that  I  desire 
your  Worships  to  be  pleased  to  accept  of  this  my  short  acknowledge 
ment  that  I  have,  I  do  confess,  too  far  meddled  in  some  matters  of 
church  government  and  the  like  which  I  am  not  sufficient  to  under 
stand  or  declare ;  and  although  once  I  thought  myself  bound  in  con 
science  to  say  some  of  those  things  I  have  said,  yet  now  I  am  ashamed 
of  many  of  them. 

1  Cancelled  in  the  original. 


INDEX. 


In  finishing  this  Index,  the  Editor  does  the  last  and  probably  the  most  important  part 
of  his  work  in  the  preparation  of  this  book.  Tho  Index  has  been  constructed  with  much 
care,  and  it  is  hoped  that  it  will  prove  useful.  The  references  have  been  made  to  the 
manuscript  pages,  except  iu  cases  where,  a  name  occurring  only  in  the  notes,  it  was  thought 
best  to  use  the  book-page  with  the  letter  ?i  attached.  Such  references,  then,  as  1(K),  n.,  refer 
to  the  book-page.  It  is  hoped  that  this  arrangement  may  prove  as  convenient  to  readers 
on  examination  as  it  has  proved  to  the  Editor  in  preparation. 

Not  a  few  errors  in  the  work  have  been  detected  in  the  course  of  making  and  verifying 
this  Index.  It  would  be  Idle,  however,  to  imagine  that  by  the  correction  of  these  the  Note 
book  is  given  to  the  world  without  blemish ;  and  for  such  errors  as  may  remain  to  aunoy  the 
reader  the  Editor  presents  herewith  his  most  hearty  regrets. 


ABACODUSSET,  Sagamore  of  Kennebec, 
219. 

Adams,  Daniel,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Purchas,  84. 

Adams,  Thomas,  bills  of  exchange  charged 
on,  123,  124 

Agawam,  Sagamore,  223. 

Alcoek,  George,  factorage  for  James  Mar 
shall,  148  ;  bond  from  Richard  Wright, 
194;  will  of,  213. 

Aldworth,  Mr.,  the  "White  Angel"  pur 
chased  of,  120. 

Allen,  liozoun,  172,  195. 

Allen,  George,  petition  for,  195. 

Allen,  Richard,  231. 

Allen,  Thomas,  draws  a  bill  of  exchange 
on  Roger  Delbridge,  119;  suit  of  Philip 
Gibb,  182;  bond  to  Edward  Michelson, 
195  ;  conveyance  to  John  Eels,  227 ;  arti 
cles  of  agreement,  229,  etc.;  letter  of 
attorney,  232. 

Allerton,  Isaac,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Peter  Garland,  35 ;  from  Richard  lies, 
35;  note  on  01,  n. ;  defendant  at  suit  of 
Timothy  Hatherly,  114;  no  visible  es 
tate,  120;  deposition  in  regard  to  the 
'•White  Angel,"  120;  letter  of  attorney 
from  John  Pickering,  151;  from  "one  of 
Plymouth,"  ib. ;  mentioned,  197;  warrant 
against,  209;  at  New  Amsterdam,  251),  n. 

Allestree,  Paul,  apprenticed  to  Valentine 
Hill,  2:J8.> 

Allestree,  Ralph,  apprentices  his  son  Paul 
to  Valentine  Hill,  238. 

Allyn,  Margaret,  55. 

Allyn,  Matthew,  and  Thomas  Allyn,  deed, 
55;  bond  to  Humphrey  Hooke",  74;  de 
fendant  at  suit  of  John  Cogan,  200  ; 
summoned  at  suit  of  Harwood  and  Gam 
mon,  22G. 


Allyn,  Thormis,  and  Matthew  Allyn,  deed, 

55;  desires  a  certificate  of  Governor  Win. 

throp,  120;   procures  a  warrant  against 

Isaac  Allerton,  209. 
Ammidown,  Roger,  101. 
Anderson,  David,  189. 
Anderson,  Robert  and  Nicholas,  207. 
Andrewes,  Henry,   letter  of  attorney  from 

Nathaniel  Patten,  177. 
Andrewes,  Richard,    94;  and  the   "White 

Angel,"  120. 
Andros,   Edmund,    and   the    Amlroscocrcrin 

River,  123,  n. 
Angier,  Edmund,  141. 
Applegate,  Thomas,  215. 
Appleton.    Isaac,    letter    of  attorney    from 

Samuel  Appleton,  99,  102. 
Appleton,    Samuel,    letter    of    attorney    to 

Isaac  Appleton,  et  n/.,  99, 102. 
Archbold,  Mr.,  211. 
Armitage,  Joseph,  bond  to  John   Pollard, 

202;   bond  to  Henry  Symonds,  ib. ;  hires 

a    lighter    of    Robert "  Thompson,    207  ; 

leases   his  shallop  to  certain   fishermen, 

221. 

Arnndel,  William,  bond,  151,  153. 
Ashley,      Thomas,      aflidavit      concerning 

Thomas    Rucke,    78;    hires    a    shallop, 

221. 
Askew,  John,  at  suit  of  Edward  Winslow, 

203. 

Aswaw,  deed  to  Lion  Gardiner,  129. 
Atkins,  Chrisptoher,  24  ;  letter  of  attorney 

from  David  Otfley,  120. 
Atkinson,  Theodore',  10;  bond  from  Robert 

Mantell,  181. 
Auger,  Sampson  et  al.,  bond  from  Thomas 

Fowle,  155. 

A  very,  master  of  the  "  Hopewell,"  180. 
Avis  alias  Havye,  10,  11. 


444 


INDEX. 


DAMP.,  Mr.,  204,    211;  (incorrectly   printed 

tittble  in  the  text). 
Bacheller,    Joseph,    defendant    at    suit    of 

JaiiH-s  Brooke,  75;  nt  suit  of  Henry  Para- 

inor,  70;  other  concerns,  7(i.  vt  &tq.  ;  let 
ter  of  attorney  to  Thomas  Lech  ford,   100; 

mentioned,   103;  vs.  James  Brooke,  115; 

quoted  as  precedent,  218. 
Bacon,  Nathaniel,  87. 
Baker,  Ann,  her  goods,  107. 
Baker,  Dr.,  appendix. 
Baker,   John,    bond  from  David  Sellecke, 

133. 

Baker,  Mr.,  4. 
Baker,  William,  letter  of  attorney  from  John 

Bent,  107;  mentioned,  181. 
Ball,  Mr.,  answer  to,  1;  his  book,  164. 
Baiidon  Bridge,  258,  n. 
Barker,    Edward,    letter  of    attorney  from 

Thomas  May  hew,  117. 
Barker,  John,  88;  owes  Thomas  Watson,  122, 

1*). 
Barker,Thomas,  1,  «.,  conveyance  toThomas 

Savage,  130;  release  to  same,  145. 
Barnardiston,  Thomas,  vs.  Thomas  \Vcston, 

157. 

Barnes,  John,  bond  to  John  Parker,  181. 
Barrel  1,  George,  and  Thomas  Pay  liter;  deed 

and  bond,  20. 
Barrcll,  William,  103. 
Barrett,  Stephen,  assignment  of,  65. 
Harrington,  Robert,  letter  of  attorney  to,  103. 
Barriton,  Katherine,  receives  a  certain  wine 

license,  1 1(5. 
Barrow.    Giles,    letter    of    attorney    from 

Abraham  Harding.  168. 
Bartoll,  John,    letter  of  attorney  to  Henry 

Ha/zard.  235. 
Bast  IT,  Mercy,  152. 
Batitwiok,  John,  punishment  of,-xi;   held 

ignorunt  by  Lechford,  appendix. 
Bateman,   John,  letter  from  Augustin  Cle 
ment,  4. 

Bates,  William,  21. 
Batman,  ,  places  his  daughter  Margery, 

etc.,  51. 

Batt,  Anno,  wife  of  Christopher,  116. 
Batt.  Christopher,  gives  up  a  wine  license  to 

Katherine  Barriton,  116. 
Batte,  Edward,  179. 
Batter,    Edmund,    conveyance    to    George 

Richardson.  48. 
Baulston,  William,  53,  n. 
Baven  Notmhcha,  John,  Sagamore  of  Merri- 

inack,  202. 
Baylv,    Kichard,   assigned  to    Isaac    Culli- 

more,  99. 
Beaplc,   Mark,  charter  party  with  George 

Story,  181. 
Beard,  John  [Thomas],  and  his  wife  Anne, 

5,  (5. 
Benuchamn.  John,  and  the  "  White  Angel," 

120. 

Beckwith,  Thomas,  179. 
Beech.  Thomas,  indebted  to  Peter  Garland, 

35;  letter  from  said  Garland,  36. 

Bellinglmin,     Uichard,     58,    60;     deed    to 

George  Minot,  6i>;  witness,  8'J,  122,  123  ; 


Thomas  Lechford  receives  of,  143;  deed 
toThomas  Joy,  102;  Dover  commission 
to  Humfrey  tt  al.,  228,  232;  trading 
license  to  Simon  Willard  tt  al.,  237. 

Bcllinghum,  William,  and  Mr.  Humfrey; 
writings,  1. 

Belsiue,  Edmund,  112. 

Ik-mis,    Joseph,    bond    to    George    Drucll, 

Kendall,  Edward,  et  al.,  deed,  43;  and  Rich 
ard  Parker,  indenture,  45;  his  lighter, 
139,  228,  n. ;  mortgage  to  William  Tyng, 
142;  and  the  "Mary Rose,"  167. 

Bendight,  Thomas,  203. 

Ben  net,  Samuel,  defendant  at  suit  of  Richard 
Chadw.-ll,  220. 

Bent,  John,  letter  of  attorney  to  William 
Baker,  167. 

Bernard,  Richard,  answer  to,  1;  books  of, 
2,  n. 

Bernard,  William,  will,  138;  bill  of  ex 
change  on  Thomas  Free,  175. 

Berrv,  Ambrose,  159. 

Best,"  Mr.,  of  Halifax,  182. 

Betscombe,  Mary  and  Martha,  daughters  of 
Richard,  165.* 

Betscombe,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney  to  his 
brothers,  165.  -  * 

Bevan,  William,  bond  to  Thomas  Dudley, 
154. 

Bibble,  John,  letter  of  attorney  to  wife 
Sybil,  181. 

Biggs,  John,  defendant  at  suit  of  John 
Cogan,  199,  216. 

Birain,  Nicholas,  182. 

Bisco,  Nathaniel,  197. 

Bishop,  John,  72. 

Bishop,  Thomas,  assignment  from  Osmond 
Douch,  71;  lease,  72,  73. 

Bittgood,  Mrs.,  74. 

Blackallow,  William,  letter  of  attorney  from 
John  Cogan,  174. 

Blackburne,  Elizabeth,  sells  her  house  to 
Francis  Lisle,  215;  letter  of  attorney  to 
Joseph  Weld  and  John  Johnson,  234; 
to  Thomas  Fowle,  ib.,  237. 

Blackburne,  Walter,  deed  from  Nicholas 
Parker,  35  ;  indenture  with  William 
Cheney,  127,  136  ;  bonds  for  Samuel 
Hagborne  and  Martin  Stt-bbins,  130; 
Lechford  borrows  from,  144;  bond  for 
Richard  Wright,  148;  mortgage  from 
John  Johnson,  150;  sale  of  his  house, 
215;  letter  of  attorney  from  Elizabeth 
Sutton,  234. 

Blackleath,  John,  receives  Mathew  Dove  as 
servant,  149. 

Blackstone,  John,  115. 

Blackstone,  Sara,  wife  of  John,  115. 

Blackwell,  Jeremy,  bond  for  George  Bur- 
chum,  213. 

Blackwell,  John,  213. 

Bladen,  William,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Edmund  Hubbard,  etc.,  94. 

Blagge,  Henry,  turned  over  to  Thomas 
Watson,  107,  109. 

Bolingbroke,  John,  95. 

Bonito  (or  Bonython),  Captain,  82,  a 


INDEX. 


445 


Boreman,  William,  bound  apprentice  to 
Richard  Gridley,  105;  to  William 
Townshend,  130;  turned  over  to  Thomas 
Wither! v,  142;  notes  on,  1(J2,  n,  330,  n. 

Bosworth,  Benjamin,  deposition,  54;  charges 
bills  on  Joseph  Boswortli,  172. 

Bos  worth,  Jonathan,  deposition,  54. 

Bosworth,  .Joseph,  bills  charged  on,  172. 

Bosworth,  Nathaniel  (see  Benjamin  Bos- 
worth),  172. 

Boswortli,  Zacbeus,  paid  by  Lcchford,  142 ; 
even  with  him,  145. 

Bourne,  John,  vs.  Hawkins  and  Nicholas 
Hewctt,  70",  bound  to  Nehcniiah  Bourne, 
127. 

Bourne,  Nehetniah,  122,  123;  letter  of  attor 
ney  from  Katherinc  Earwiug,  J23;  to 
Samuel  Slicplierd,  123, 124;  John  Bourne 
bound  to,  127;  letter  to  Hannah  his  wife, 
ih. ;  letter  of  attorney  to  Captain  Wil- 
ImtKhby,  107. 

Bowcn,  Gi'iHith,  bond,  151;  indenture,  153. 

Bowen,  Robert,  bond  to  David  Offlcy,  143. 

Bowes,  Sir  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Edmund  Browne,  86. 

Boycat,  Anthony,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Foster,  8!). 

Brackenbury,  William,  deed  to  Edward 
Wood,  133. 

Brade,  Allen,  arbitrator,  100. 

Bradish,  Hannah,  202. 

Bradish,  Robert,  apprentices  his  daughter 
Hannah  to  Thomas  Hawkins,  202. 

Bradley,  John,  94. 

Bradshaw,  John,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Zacheus  Gould,  182. 

Bradstreet,  Simon,  perhaps  student  at  law, 
xv  ;  commission  to  Dover,  139,  228. 

Brampton,  William,  grant  from  Sir  Harry 
Vane,  60. 

Brathwayte,  Miles,  letter  of  attorney  to 
James  Oliver,  149. 

Bridge,  John,  356,  n.,  412,  n. 

Bridges,  Edward,  letter  of  attorney  to 
William  Hudson,  177. 

Bridges  Elisha,  released  to  Mary  Fisher, 
115. 

Bridges,  Robert,  205. 

Bright,  Thomas,  mortgage  to  William 
llaynsborough,  164. 

Brisco.     See  Bisco. 

Brocke,  James,  attorney  for  Henry  Paramor 
vs.  Joseph  Bacheller,  75,  et  seq. ;  letter  of 
attorney  from  Thomas  Foster,  80;  con 
cerning  provisions  used  in  the  Pequot 
wars,  99;  l«tter  of  attorney  to  Thomas 
Lechford,  100,  102;  letter  to,  103;  peti 
tion  about  the  Pequot  wars,  109;  defend 
ant  at  suit  of  Joseph  Bacheller,  115 ; 
quoted  as  precedent,  218. 

Brooke,  Lord,  08,210. 

Brooke,  Thomas,  dies  at  sea,  113. 

Brooking,  Nicholas,  bond  from  John 
Downcs,  151,  158. 

Brooks,  Richard,  to  pay  John  Fuller,  etc., 
100. 

Broomell,  John,  107. 

Browne,  Anna,  wife  of  Edmund,  86. 


Browne,  Arthur,  letter  of  attorney  drawn 
on  bv  Jonathan  Weymouth,  137;  suit 
against  for  theft,  219.  * 

Browne,  Edmund,  fellow-passenger  with 
Lechford,  xiii  ;  letter  from  Lechford, 
28;  letters  of  attorney  to  Sir  Thomas 
Bowes  tt  n/.,  80. 

Browne,  Jumes,  152. 

Browne,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  John 
Cotton,  119. 


I  Browne,    William,    bound    apprentice    to 

Thomas  Joy,  119;  hires  a  shallop,  221. 
Brownell,  Thomas,  sells  land  to  Deodatus 

Hopkins,  149. 
Browning,  Henry,  189. 
Bnckland,  William,  bond,  172. 
Buckley,  James,  181. 
Bucknam,  John,  223. 
Bucknam,  William,  petition.  223. 
Bndd,  John,  servant  assigned  to,  176. 
IJulgar,    Richard,   sale  to  Richard  Parker, 

00,  92  n.,  161. 
Burchurn,   George,  bond  to  Jercinv  Black- 

well,  213. 
Burton,    Henry,    punishment   of,   xi;    held 

ignorant  by*  Thomas  Lechford,  appendix. 
Burton,  Mr.,  paid  for  malt,  142;  his  aflida- 

vit,  239. 
Bustced,  Thomas,  bond  from  John  El  ford, 

126. 
Butler,  Daniel,  bond  from  John  Humfrev, 

130. 
Butler,  Nicholas,  conveyance  from  Thomas 

Richards,  144. 
Buttle,  Buttal,    Buttol,  Buttolf,   Buttels  or 

Bowtle.     See  Buttol  ph. 
Buttolph,  Goodman,  glover,  174. 
Buttolpli,    Leonard,    Thomas     Cooper    as 

signed  apprentice  to,   112;  defendant  at 

suit  of  Israel  Stoughton,  133;  mortgage 

to  Atherton  Hough,  212. 
Buttolpli,  Thomas,  lands  of,  98. 
Button,  John.  vs.  William  Colbron,  168;  at 

torney  for  Anne  Floyd,  167;  valuer,  236. 

CADE,  CHIUSTOPHER,  42,  n. 

Cade,  James,  deed  to  George  Strange,  26. 

Cade,  John,  26. 

Callicot(orCollacot),  Richard,  owes  William 
Coddington,  etc.,  41;  letter  of  attorney 
to  Robert  Harding,  58;  suit  of  Philip 
Gibb,  182;  defendant  at  suit  of  Edward 
Griffith,  194;  bond  to  Edward  Michelson. 
195;  mortgage  to  Philip  Eliot  and 
William  Parke,  213;  trading  license,  237, 

Calton,  Silvester,  letter  of  attorney  from 
John  Cogan,  147. 

Campc,  Nicholas,  letter  of  attorney  to,  23. 

Canonicus,  42. 

Canying,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney  from 
William  Talmage  et  (?/.,  167. 

Carre,  George,  release  to  Thomas  Coccrey, 
215. 

Carrington,  James,  93. 

Carter,  Richard,  cuts  wood  with  Mailing 
Knight,  139. 

Carter,  Thomas,  petition  of,  in  favor  of  the 
blacksmiths,  117. 


446 


INDEX. 


Carwithye,  Nicholas,  letter  of  attorney  from 
John  Cogan,  97. 

Cato,  otherwise  Goodmanes,  deed  to  George 
Manning  et  «/.,  8G. 

Chadwell,  Kichard,  petition  of,  200;  1-5.  John 
Sampson  and  Samuel  IJennet,  220. 

Chadwell,  Thomas,  brother  of  Kichard 
(q.  t;.),  200. 

Chambers,  Mrs.,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Matson,  158;  and  a  release,  ib. 

Chandler.  John,  apprentices  his  son  to 
William  Webb,  202. 

Chapman,  Murmaduke,  90,  111. 

Chauncy,  Charles,  45,  n. 

Cheney,  William,  deed  from  Nicholas  anil 
Richard  Parker,  70;  deed  from  Walter 
Blackburne,  127;  indenture,  130. 

Chesebrongh,  William,  and  John  Jolliffe  ; 
mortgage,  1  ;  conveyance,  cum  aliis,  to 
Thomas  Savage,  130*. 

Chibatuwese  [Prudence],  the  island  of,  42. 

Chickley,  John,  175. 

Clap,  Thomas,  defendant  at  suit  of  William 
Snrague,  51. 

Clarke.  Daniel,  misdemeanor  in  drinking, 
115. 

Clarke,  John,  letter  of  attorney  to  Edmund 
Sherman,  174. 

Clarke,  John  Daw,  attorney  for  William 
Kix,  171. 

Clarke,  Thomas,  conveyance  from  Thomas 
Paynter,  144. 

Clarke,  William,  155. 

Clay,  Kobert,  ot  the  "  Susan  and  Ellen," 
100. 

Clay,  linger,  factor,  147,  177. 

Clement,  Anne,  letter  from  Augustin  Cle 
ment,  4. 

Clement.  Augustin,  lease  to  William  Sal- 
ter,  1  ;  grant,  etc.,  to  John  Tinker,  1, 
et  sc<j.  ;  letters  to  Anne  Clement,  John 
Uutcmati.  William  Kutkin,  and  Margaret 
Rlathew.  4. 

Clement,  Eli/abeth,  1,  2. 

Clement,  Margaret  (see  Margaret  Rla 
thew),  4. 

Clendan,  Mr.,  letter  from  Lech  ford,  5. 

Clifford,  George,  to  learn  to  drum,  91,  n. 

Coccrev,  Thomas,  release  by  George  Carre, 
215.' 

Cockerell,  John,  130,  180. 

Cockerell,  William,  w.  William Cockerham, 
50. 

Cockerham,  William,  defendant  at  suit  of 
William  Cockerell,  50. 

Coddington,  William,  articles  of  agreement, 
etc.,  with  William  Tyng,  30,  tt  sc</. ;  debt 
of  Sergeant  Callicot,  41,  01;  the  chamber 
which  he  used  to  "  lye  "  in,  04. 

Cogan,  Eleanor,  mother  of  John  Cogan,  95. 

Cogan,  Humphrey,  151,  n. 

Cogan,  John,  and  others,  deed,  43,  56,  59; 
the  rate  of  lloston  written  for,  92;  letter 
of  attorney  to  Isaac  Northcot,95;  to  John 
Storing,  90;  to  Nicholas  Carwithye,  97; 
letter  for,  103;  petition  of,  with  other 
shopkeepers,  138;  conveyance  from  Robert 
Harding,  142;  a  writing  against  Timothy 


Hawkins,  ib. ;  articles  of  agreement  with 
Thomas  Stocker,  144;  letter  of  attorney  to 
Silvester  Calton,  147 ;  factorage  for  James 
Marshall,  148;  in  an  affidavit,  150;  letter 
of  attorney  to  James  Love,  159;  letter  to 
William  Blackallow,  174;  and  Nathaniel 
Eaton,  177;  orders  of  the  last  court, 
190;  and  the  estate  of  Nathaniel  Eaton, 
198 ;  answer  to  complaint  of  Kichard 
Eoxwell,  ib.;  rs.  Thomas  Symonds  tt  a/., 
199;  vs.  Mathcw  Allen,  200;  bond  to 
Philip  Gibb,  201;  hires  a  ketch  of  Joseph 
Graf  ton. 

Cogan,  John,  Jr.,  95,  90,  98,  99. 

Cogan,  Kobert,  155. 

Coggeshall,  John,  and  others,  deed,  43, 
07,  n. ;  house  bought  of,  1U2. 

Colbron,  William,  arbitrator,  04,  note  on, 
99,  n.;  bond,  151;  indenture,  153;  letter 
of  attorney  from  Anne  Floyd,  108. 

Colcord,  Edward,  tt  al,  bond  to  Stephen 
Greensmith,  137. 

Cole,  ,  letter  of  attorney  from  Edmund 

Urowiic,  80. 

Cole,  Eli/abeth,  wife  of  William,  88,  89,  90, 
91,  110;  answer  and  complaint  of,  150. 

Cole,  .John,  letter  of  attorney  from  William 
Cole,  88;  affidavit,  89;  letter  of  attorney 
from  Daniel  Paul,  107. 

Cole,  Philip,  227,  229. 

Cole,  Samuel,  indenture  and  articles  of  agree 
ment  with  Kobert  Sedgewick.  31,  33; 
places  John  Cole  apprentice  to  John  My- 
lam,  1 13 ;  lands  of,  119,  105 ;  bond  to  John 
Jorden,  100. 

Cole,  William,  letter  of  attorney  to  John 
Cole,  88,  90,  91;  petition  concerning  the 
will  of  Francis  Doughty,  110;  bond  to 
Timothy  Thornhill,  150. 

Coleman,  Andrew,  and  William  Swift,  174  ; 
suit  of,  239. 

Coleman,  Anne,  letter  of  attorney  to  Jeffrey 
Coleman  and  James  Wade,  99;  letter  of 
attorney  for,  107. 

Coleman,  .Jeffrey,  letter  of  attorney  to,  99. 

Coleman,  William,  99. 

Collacot,  see  Callicot. 

Collins,  Mr.,  letter  from  Lechford,  237. 

Coltman,  John,  letter  of  attorney  to  his 
father,  100. 

Coltman,  Thomas,  100. 

Conant,  Koger,  letter  of  attorney  to  Thomas 
We.ston,  130. 

Coney,  Thomas,  103. 

Conihasset,  lands  at,  221. 

Cooke,  John,  letterof  attorney  from  Thomas 
Mayhew,  117. 

Cookc,  John,  and  his  grandfather,  182. 

Cooke,  Joseph,  letter  of  attorney  to  his 
brothers  and  Kichard  Harlackenden,  135; 
quitclaim  to  his  brother  Thomas,  171. 

Cooke,  Kichard,  articles  of  agreement  with 
Arthur  Perry,  59;  bond  to  Timothy  Thorn- 
hill,  157. 

Cooke,  Kobert,  petition,  224. 

Cooke,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  from  his 
brother  Joseph,  135;  quitclaim",  171. 

Cooper,  Henry,  112. 


INDEX. 


447 


Cooper,  Thomas,  assigned  apprentice  to 
Leonard  Buttolph,  1J2. 

Corbin,  Robert,  271,  w. 

Cornelius,  Daniel,  letter  of  attorney  drawn 
on,  by  Richard  Morris,  137. 

Cornell,  Th"inas,  petition,  55;  articles  of 
agreement  with  Edward  Tyng,  142. 

Cornish,  Gabriel,  appoints  Israel  Stoughton 
attornev,  103. 

Cornish,  Thomas,  and  others,  indenture,  49. 

Cotton,  John,  states  the  errors  of  Lechford, 
xxi;  his  answer  to  Ball,  3,  «.;  note  on, 
32,  «.  ;  letter  of  attornev  to  John  Brown, 
19,  30;  presses  the  point  of  Zachens'  re 
pentance,  235. 

Cotton  warrants  for  the  various  towns,  227. 

Courtney,  Hugh,  and  others,  bond,  72;  in 
denture  with  Thomas  Dexter,  JG3;  rs. 
William  Elliot,  174. 

Coventry,  51  r.,  210. 

Cox,  Moses,  and  Margaret  Stubbin,  177. 

Covtmore,  Katherine,  et  nl.,  indenture,  15; 
letter  to  William  Wiseman  et  al,,  17; 
bond,  18:  letter  of  attorney  from,  21. 

Crabtree,  John,  receives  Solomon  Greene 
apprentice,  100;  agreement  with  Elizabeth 
Leger,  103;  his  friend,  107;  William 
Huberts  assigned  to,  150;  bond  to  George 
Luxon,  151,  162:  letter  of  attorney  to 
Isaac  Ilayncs,  212;  William  Game  as 
signed  servant  to,  214. 

Crndock,  Mathow,  his  house  at  Mistie,  114; 
mentioned,  130;  articles  drawn  for,  143. 

Crane,  Jasper,  attorney  for  Mr.  Hoe,  104, 

Craven,  Morgan,  sings  by  the  lire,  207, 

Crissal,  George,  0. 

Cri«pe,  George,  letter  of  attorney  to  his 
brother  Robert,  208. 

Criope,  Robert,  S'08;  bond  from  John  Cut- 
ten,  father  and  son,  212.  • 

Critchley,  Richard,  11,  n.;  petition  for,  143. 

Cross,  Anne,  she  thought,  115. 

Crowe,  Mr.,  224. 

Cullimore,  Isaac,  Christopher  Stanley  as 
signs  a  boy  to,  99. 

Curtis,  Deodatus,  buys  land  of  Thomas 
Brownell,  149. 

Cuthbert,  Mary,  181. 

Cuthbert,  Nathaniel,  181. 

Ctitten,  John,  father  and  son,  bond  to  divers 
men,  212. 

Cutter,  Mr.,  204. 

Cutton,  Mr.,  221. 

DANNKT,  Mr.,  of  the  "Mary  Rose,"  ]G5, 
108. 

Dastin,  Lydia,  deposition  of,  114. 

Davenport,  John,  two  manuscripts  for,  1. 

Davenport,  Richard,  lands  of,  120. 

Davis,  Barnabas,  bond  to  Hugh  Courtney, 
72;  answer,  petition  and  account,  204; 
account  with  the  Woodcocks,  206;  let 
ter  to  Richard  Lygon,  210;  to  his  father, 
211;  writings  for,  212;  suit  of,  216;  Lech- 
ford's  opinion  in  the  case,  217;  decision 
of  the  court  thereon,  ib. ;  petition  of,  221 ; 
mentioned,  225 ;  letter  carried  for,  239. 

Davis,  captain  of  the  "Marv  Rose,"  159. 


Davison,  Nicholas,  arbitrator,  194. 

Davys,  John,  bond  to  William  llerrick,  153; 
to'  build  a  bouse  for  William  Hix,  171. 

Daws,  Joseph,  letter  of  attornev  for  Eliza 
beth  Glover,  1-2-2}  bond,  123.  ' 

Davvs,  Richard,  receipt  from  Elizabeth 
G'lover,  121. 

Dawson,  Henry,  deed  from  Samuel  Searle, 
164. 

Day,  Richard,  master  of  the  "Desire,"  172. 

Dearhaugh,  Marv,  last  will  and  testament 

of,  2.;l. 

Delano,  1'hilip,  deposition,  228. 

Dclbridge,  Roger,  74;  bill  of  exchange 
drawn  on,  by  Thomas  Allen,  119. 

Denison,  George,  and  Bridget  his  wife,  let 
ter  of  attornev  to  Thomas  Worlidge,  211. 

Deordall,  Hugh."    See  Durdall. 

Derbv,  William,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Ralph  Snrague,  22. 

Herri  ford,  Barnabas,  the  lot  of,  219. 

De  Sallenoba,  Captain,  and  Mr.  Waltham,  ]. 

Dexter,  Thomas,  deed  to  his  son,  14;  bond, 
20;  bond  to  William  Hooke,  76;  indenture 
with  Humphrey  Hooke  et  rr/.,  1G3;  ac 
count  with  his  son-in-law  John  Friend. 
213. 

Higgle.  Edmnnd,  19. 

Dillingham.  Edward,  letter  of  attorney  to, 
31. 

Dinely,  Fnthergone.  11,  ??.,  240,  n. 

Dinely,  William,  lease  from  John  Hood,  5- 
from  William  Wilson,  10. 

Dixon,  Tobias,  letter  of  attorney  from  Ben 
jamin  Keayne,  103;  from  Robert  Feke 
et  al.,  139;  letter  from  William  Palmer, 
141. 

Dock,  Bendall's,  note  on,  70,  n. 

Dontrec.  John,  234. 

Dorryfnils,  Barnabn*  (.<re  Derriford).  129. 

Douch,  Grace,  71,  72;  letter  from  her  hus 
band,  73. 

Douch,  Osmund,  assignment  to  Thomas 
Bishop,  71;  lease,  72:  letter  to  his  wife, 
73;  bond,  etc.,  with  Humphrey  Hooke, 

Douch,  Robert,  71,  72. 

Doughty,  Bridget,  mentioned,  150. 

Doughty,  Francis,  88. 

Doughty,  Francis,  the  youneer,  90;  bond  to 
llenrv  Webb,  91  ;  petition  concerning, 
110:  complaint  of  Elizabeth  Cole,  150. 

Doughty,  Isaac,  1 10. 

Doughty,  Robert,  88. 

Dove,  Mathew,  assigned  as  a  servant,  149. 

Dowlyntr,  William,  letter  of  attornev  from 
William  Talmage  <*«/.,  1(57. 

Downes,  John,  bond  to  George  Luxon  c t  nl., 
151,  158. 

Downes,  William,  bill  of  sale  to  Richard 
Morris,  101,  177. 

Downing,  Emanuel,  perhaps  fellow-passen 
ger  with  Lechford,  xiii;  student  at  law, 
xv,  28,  45,  n. 

Draper,  Arthur,  letter  of  attorney,  cum  aliis, 
from  John  Rogers,  119. 

Drue!!,  George,  bond  from  William  Pom- 
fret,  181;  mortgage  from  John  Page,  182; 


448 


INDEX. 


bond  from  Joseph  Bemis,  ib. ;  sells  land 
to  William  Phillips,  209. 

Dudley,  Thomas,  student  at  law,  xv;  cer 
tificates,  147,  154;  bond  from  William 
Bevan,  154;  certiticates,  154,  156,  166, 
179,  185,  196,  198. 

Durdall,  Hugh,  bond  to  William  Knap,  214. 

Dyaper,  Anthony,  21. 

Dyer,  George,  letter  of  attorney  from  Thomas 
'Purchas,  219. 

Dyer  [William],  and  others,  deed,  43. 

EAGLESFIELP,  SUSANNA  and  MAHV,  15. 
Eames,  Alice,  22;  letter  from  Ralph  Sprague, 

23. 

Eames,  Anthony,  petition,  221. 
Earwing,  Anthony,  letter  of  attorney  from 

Katherine  Earwing,  123. 
Earwing,  Katherine,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Nehemiah  Bourne  and  Anthony  Earwing, 
123. 

Euton,  Nathaniel,  has  received  .£100,  123; 
to  be  sued, 124;  in  debt  to  John  Cogan, 
147;  letter  of  attorney  from  John  Hobson, 
177;  and  protest,  ib.  •  estate  of,  198;  letter 
of  attorney  drawn  on,  201;  his  behavior 
to  his  pupil  Samuel  Hough,  201;  work 
done  for  him  by  William  Savill,  223. 
Eaton,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  never  heard  of  again, 

248,  n. 
Eaton,   Theophilus,  brother   of   Nathaniel, 

147. 
Edwards,    John,    covenant    with    llarman 

Garret,  170;  petition,  223,  225. 
Edwards,  Simon,  172. 

Edwards,  William,  bond  to  John  Stone,  117. 
Eells,  John,  conveyance,  etc.,  from  Thomas 

Allen,  227,  229.' 

Elbridge.  master  of  the  "  Charles,"  180. 
Elford,  John,  bond  to  John  White,  126. 
Eliot,  Jacob,  bond,  151 ;  indenture,  153. 
Eliot,  John,  friend  of,  38,  n. 
Eliot,  Philip,  mortgage  from  Richard  Calli 

cot,  213. 
Eliot,  William,  bond  to  Henry  Woolcott  and 

Samuel  Wakeman,  174.         . 
Endicott,  John,  certificate  that,  he  is  alive. 
113;  the  court  book  for,  150;  certificate 
^  of,  186. 
Enflinij,  Nathaniel,  servant  of  John  Cogan 

96. 

England,  John,  25. 
England,  Steven,  letter  of    attorney  fron 

Robert  Gnmlyn,  168. 
Errington,  Thomas,  bond  to  Hugh  Court 

nev,  72. 

Evans,  Agnes,  wife  of  William.  191, 
Evans,  Elizabeth,  and  John   Wheelwright 

covenant  for  service.  70. 
Evans,  Richard,  arbitrator,  191. 
Evans,  William,  witness,  190,  191. 
Eveivd,  Richard,  and  Thomas  Nelson,  in 

denture,  34. 

Everet  oh.  Webb  (<j,  <•.),  John,  60,  65;  sell 

house  to  Christopher  Stanley,  96,98;  buv 

one  of    him,   99;    conveyance    to    Joh 

Hansett,  138;  commissioner  for  trade,  22J 

Ewer,  Thomas,  decea^x],  21. 


AHEU,  JOSEPH,  pells  house  to  Christopher 
Stanley,  96,  98;  witness,  99. 

'arringtdn,  Edward,  arbitrator,  100. 

ayreweather,  John,  deed  from  Mary  Fayre- 
weather,  60,  65. 

ayreweather,  Mary,  60,  65;  wife  of  John 
Everet,  96. 

'earne,  master  of  the  "Hector,"  112,  n. 

eke,  Robert,  letter  of  attorney  to  Robert 
Harding,  49,  99;  letter  of  attorney  to 
Tobias  Dixon,  139,  140,  164. 

'eke,  Tobias,  letter  of  attorney  to  Tobias 
Dixon,  139. 

elt,  George,  petition,  203. 

'inch,  Thomas,  23. 

'irmor,  John,  208. 

Msh,  Gabriel,  letter  of  attorney  to  Edward 
Rishworth,  93. 

'ishenden,'Mr.,  107. 

'isher,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Ed 
mund  Hubbard,  94. 

risher,  Marv,  release  from  Elisha  Bridges, 
115,  180,  ». 

'isher,  Thomas,  legacy  from  John  Black- 
stone,  115. 

''leele,  Henry,  49;  letter  of  attorney  from 
Roger  Conant,  130. 

''leming,  William,  bor\d,  151,  152. 

'lint  [Thomas],  and  others;  deed,  43. 

''loyd,  Anne,  letter  of  attorney  to  William 
Colbron  and  John  Button,  168. 

'"lovd,  John,  and  his  wife  Anne,  168. 

<'loyd,  Thomas,  168. 

"ogge,  Ralph,  deposition  in  regard  to  Mrs. 
Stratton,  185. 

Folsom,  John,  prosecuted  for  unrepaired 
fences,  113. 

'oot,  Joshua,  100;  Lechford  engaged  to, 
2:18. 

h'oote,  Mr.,  123. 

b'orrett,  James,  draws  a  bill  of  exchange, 
56  ;  deed  to  Thomas  Robinson  and  Mathew 
Sutherland,  170. 

Fortescue,  Mr.,  misinforms  Thomas  Cornell, 
55. 

Foster,  Abigail,  wife  of  Thomas,  209. 

Foster,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Foster,  89. 

Foster,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  to  Rich 
ard  Foster  et  nl.,  89;  to  George  Strange, 
209. 

Foster,  "William,  and  Vincent  Potter,  65. 

Fowle,  Thomas,  bond  from  Richard  Parker, 
153;  from  John  Scpuire  et  «/.,  155;  mort 
gage  from  Allen  Yewe,  1-08;  leiter  of 
attornev  from  Elizabeth  Blackburne,  284. 

Foxwell,  Uichard,  159;  answer  to  his  bill  of 
complaint  r«.  John  Cogan,  11)8. 

Fozdike,  Stephen,  appraiser,  223,  225. 

Free,  Thomas,  bill  of  exchange  from  Wil 
liam  Bernard,  175. 

Freeman, ,  109. 

Freeman.  Samuel,  letter  of  attorney  to  An 
drew  Walker,  155. 

Freestone,  Elizabeth,  letter  of  attorney  to 
John  Hutchinson,  181. 

Freestone,  Richard,  father,  deceased,  of 
Eli/.abeth,  181. 


INDEX. 


449 


Freestone,  Robert,  his  will,  181. 

Friend,  John,  212. 

Frost,  Nicholas,  petition  of,  12-3,  124. 

Frost,  William,  letter  to,  47;  note  on,  94,  n. 

Fuller,  Edward,  100. 

Fuller.  John,  house  granted  by  Francis  God- 

sonu',  100;  to  receive  of  Richard  Brooks, 

etc.,  100. 

GABILLOK,  MICIIA.KL,  and  Edmund  James, 
indenture,  48. 

Gabor,  Bethlen,  30. 

Gallop's  Point,  shipyards  at,  151,  n. 

Gallop,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Thomas 
Purchas,  219. 

Game,  William,  assigned  servant  to  John 
Crnbtree,  214. 

Gamlyn,  Robert,  letter  of  attorney  to  Steven 
England,  168. 

Gammon,  James.  195,200,  201;  vs.  Matthew 
Allen,  226. 

Gardiner,  George,  37,  41. 

Gardiner,  Lion,  Indian  deed,  129. 

Garford,  Gervasio,  48. 

Garland,  Peter,  letter  of  attorney  to  Isaac 
Allerton,  35;  to  Thomas  Beech,  36. 

Garrett,  Harman,  covenant  with  John  Ed 
wards,  176,  2-23,  225. 

Garrett,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Pinny,  161. 

Garrold,  Anne,  -oond  from  John  Hill,  103. 

Gaylard,  William,  acts  for  John  Wilson,  83; 
and  John  lies,  bond,  etc.,  90. 

Geere,  Elizabeth,  release  from  Michael  Wil 
liamson,  171. 

Gerrard,  Rev.  George,  to  Earl  of  Strafford, 
quoted,  viii. 

Gibb,  Philip,  28;  bond  from  William  With- 
ingtou  and  John  Xowe,  176 ;  suit  vs, 
Thomas  Allen  and  Richard  Calllcot,  182; 
bond  from  Richard  Parker,  201;  from 
John  Cogan,  ib. ;  factor  for  Harwood  and 
Gammon,  226. 

Gibbons,  Edward,  arbitrator  with  others, 
79 ;  letter  of  attorney  from  Thomas  Pur 
chas,  84;  deed  from  the  Squa  Sachem, 
143;  arbitrator,  157,  170,  201;  letter  of 
attorney  from  Thomas  Owen,  202;  pale 
of  his  share  of  the  "Planter,"  213,  219; 
sale  of  a  pinnace  to,  228;  letter  of  at- 
torncv  from  Anne  Stratton  et  n/.,  233; 
and  the  fortifications  at  Castle  Island, 
303,  n. 

Gibbons,  Jotham,  land  grant  from  the  Squa 
Sachem,  143. 

Gill.  John,  and  Morgan  Graver,  207;  valuer, 
236. 

Gillam,  Benjamin,  160;  fined  for  heating 
pitch.  279,  n. 

Gillman,  Edward,  172. 

Gilson,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Isaac  Sterne,  166. 

Gittings,  Maurice,  170. 

Glover,  Anne.  224. 

Glover,  Elizabeth,  58;  sells  land  to  John 
Newgate,  119:  receipt  to  John  Harris 
and  Richard  Davys,  etc.,  121,  et  seq.; 
sale  of  her  share  of  the  "Planter,''  213; 


grants  reversion  to  William  Stibbins, 
224. 

Glover,  Josse  or  Joas,  late  husband  of  Eliz 
abeth,  119,  121;  his  executors.  120. 

Godfrey,  Edward,  and  Thomas  Dexter,  in 
denture,  163. 

Grodsome,  Francis,  grants  house,  etc.,  to 
John  Fuller,  100. 

Goffe,  Jonathan,  letter  of  attorney  from  Ed 
mund  Browne.  86. 

Goffe,  Samuel,  petition  of,  48. 

Goffe,  Thomas,  petition  in  behalf  of,  49. 

Golston,  Goodman,  125. 

Goodman,  Thomas,  owes  Thomas  Watson, 
122,  125. 

Gooclmanes,  otherwise  Cato,  deed  to  George 
Munning  et  al.,  86. 

Goodyer,  Stephen,  176. 

Goose,  William,  shipping  papers  granted, 
29 ;  bond  from  Thomas  Taylor,  172. 

Gore,  John,  102. 

Gorges,  Sir  Ferdinando,  356,  n. 

Gorges,  Thomas,  Commissioner  for  the 
Province  of  Maine,  199. 

Gorton,  Samuel,  16,  n.,  188,  n. 

(iostlin,  Stephen,  125. 

Gould,  Jeremv,  bond  to  Henry  Waltham, 
207. 

Gould,  Zachens,  lease  from  John  Humfrey, 
147;  petition  of,  179;  letter  of  attorney 
from  John  Bradshaw,  182;  lease  from 
John  Humfrey,  179. 

Gover,  John,  180. 

Graf  ton,  Joseph,  his  ketch  the  "Endeav 
our,"  202,  234. 

Gransden,  Alice,  124,  125. 

Gransden,  Henry,  father  of  Joan,  Alice, 
Anne,  Marv.  Frances.  Sarah,  and  Mar 
tha,  124. 

Graves,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from,  23. 

Graves,  Mary,  15. 

Graves,  Thomas,  indenture,  15. 

Greene,  Man',  bound  to  William  Hudson, 
100. 

Greene,  Solomon,  bound  to  John  Crabtree, 
100,  103. 

Greenland,  John,  petitions,  178,  203. 

Greensmith,  Stephen,  33,  123;  bond  to  Ed 
ward  Colcord  and  Richard  Morris,  137. 

Grenville,  Richard,  179. 

Grey,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John,  92,  122,  125. 

Ore}',  Henry,  1.0,  n.,  47;  letter  of  attorney 
to  James  Young,  125,  .141;  grant  to  Lech- 
ford,  176. 

Grey,  John,  Rolls  to  Valentine  Hill,  etc., 
92,  122,  125. 

Grey,  1  bonus,  petition  of,  149. 

Grcv,  William,  letter  of  attorney  to  Philip 
White,  141. 

Gridley,  Richard,  receives  William  Bore- 
man  apprentice,  105;  gets  rid  of  him, 
120,  205. 

Griffin,  John,  bond  to  the  Earl  of  Warwick, 
146. 

Griffin,  Thomas,  and  others,  deed,  43. 

Griffith,  Edward,  w.  Richard  Callicott,  194. 

Groome,  John,  partner  of  John  Rogers,  109; 
owes  Thomas  Watson,  122,  125. 


29 


450 


INDEX. 


Grove,  Lewis,  227,  229. 

Grubb,  Thomas,  bill  of  exchange  on  Jef- 
frev  Salter,  172;  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Lund,  181. 

Grymes,  Samuel,  169. 

GuVden,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Sam 
uel  Apple  ton,  101. 

Guv,  John,  defendant  at  suit  of  John 
Moses,  227. 

HAGBOKNE,  SAMUEL,  land  of,  35;  bond 
to  Walter  Blackburne,  130. 

Hales,  William,  stands  security,  156. 

Haltin,  Henry,  16, 17;  letter  from  Katherine 
Coy t more  et  al.,  ib. 

Hall, "Edward,  in  good  health,  154;  letter  to 
Edward  Stokes,  ib. ;  bond  to  John  Pol 
lard,  216. 

Hull,  Edward,  information  respecting  Mar- 
maduke  Pierce,  139. 

Hall,  Francis,  154. 

Hallet,  Richard,  72,  73. 

Hammond,  Thomas,  vs.  Edmund  Ilubbard, 
113;  vs.  David  Phippen  et  nl.,  ib. 

Hancock,  Martha,  letter  to  William  Leigh, 
125. 

Hansett,  John,  conveyance  from  John  Ev- 
eret,  138;  sells  a  house  to  Thomas  Payn- 
ter,  144. 

Harding,  Abraham,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Giles  Burrow,  108. 

Harding,  John,  168. 

Harding,  Robert,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Robert  Feke,  49 ;  from  Richard  Callicott, 
58;  conveyance  to  Thomas  Savage,  129; 
to  Robert  "Keayne  et  al.,  142;  articles  of 
agreement  with  William  Withington,183. 

Hardy,  Christopher,  158. 

Harlackenden,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney 
from  Joseph  Cooke,  135. 

Harlackenden,  Roger,  last  will  and  testa 
ment,  140. 

Harlowe,  Mr,  letter  from  Josiah  Stan- 
borough,  126. 

Harris,  John,  receipt  from  Elizabeth 
Glover,  etc.,  121,  122. 

Harrison,  John,  sued  for  debt,  96;  certain 
wares  delivered  to,  99,  103;  Richard 
Hutchinson  to  collect  from,  121,  122,  127. 

Harrison,  Mr.,  84. 

Harvard  College,  condition  of  students,  201. 

Harvey,  Sir  John,  79,  n. 

Harwood,  Henry,  207. 

Harwood,  Thomas,  195,  200,  201;  suit  rs. 
Mathew  Allen,  226. 

Haskell,  Samuel,  bond  to  John  Hill,  181 ; 
to  William  Vicars,  182. 

Hassard,  Mr.,  150. 

Hatch,  William,  undertaker  in  the  "Castle 
of  London."  92;  defendant  at  suit  of 
Thomas  Rucke,  105;  reckons  with  Jo 
seph  Merriam,  107,  112. 

Hatherly,  Timothy,  vs.  Joseph  Young,  103, 
108;'?*.  Isaac  Allerton,  114;  and  the 
"White  Angel,"  120. 

Ilaugh.     See  Hough. 

Hawkins,  Abraham,  affidavit  concerning 
Thomas  Rucke,  78. 


Hawkins,  Thomas  (the  shipwright),  de 
fendant  at  suit  of  John  Bourne,  76;  let 
ter  of  attorney  from  Elizabeth  Glover, 
122,  123;  articles  of  agreement  with  Wil 
liam  Robinson,  131 ;  mentioned,  213. 

Hawkins,  Thomas  (the  baker),  bond  to 
George  Luxon,  151;  to  John  Pollard, 
175;  Hannah  BradLsh  apprenticed  to, 
202. 

Hawkins,  Timothy,  115;  a  writing  for  John 
Cogan  rs.,  142;  account  for,  160;  petition 
of.  171 ;  indenture  with  Henry  Smith,  176; 
defendant  at  suit  of  Henry  Smith,  172; 
221. 

Hawkins  [William?],  169. 

Hawthorne,  William,  47;  lands  of,  126;  to 
make  an  inventory,  148,  202,  n. 

Hayman,  James.  84. 

Haynes,  Isaac,  212. 

Haynes,  John,  174,  184;  his  farm,  224, 
416,  n. 

Haynes,  Richard,  assigned  to  John  Budd, 
176. 

Hazzard,  Henry,  letter  of  attorney  from 
John  Bart  oil,"  235. 

Hazzard,  Lawrence,  bond  from  John  Cut- 
ten,  father  and  son,  212. 

Hazzard,  Mr.,  74;  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Scudamore,  150. 

Heale,  Edward,  defendant  at  suit  of  Thomas 
Witherly,  132;  of  Jonathan  Weymouth, 
133;  of  Ralph  Scott,  138;  articles  of 
agreement  with  William  Pester,  141 . 

Ileaton,  Nathaniel,  Lechford  pays  in  full, 
142. 

Hedger,  Thomas,  46. 

Hempenstall,  Robert,  release  to  William 
\Voolncr,  207. 

Hempenstall,  Thomas,  207. 

llerne,  Mathew,  212. 

Herrick,  William,  138;  bond  from  John 
Daws,  158,  164. 

Hett,  Thomas,  vs.  Thomas  Shave,  52;  rs. 
John  Tose,  53;  letter  of  attorney  to  Rich 
ard  Morris,  70. 

HeWes,  Joshua,  account  with  Nicholas  Tre- 
rise,  133;  conveyance  from  Walter 
Blackburne,  150;  bond  from  Richard 
Morris,  187;  [Josiah]  arbitrator,  194; 
letter  of  attorney  to  Richard  Morris,  ib.; 
letter  of  attorney  from  John  Pollard, 
224;  bond  from  Lechford  and  David 
Oifley,  238. 

Hewettj  Nicholas,  defendant  at  suit  of  John 
Bourne,  76. 

Hibbens,  William,  60,  136. 

Higginson,  Mrs.,  133. 

Hill,  Fabian,  88,  89. 

Hill,  John,  bond  to  Anne  Garrold,  103; 
from  Samuel  Haskill,  181. 

Hill,  Mr.,  175,  212. 

Hill,  Valentine,  buys  of  John  Grey,  etc., 
92;  letter  of  attorney  to  Richard  Har 
rison,  122;  deed  from  John  Stratton, 
126,  161;  bond  to  Henry  Woolcott  and 
Samuel  \Vakeman,  174;  arbitrament 
with  Thomas  Mayhew,  194;  Paul  Alles- 
tree  apprenticed  to,  238. 


INDEX. 


451 


Hills.     See  lies,  58,  n. 

Hills,  Joseph,  aflidavit,  01. 

Hilton,  Edward,  419,  n. 

Hobart,  Edmund,  141,  n.     See  Hubbard. 

Hobson,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Na 
thaniel  Eaton,  177;  and  protest,  ib. 

Hogge,  John,  petition  of,  194. 

Hogge,  Roger,  210. 

Holgrave,  John,  bond  to  Edward  Paiiie, 
181. 

Holland,  Angell,  assigns  William  Game 
servant  to  John  Crabtree,  214. 

Holland,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Ralph  Sprague,  170;  defendant  at  suit 
of  John  Scobell,  190;  bond  to  Edward 
Michelson,  195;  and  a  counterbond,  ib.; 
trading  license.  237. 

Hollingsworth,  Richard,  320. 

Hollway,  Joseph,  deposition  concerning  Mrs. 
Richards,  178,  207. 

Hollway,  William,  complainant,  vs.  John 
Treworthy,  172;  to  be  sued,  177. 

Holyoke,  Edward,  his  connection  with  Bar 
nabas  Davis,  205,  217. 

Hood.  John,  lease  to  William  Dinely,  5; 
indenture,  etc.,  with  Thomas  Parish,  ib., 
et  seq. 

Hooke,  Humphrey,  bond  from  Mathew 
AllvQ,  74,  108,  110 ;  indenture  with 
Thomas  Dexter,  163. 

Hooke,  Mr.,  175. 

Hooke,  William,  and  Osmund  Douch, 
bond,  etc.,  74;  a  testimonial  for,  222. 

Hooker,  Thomas,  his  relations  with  Barna 
bas  Davis,  204. 

Hopkins,  Edward,  158,  205. 

Hopkins,  Jonathan,  181. 

Hopper,  Mary,  26. 

Hosier,  Samuel,  letter  .of  attorney  to  Jeffrey 
Coleman  and  James  Wade,  99;  agree 
ment  with  David  Offley,  104;  letter  of 
attorney  for,  167. 

Hough,  Atherton,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Thomas  Owen,  201;  note  on,  361,  n. 

Hough,  Samuel,  196,  n. ;  deposition  of,  201. 

How",  Edward,  letter  of  attorney  from  Hen 
ry  Jackson,  121. 

Howe,  Daniel,  petition  of,  147. 

Howell,  Edward,  letter  of  attorney  to  Roger 
Stevens  et  al.,  179. 

Howes, ,  31. 

Rowland,  Arthur,  169. 

Hubbard,  Edmund,  chosen  guardian  by 
Mordccai  Lvford,  93;  letter  of  attorney 
to  William  Bladcn  and  John  Fisher,  94; 
defendant  at  suit  of  Thomas  Hammond, 
113;  husband  of  Sarah,  154. 

Hubbard,  Sarah,  93 ;  certificate  on,  154. 

Hubbard,  William,  99,  101,  189. 

Hudson,  Francis,  house  of,  133. 

Hudson,  [Mary],  and  others,  deed,  43. 

Hudson  William,  and  Thomas  Cornish,  in 
denture,  4!) ;  letter  of  attorney  from  Ed 
ward  Bridges,  177;  from  Lewis  Kidby, 
211. 

Hudson,  William,  the  younger,  receives 
Mary  Greene  apprentice,  100,  103;  house 
of,  16  i. 


Ilughson,  Thomas,  100. 

Hull,  Edmund,  bond  to  Timothy  Thornhill. 

157. 

Hull,  John,  Diary  quoted,  19,  n. 

Hmnfrey,  John,  student-at-law,  xv;  writ 
ings  for,  1;  and  Mr.  Swimmer,  ib.,  115; 
bond  to  Elizabeth  Glover,  122;  bond  to 
Daniel  Butler,  130;  lease  to  Zacheus 
Gould,  147, 197  ;  account  with  John  King, 
173;  commissioner  to  Dover,  228. 

Himtridge,  Alexander,  48. 

Hard,  John,  makes  Mrs.  Lechford's  gown, 
142. 

Hurden,  Adam,  90. 

HUrst,  ,  169. 

Hussey,  George,  158. 

Hutchinson,  note  on  the  family,  156,  n. 

Hiitchinson,  Anne,  210,  n. 

Hutchinson,  Edward,  and  others,  deed,  43 ; 
and  David  Sellecke,  agreement,  etc.,  65, 
66,  68;  witness,  93;  joins  to  convey  a 
house  to  Richard  Htitchinson,  102;  deed 
to  William  Tyng.  177;  sale  of  land  to 
William  Tvng,  212,  214,  216. 

Hutchinson,  Francis,  advice  from  Thomas 
Lechford,  238. 

Hutchinson,  John,  93  ;  letter  of  attorney 
from  Elizabeth  Freestone,  181. 

Hutchinson,  Richard,  xiv;  bill  of  exchange 
in  favor  of,  56;  house  conveyed  by  his 
brothers,  William  and  Samuel,  102";  an 
other  conveyed  by  Edward  Hutchinson 
and  Thomas  Savage,  t'6.,  118;  bill  of 
exchange,  119;  .£40  paid  to,  120;  letter 
of  attorney  from  John  Stratton,  121, 127; 
his  shop,  215. 

Hutchinwn.  Samuel,  xiv,  67,  68,  81 ;  bond 
from  Richard  Parker,  91,  93;  house  rent 
paid  to,  117 :  bond  from  Richard  Parker, 
180;  bill  of  sale  to,  197;  memorandum. 
201. 

Hutchinson,  William,  xiv;  his  house,  31; 
deed,  43;  and  David  Sellecke,  agree 
ment,  etc.,  65,  66,  68:  joins  to  convey 
house  to  Richard  Hutchinson,  102;  deed 
to  William  Tyng,  177;  sale  of  land  to 
William  Tyng,  212,  214;  bounds  of  his 
land  at  Mount  Wollaston,  214. 

Iluxton,  John,  211. 

ILKS.     See  Hills,  58,  n. 
lies,  John,  and  others,  bond.  90. 
lies.    Richard,   letter  of  attorney  to   Isaac 
Allerton,  34. 

JACKSON,  HENRY,  letter  of  attorney  to  Ed 
ward  How,  121. 

Jackson,  Richard,  177. 

Jacob,  Nicholas,  212. 

James,  Edmund,  and  others,  indenture,  48. 

James,  Thomas,  his  congregation,  36,  n. 

James,  Thomas  (see  Thomas  Jones),  blown 
up  in  the  "  Mary  Rose,"  187. 

James,  William,  bill  of  exchange  drawn  by 
William  Withington,  176;  letter  of  at 
torney  to  George  Strange,  180. 

Jeffreys,  William,  bond  to  Henry  Wal- 
tham,  207. 


452 


INDEX. 


Jennison,  William,  articles  of  agreement, 
etc.,  wilh  Hubert  Scott,  70,  356,  ». 

Jctt,  Alexander,  appendix. 

John,  Sagamore  of  Merrimack,  202. 

Johnson, — —,  deeds  to Rosseter,  115. 

Johnson,  Fermin,  208. 

Johnson,  James,  171. 

Johnson,  Jane,  115. 

Johnson,  John,  1,  n. ;  letter  to  William 
Pynchon,  120;  conveyance  to  Thomas 
Savage,  130;  and  release.  145;  inventory, 
145 ;  mortgage  to  Walter  Blackburne,  150; 
bill  of  lading  for,  1C";  letter  of  attorney 
from  Elizabeth  Blaekburne,  234,  237. 

Johnson,  John,  articles  of  apprenticeship,  60. 

Johnson,  William,  bond  to  Timothy  Thorn- 
hill,  157. 

Jollift'e,  John,  and  William  Chesebrough; 
mortgage,  1. 

Jones,  Edward,  vs.  William  Leeke,  233. 

Jones,  John,  brickmaker,  130. 

Jones,  Robert,  113. 

Jones,  Thomas  (»CK  Thomas  James),  blown 
up  in  the  "Mary  Rose,"  187. 

Jordan,  Ignatius,  97,  174. 

Jordan,  John,  165,  160. 

Joy,  Thomas,  receives  William  Browne  ap 
prentice,  119;  deed  from  Richard  Belling- 
liain,  162 ;  account  against  Robert  Keayne, 
202 ;  gives  Lcchford  his  fowling-piece, 
203;  valuer,  23G. 

Judkin,  Job,  turns  over  William  Boreman 
to  Thomas  Witherley,  142;  letter  for,  183. 

KEAYNK,  BENJAMIN,  103 ;  bond  from  Robert 
Saltonstall,  219. 

Keayne,  Robert,  his  laced  coat.  41;  letter  of 
attorney  to,  103 ;  letter  of  attorney  to 
Tobias  Dixon,  103;  answer  to  Mr.  Salton- 
stall's  letter,  142;  conveyance  from  Robert 
Harding,  142;  writings  for.  144;  attorney 
for  John  Stratton,  380,  189;  letter  of  at 
torney  to  John  Tinker, ib. ;  and  John  Strat 
ton,  195;  Thomas  Joy's  account  with  him, 
202;  the  "  Sow  Case*''  234;  letter  of  at 
torney  to  John  Tinker^  401,  n. 

Kenning,  Henry,  assignment  of,  66. 

Kevser,  Thomas,  defendant  at  suit  of  John 
Moses,  227 ;  deposition  concerning,  228. 

Kidby,  Lewis,  letter  of  attorney  to  William 
Hudson,  211. 

Kidd,  Robert,  and  Katherine  Coytmore,  cum 
al.;  indenture,  15. 

King,  John,  servant  to  John  Humfrey,  173. 

King,  John,  215. 

King,  Mary,  173. 

King,  Mr.," 212. 

King,  Ralph,  letter  of  attorney  from  John 
and  Daniel  Prior,  168;  from  William 
Tallmage  et  al..  175. 

Kingsmyle,  Francis,  bond,  151;  indenture, 
153. 

Kirke,  John.  233. 

Kitcherell,  Joseph,  107. 

Knap,  William,  bond  from  Hugh  Durdal! 
and  John  Knight,  214. 

Knight,  Goodman,  114. 

Knight,  John,  bond  to  William  Knap,  214. 


Knight,  Mailing,  cuts  wood  with   Richard 

Carter,  139. 

Knight,  William,  arbitrator,  100. 
Knowe,  George,  petition,  203. 
Knowles,  John,  09. 

LAMBE,  THOMAS,  conveyance  from  Walter 
Blackburne,  150. 

Lambert,  Francis,  1,  n. ;  et  al.,  conveyance  to 
Thomas  Savage,  130 ;  release  to  same,  145. 

Lamson,  Barnabas,  5. 

Lane,  Mary,  214. 

Lang,  Richard,  complaint  against  John  Up- 
ham  and  William  Smith,  187. 

Langdon,  Edward,  227,  230. 

Large,  Widow,  212. 

Lashford,  Sir  Thomas.     See  Lechford. 

La  Tour,  Mons.  de,  and  Samuel  Maverick, 
225,  «. 

Latham,  William,  deposition,  229. 

Laud,  Archbishop,  viii,  x. 

Lawrence,  Henry,  51. 

Lawrence,  John,"  51,  152,  236. 

Lawrence,  Walter,  28. 

Lechford,  Elizabeth,  reference  to,  63,  «.,  84, 
142,  203,  215. 

Lechford,  the  family,  vii;  arms,  ix,  n. 

Lechford,  Sir  Thomas,  sends  his  daughters 
beyond  seas,  etc.,  viii;  refuses  the  oath 
of  "allegiance,  ix. 

Lechford,  Thomas,  sketch  of  his  life,  vii.  et 
seq. ;  witness,  etc.,  1,  5,  8,  9, 16,  22,  24,  25 ; 
letter  to  Edmund  Browne,  28 ?  to  Hugh 
Peter,  30;  to  [William  Frost],  47;  cer 
tain  propositions  to  the  General  Court, 
57,  58 ;  letter  of  attorney  from  James 
Brocke,  100;  from  Joseph  Bacheller,  16., 
101 ;  attorney  for  James  Brocke,  115; 
petition  for  pardon,  117;  borrows  5*.  of 
George  Story,  119;  pays  Nathaniel  Hea- 
toii'in  full,"  142;  Sarah  his  maid,  ib.  ; 
pays  Thomas  Marshall  for  wood,  ib. ; 
pays  Mr.  Burton  for  malt,  ib.  ;  pays 
Thomas  Marshall  in  full,  145;  even 
with  Zachie  Bosworth,  ib.;  attorney  for 

Thomas  Barnardiston,  167 ;  letter  to , 

175;  summoned  to  court,  176;  grant  from 
Henry  Grey,  ib. ;  Mrs.  Richard's  petition, 
202;  Thomas  Jov  gives  him  a  fowling- 
piece,  203;  to  write  lor  henbane,  etc.  ib.  ; 
opinion  in  the  matter  of  Barnabas  Davis, 
217;  auditor  in  the  case,  ib.  ;  letter  of  at 
torney  from  Thomas  Purchas,  219;  letter 
of  attorney  to  Thomas  Savage,  234;  his 
part  in  the  "  Sow  Case,"  ib.;  desired  to 
Dear  a  message,  235 ;  letter  to  Mr.  Collins, 
237;  sends  advice  to  Francis  Hutchinson, 
238;  considers  himself  ignorant,  appen 
dix;  summoned  to  court,  etc.,  appendix. 

Leeds,  ,  192. 

Leeke,  William,  defendant  at  suit  of  Ed 
ward  Jones,  233. 

Leger,  Elizabeth,  agreement  with  John 
Crabtree,  103. 

Leigh,  William,  letter  from  Martha  Han 
cock,  125. 

Leveret t.  John,  4,  n. ;  his  foot-company, 
154,  ». 


INDEX. 


453 


Leverett,  Thomas,  1;  deed  (with  others), 
43;  arbitrator,  64;  note  on,  99,  n. 

Lewes,  Robert,  assigns  William  Huberts  to 
John  Crnbtree,  160. 

Lewys,  Morgain,  letter  of  attorney  to  John 
Pickering,  158. 

Ley,  Lord,  52,  n. 

Lisle,  Francis,  buys  a  house  of  Elizabeth 
Blackburne,  215;  letter  of  attorney  from 
Elizabeth  Sutton,  234. 

Long,  John,  petition  for  Mr.  Whitcomb's 
land,  113;  deposition,  214. 

Longley,  William,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Thomas  Meeke,  167. 

Loomis,  Joseph,  91. 

Love,  James,  letter  of  attorney  from  John 
Cogan,  159. 

Loverun,  George,  86,  87. 

Loverun,  John,  ib. 

Loverun,  William,  ib. 

Lowe,  John,  102;  bond  to  Philip  Gibb,  170. 

Lucar,  Robert,  bond  for  John  Griffin's  ap 
pearance,  146;  bond  from  Thomas  Page, 
211. 

Ludlow,  George,  50,  58. 

Ludlow,  Roger,  land  of,  131. 

Lulett,  Lewis,  petition,  203. 

Lund,  Thomas,  172;  letter  of  attorney  to 
Thomas  Grubb,  181. 

Lunt,  Enoch,  letter  of  attorney  from  Samuel 
Nash,  234. 

Luxford.  34,  139;  in  Barnabas  Davis'  ac 
count,  205;  relations  with  Winthrop, 
229,  n. 

Luxon,  George,  assigns  Mathew  Dove  to 
John  Blackleath,  149;  bond  from  John 
Crabtree  and  Thomas  Hawkins,  151;  in 
denture,  153;  bond  from  John  Do \vnes, 
158. 

Lyford,  John,  93. 

Lvford,  Mordecai,  chooses  Edmund  Ilub- 
bard  guardian,  93,  95. 

Lyford,  Obadiah,  93. 

Lygon,  Richard,  note  on,  378,  re. ;  letter  from 
"  Barnabas  Davis,  210;  mentioned  bv  Davis, 
211;  letter  for,  239. 

MADPOX,  ELIZABETH,  wife  of  William, 
116. 

Maddox,  William,  116. 

Major,  German,  letter  of  attorney  from  Ed 
ward  Howell,  179. 

Makepeace,  Thomas,  petition,  224. 

Manchonat,  Island  of,  ceded  to  Lion  Gardi 
ner,  130. 

Mansfield,  Richard,  148. 

Mantell,  Robert,  bond  to  Theodore  Atkin 
son,  181. 

Marke,  John,  227,  230. 

Marret,  Roger,  6. 

Marriot,  James,  13,  n. 

Marryot,  Thomas,  32. 

Marshall,  Jatnes,  and  John  Cogan,  148. 

Marshall,  Thomas,  paid  for  wood,  142;  in 
full,  145;  witness,  236. 

Mftrshfield,  Thomas,  1 ;  bond  to  John  Ties, 

•     90;  account  with  Nathaniel  Patten,  180. 

Martin,  Isaac,  13. 


Martin,  Thomas,  bond  to  Solomon  Safferv, 
13-2. 

Mason,  Ralph,  144. 

Mather,  llenvv,  indenture  with  Thomas  Cor 
nish,  49.  * 

Mather,  Newton,  125. 

Mather,  Richard,  198,  n. 

Mather,  Robert.,  16;  letter  from  Katherine 
Coytmore  et  nl.,  17. 

Mathew,  John,  arbitrator,  191:  witness,  190, 
191. 

Mathew,  Margaret,  2,  4. 

Matson,  Thonias,  letter  of  attorney  to  Mrs. 
Chambers,  158;  release,  etc.,  ib\ 

Matthew,  Dermont,  complains  of  George 
Strange,  148. 

Matthew,  Teg,  148. 

Maverick,  Elius,  152. 

Maverick,  Samuel,  bond  to  William  Hooke, 
76;  indenture  with  Nicholas  Trerise,  137; 
arbitrator,  157;  mortgage  from  Allen 
Yetve,  158;  relations  with  La  Tour,  225,  n. 

Mayhew,  Jane,  wife  of  Thomas,  117. 

Mavhew,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Richard  Payne  el  al.,  117;  letter  of  at- 
tornev  for,  144;  arbitrament  with  Valen 
tine  Hill,  194;  note,  411,  n. 

Mayne,  George,  of  the  ''Beaver,"  69. 

Mayo,  John,  and  family,  168. 

Meeke,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorne}-  to  Wil 
liam  Longlev,  167. 

Mellows,  Abraham,  223. 

Mellows,  Edward,  petition,  223. 

Merchant,  Walter,  bond  to  Robert  Shufc, 
209. 

Merriam,  Joseph,  105;  deposition  concern 
ing,  107;  rs.  William  Hatch,  107,  112. 

Merriam,  Robert,  affidavit,  92;  puts  William 
Boreman  apprentice  to  Richard  Gridlev. 
105. 

Merrimack,  John,  Sagamore  of,  202. 

Merry,  Walter,  hitter  of  attorney  to  Rich 
ard  Morris,  194;  suit  of  John  Seberrv, 
236. 

Mewtis,  Thomas,  clerk  of  the  council,  3,  n. 

Miantinomie,  42. 

Michelson,  Edward,  115;  letter  of  attorney 
from  Comfort  Starr,  130;  bond  from 
Thomas  Allen  ft  «/.,  195. 

Micklethwaite,  Nathaniel,  factor  for  the 
Ilutchinsons,  xiv,  95,  117  ;  house  rent 
paid  to,  118,  142,  144. 

Miller,  Isabel!,  165. 

Miller,  Thomas,  bond  from  Thomas  Tavlor, 
165. 

Milles,  Samuel,  deposition  of,  concerning 
Morgan  Craver,  207. 

Millet,  Thomas,  103. 

Milhvard,  73,  74,  81;  deposition,  165. 

Minot,  George,  deed  from  Richard  Belling- 
ham.  69. 

Minshal,  William,  137. 

Moody,  My  Lady,  41. 

Moore,  John,  8;  owes  Thomas  Watson,  122, 
1-25. 

Morecraft,  John,  petition,  207. 

Morgan,  Robert,  suit  against,  for  theft,  219. 

Morley,  Dr.,  prescription  by.  216. 


454 


INDEX. 


Morrill,  Isaac,  petition  in  behalf  of  the 
blacksmiths,  117. 

Morris,  John,  bond  from  John  Downes,  151, 
158. 

Morris,  Richard,  articles  with  Richard  Par 
ker,  59;  letter  of  attorney  from  Thuinas 
Hett,  70;  bond  from  Stephen  Greensmith, 
337;  letter  of  attorney  from  William 
Fierce,  ib.;  bill  of  sale  from  William 
Downes,  102  ;  letter  from,  186  ;  bond  to 
Joshua  Hewes,  187;  letter  of  attorney 
from  same,  194;  from  Walter  Merry,  ib. 

Morris,  Thomas,  195,  190. 

Moses,  John,  vs.  Thomas  Keyser  and  John 
Guy,  227  ;  deposition  concerning,  228. 

Moulton,  Jane,  complaint  of,  152. 

Moulton,  Thomas,  deposition,  51;  complaint 
against  William  Stidson,  152,  178. 

Munning,  George,  et  al.,  deed  from  Cato, 
otherwise  Goodmanes,  80. 

Mvlam,  John,  John  Cole  assigned  appren 
tice  to,  113. 

Myles,  Robert,  17. 

NANTASKKT,  fishing  plantation  at,  221. 

Nash,  liobert,  appraiser,  223,  225. 

Nash,  Samuel,  letter  of  attorney  to  Enoch 

Lunt,  '234. 
Nelson,  Robert,  89. 
Nelson,  Thomas,   indenture   with   Richard 

Evered,  34. 

Nowberry,  Thomas,  deceased,  83. 
Ncweomen,  Jonathan,  213. 
Newgate,  Anne,  9,  87. 
Newgate,  Hannah,  8. 
Newgate,  John,  will.  8;  deed   (with  others), 

43;  recognition,  87;  buys  land  of  Eliza 

beth   Glover,    11!);    of  "John   Winthrop, 

141;  land  at  Rumncy  Marsh,  142. 
Newgate,  John,  the  younger,  8,  9. 
Newgate,  Nathaniel*,  8;  to  learn  to  drum, 

91,  n. 

Newgate,  Sarah,  8. 
Newland,  William,  215. 
Nit-hols,  George,  bill  of  exchange,  143. 
Nichols,  Thomas,  bill  of  exchange,  104. 
Nichols,  Thomas,  bond  to  John  Cockerel!, 

130;  bill  of  exchange,  143;  letter  of  at 

torney  to  John  Cockercll,  180. 
Nichols,  Walter,  will  of,  130. 
Norman,  Mat  hew,  bond   to   Robert   Shute 

209. 
Northcot,  Isaac,  letter  of  attorney  from  John 

Cogan,  95. 
Norton,    Anne,    complaint   against   Samuel 

Ward.  230. 
Norton,  John,  30. 
Norton,    William,    late    husband  of  Anne 

236. 
Nowell,  Increase,  indenture,  15;  certificate 

concerning   Nathaniel    Enlling,  97,   152, 

193.  198. 
Nowell,  Parnell,  indenture,  15. 


170. 


,  JOHN,  the  father  of  Thomas 


Odingselle,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  tc  his 
father,  170. 


)ffley,  David  Lechford  borrows  .£3,  66;  bill 
of  exchange  drawn  by,  104;  agreement 
with  Samuel  Hosier,  ib.  ;  letter  of  attor 
ney  to  Edward  Wooleott  it  al.,  120;  bill 
of  exchai  ge,  143;  bond  from  Robert 
Bowen,  143;  articles  of  agreement  with 
Robert  Sedge  wick,  202;  bond  with  Lech- 
ford  to  Joshua  llewes,  238. 

Xliey,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  David,  120. 

)tfley,  Robert,  bill  of  exchange,  104, 

>tHey,  Stephen,  bill  of  exchange,  143. 

Miver,  Elizabeth  [Newgate],  9. 

Hiver,  James,  attorney  for  Miles  Brath- 
wayte,  149. 

Oliver,  John,  37,  41 ;  and  the  "Marv  Rose," 
105,  107;  letter  of  attorney  from  Thomas 
Purchas;  219. 

)liver,  Peter,  89. 

Ormsbee,  Mrs.,  98. 

Owen,  Thomas,  attorney  for  John  Stratton 
and  his  mother,  186, 189, 195;  bill  of  sale 
to  Samuel  Hutchinson  ft  al.,  197,201; 
letter  of  attorney  from  Atherton  Hough, 
201;  damages  to,  ib.;  letter  of  attorney 
to  Edward  Griffith,  202  ;  hires  a  ketch  o"f 
Joseph  Grafton,  ib. 

PAGE,  JOHN,  mortgage  to  George  Druell, 
182. 

Page,  Thomas,  bond  to  Robert  Lucar.  211. 

Palfrey,  Peter,  conveyance  to  George  Rich 
ardson,  47. 
aimer,  Abraham,  petition,  145. 

Palmer,  Edward,  petition,  144. 

Palmer,  John,  petition,  194;  his  father,  ib.  ; 
deposition,  212. 

Palmer,  Judith,  wife  of  William,  139. 

Palmer,  William,  and  others,  make  letter  of 
attorney  to  Tobias  Dixon,  139;  letter  lo 
the  same,  141. 

Panare,  Robert,  violence  of,  114. 

Pauckluirst,  Anne,  129,  171. 

Paramor,  Henry,  business  with  James 
Brock e,  etc.,  75,  et  seq.  ;  case  cited,  218. 

Parish,  Thomas,  and  John  Hood,  indenture, 
5;  bond,  0;  articles  of  agreement,  etc.,  7. 

Parke,  Elias,  52. 

Parke,  Joseph,  prosecuted  for  unrepaired 
fences,  113. 

Parke,  William,  indenture  with  Vincent 
Potter,  60;  mortgage  from  Richard  Calli- 
cott,  213. 

Parker,  John,  articles  of  agreement  with 
Richard  Parker,  145;  bond  from  John 
Barnes,  181. 

Parker,  Nicholas,  23;  deed  to  Walter 
Blackburne,  35;  deed  lo  William  Cheney, 
70;  his  swamp,  139;  his  land  at  Rumney 
Marsh,  141;  buys  land  of  James  Pen, 
142;  conveyance  from  James  Pen,  144; 
to  Edwnrd'Tyng,  ib.  ;  bond  to  Timothy 
Thornhill,  150;  to  Henry  Symonds,  167. 

Parker,  Richard,  deed  and  indenture  with 
John  Throckmorton,  43;  deed,  etc.,  ib.  ; 
indenture  with  Edward  Bendall,  45;  arti 
cles  with  Richard  Morris,  59;  sale  from 
Richard  Bulgar,  69;  deed  to  William 
Cheney,  76;  bond  to  Samuel  Hutchinson 


INDEX. 


455 


and  Thomas  Savage,  91;  conveyance 
from  Robert  Harding,  142;  articles  of 
agreement  with  John  Parker,  145;  prom 
ise  to  pay  from  John  Throckmorton,  149; 
bond  to  Thomas  Fo\vle,  15-5;  mentioned, 
160:  bond  to  Henry  Symonds,  167;  bond 
to  Samuel  Hutchinson  and  Thomas  Sav 
age,  130;  mortgage  from  Thomas  Sy 
monds,  195:  bond  to  Philip  Gibb,  201: 
petition,  223. 

Parker,  Robert,  175. 

Parker,  Thomas,  30. 

Partridge,  William,  -350,  n. 

Patten,  Nathaniel,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Henry  Andrews,  177;  account  with 
Henry  Wolcott  et  «/.,  180. 

Paul,  Daniel,  letter  of  attorney  to  John 
Cole,  1G7. 

Paul,  Elizabeth,  16T. 

Payne,  Edward,  master  of  the  "  Susan  and 
"Ellen,"  91;  bond  from  Robert  Waggett, 
95;  from  Richard  Waldern,  1(55;  from 
John  Holgrove,  181,  182;  George  Druell 
acts  for,  209. 

Payne,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Mayhcw,  117;  from"  David 
OlHey,  120,  175. 

Payne,  Thomas,  husband,  deceased,  of 
Jane  Mayhew,  117. 

Pavne,  Thomas,  chooses  Thomas  and  Jane 
Mayhew,  guardians,  118. 

Payuter,  Thomas,  and  George  Barrel!,  deed 
and  bond,  2i);  witness,  79;  buys  a  house 
of  John  Hansel,  and  conveys  it  to  Thomas 
Clarke,  144. 

Peakes,  John,  bond  to  Thomas  Robinson. 
102. 

Pease,  Joint,  103. 

Peirsou.  William,  95. 

Pel  ham.  perhaps  student  at  law,  xv. 

Pell,  William,  10. 

Pemberton,  James,  petition,  203. 

Pemberton,  John,  the  lot  of,  121). 

Pen,  James,  deed  (with  others),  43;  dealing 
in  land  at  Riimney  Marsh,  141,  142,  144. 

Pendleton,  Hrian,  hi?  house,  86. 

Pequods,  the  expedition  against,  110. 

Perkins,  William,  mortgage  to  Walter 
Black  I  HI  rue,  150. 

Perry,  Arthur,  articles  of  agreement  with 
Richard  Cooke.  59;  bond  to  Timothy 
Thonihill,  157. 

Pester,  William,  articles  of  agreement  with 
Edward  Heale,  141;  in  an  affidavit,  150; 
letter  of  attorney  to  his  uncle,  170. 

Peters,  Hu^h,  lecturer  at  St.  Sepulchre's,  x; 
letter  from  Lechford,  30;  witness,  47; 
letter  of,  103,  115;  conveyance  from  John 
Stralton,  130,  42!».  n. 

Phellin,  Christopher,  211. 

Philips  George,  21. 

Phillips,  George,  ,30. 

Phillips,  William,  bnvs  land  of  George 
Druell,  2:)!). 

Phippen,  David,  defendant  at  suit  of  Ed 
mund  Hubbard,  113. 

Pickering.  John,  letter  of  attorney  to  Isaac 
Allerton,  151;  from  Morgain  Lewys,  158. 


Pickersgill,  Robert,  179. 

Pierce,  Daniel,  and  Vincent  Potter.  60. 

Pierce,  John,  journeyman  to  Leonard  But- 
tolph.  133. 

Pierce,  Marmaduke,  information  of  Edward 
Hall  respecting,  139;  trial  of,  for  murder, 
22;),  n. 

Pierce,  William,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Richard  Morris,  137,  174,  194,  384,  n. 

Pinne,  Richard,  assignment  to  Robert 
Turner,  104;  letter  of  attorney  to  Allen 
Ye  we,  159. 

Pinny,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  to  Rich 
ard  Garrett,  161. 

Plum,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Rucke,  91. 

Pococke,  John,  197. 

Pole,  Edward,  desirous  to  marry,  214. 

Pole,  Elizabeth,  cross  action  with  John 
Treworthy,  113,  1.15. 

Pollard,  George,  letter  of  attorney  from 
John  Pollard,  224. 

Pollard,  John,  and  Thomas  Hawkins,  175; 
acknowledgment,  195  ;  bond  from  Joseph 
Armitage,  202  ;  to  Henry  .Symonds,  ib. ; 
John  Sanford  apprenticed  to,  ib. ;  bond 
from  Edward  Hall,  21(3 ;  letter  of  attorney 
to  Joshua  Hewesand  George  Pollard,  224. 

Pomfret,  Hosanna,  wife  of  William,  181. 

Pomfret,  William,  bond  to  George  Druell, 
181. 

Pomroy,  ,  69. 

I'oole,  John,  25. 

Potter,  Vincent,  and  Daniel  Pierce,  60;  and 
William  Foster,  (J5;  indenture  with 
William  Parke,  66;  apprentices  William 
Browne,  1 19. 

Price,  Richard,  servant  of  John  Pickering, 
151. 

Prigge,  William,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Scndamore,  150. 

Prince,  Mr.,  letter  from  Lechford,  5. 

Prior,  Daniel,  108. 

Prior,    John,    letter   of    attorney   to   Ralph 

^  King.  168. 

Prytine,  William,  Lechford  solicits hiscaiisc, 
Xl  ?  punishment  of.  xii;  sends  Lechford 
money  for  his  passage,  235;  by  him  ac 
counted  among  the  ignorant,  appendix. 

Punderson,  John,  2,  n. ;  conveyance  to 
Thomas  Ravage,  130. 

Purchas,  Thomas,  indenture  with  John  Win- 
throp.  82:  letter  of  attorney  to  Daniel 
Adams,  84;  to  Edward  Gibbons,  ib.  ;  his 
boat,  153:  letter  of  attorney  to  John 
Oliver  et  nl..  219. 

Putnam,  ,  143. 

Pynchon,  William,  35,  S3;  letter  from  John 
*  Johnson,  129. 

QlJICKE,  "WlLUAM,  158.  182. 

Qninsey,  Edmund,  land  of.  62,  n.,  214. 
Quinsey,  Judith,  land  of,  62,  n. 

RAOOTSKI.  GKOTU;I:.  xiii,  30. 
Rainsborough,    William,   letter  of  attorney 

from  Timothy  Thornhill,  158;  mortgage 

from  Thomas  Bright,  164. 


456 


INDEX. 


Raynsford,  Edward,  149. 
Kawlins,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  215. 
Reade,  John,  lease  from  William  Tyng,  61; 
and  bond,  66. 

Redknap,  Elizabeth,  182. 
Redkuap,  Joseph,  letter  of  attorney  to  Rey 
nold  btevens  tt  al.,  182. 

Reese,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Edward 
Howells,  179. 

Rhode  Island,  note  on  the  name,  315,  n. 

Richards,  Mrs.,  178;  owes  Lechford  for  a 
petition,  202;  the  opinion  of  Henry 
Waltham,  207. 

Richards,  Thomas,  pays  £100  to  Israel 
Stoughton,  103;  conveyance  to  Nicholas 
Butler,  144;  his  wife,  *178;  defendant  at 
suit  ot  Henry  Waltham,  195. 

Richardson,  Amos,  8^. 

Richardson,  George,  conveyance  to  Peter 
Palfrey,  47;  indenture  with  Edmund 
James,  48;  conveyance  from  Edmund 
Batter,  ib. 

Richardson,  Samuel,  178. 

Richardson,  William,  100. 

Richmond,  Isaac,  113. 

Rishworth,  Edward,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Gabriel  Fish,  93. 

Rix,  Henry,  attorney  for  ^yilliam  Rix,  171. 

Rix,  William,  grant  to  Elizabeth  Waters, 
171  ;  business  with  John  Davys,  t°6. 

Roberts,  Ellen,  wife  of  Thomas, *150. 

Roberts,  Thomas,  lease  executed  by,  150. 

Roberts,  William,  assigned  servant  to  John 
Crabtree,  150. 

Robinson,  Abraham,  hires  a  shallop,  221. 

Robinson,  Thomas,  sells  the  "Speedwell" 
to  Thomas  Witherley,  158;  account  witli 
John  Swiuforth,  160;  bond  from  John 
Peakes,  162;  deed  from  James  Forrett, 
170;  suit  against  Alice  Thompson,  173 

Robinson.  William,  articles  of  agreement 
with  Thomas  Hawkins,  131. 

Rodbard,  Thomas,  195. 

Roe,  Mr.,  164. 

Roe,  Thomasin,  wife  of  John  Roe,  26. 

Rogers,  Daniel,  letter  of  attorney  fron 
Samuel  Appleton,  101;  from  John 
Rogers,  119. 

Rogers,  Ey.ekiel,  1,  n..  34. 

Rogers,  John.  deftMidnnt  at  suit  of  Thoma 
Watson,  107,   109;  letter  of  attorney  to 
Arthur  Draper  and  Saul  Rogers,  119;  atfi 
davit,  187. 

Rogers,  Robert,  affidavit.  187. 

Rogers,  Thomas,  drawn  upon  by  John 
Rogers,  119. 

Rosseter, ,  deeds  from Johnson,  1 1 5 

Rosseter,  Bray,  house  built  by,  65;  house 
bought  of,  102. 

Rucke,  Thomas,  affidavit  concerning  divers 
goods,  77;  arbitrator,  79;  affidavit  of 
82;  four  perches  from,  ib. ;  letter  of  attor 
ney  to  Thomas  Rucke  ami  Thomas  Plum 
01;  r*.  William  Hatch,  105;  depositioi 
of,  107,  112;  freeman's  oath  to,  145. 

Russell,  Henry,  certificate  concerning,  179 
his  house,  209. 

Russell,  Jane,  179. 


AFFERY,  SOLOMON,  bond  from  Thomas 
Martin,  132. 

Salter,  Jeffrey,  bill  of  exchange  on,  by 
Thomas  Grubb,  172. 

Salter,  £>amson,.158. 

Salter,  William,  lease  from  Augustin  Cle 
ment,  1. 

Saltonstall,  Sir  Richard,  the  Connecticut 
estate  of,  367,  n. 

Saltonstall,  Richard,  witness.  100;  convey 
ance  from  John  Stratton,  130;  his  ser 
vant,  13J. 

Saltonstall,  Robert,  ordnance  bought  of, 
154;  declaration  and  breviat  for,  173; 
debtor  to  Robert  Keayne,  189;  bond  to 
Benjamin  Keavne,  219" 

Sampson,  John,  letter  of  attorney  to  Philip 
^  hite,  182;  endeavors  to  learn  the  trade 
of  a  shipwright,  206;  defendant  at  suit 
of  Richard  Chadwell,  220;  letter  of  attor 
ney  to  David  Yale,  224. 

Sanford,  Richard,  apprentices  his  son  John 
to  Joseph  Armitage,  202. 

Sanley,  Mr.,  171. 

Savage,  Thomas,  perhaps  a  near  neighbor  of 
Lechlord's,  xiv;  witness,  etc.,  8,  10,  24; 
deed  from  him  and  others,  43;  witness, 
67,  68 ;  bond  from  Rjchard  Parker,  91 ; 

S'oins  to  convey  a  house  to  Richard 
lutchinsou,  102,  106;  bill  of  exchange, 
119;  pays  £40  to  John  Wickes,  iu.  ;  note 
given  by,  120;  mentioned,  127,  129;  con 
veyance  from  Robert  Harding,  129;  from 
William  C'hesbrough  tt  «/.,  130;  bond 
from  Richard  Parker,  180;  bill  of  sale  to, 
197;  memorandum,  201;  letter  of  attor 
ney  from  Thomas  I.echford,  234. 

Savcry,  John,  194.     See  Seberry. 

Savillj  William,  petition.  223. 

Say  and  Scale,  Lord,  68,  204,  210. 

Scobell,  John,  vs.  John  Holland,  190,  191. 

Scott,  Ralph,  v».  Edward  Heale,  133. 

Scott,  Robert,  articles  of  agreement,  etc., 
with  William  Jennison,  70;  mentioned, 
158. 

Scudamore,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Ha/zard  tt  al.,  150. 

Search,  John,  deed  from  Samuel  Searle.  164. 

Searchlield,  John,  rs.  William  Eliott,  174. 

Searle,  George,  24. 

Searle,  Samuel,  deed  to  Henry  Dawson  and 
John  Search,  164. 

Seavern,  John,  149. 

Sebborne,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Samuel  Appleton.  101. 

Seberry,  John,  «.  Walter  Merry,  236.  See 
Savery. 

Sedgewick,  Robert,  and  Samuel  Cole,  in 
denture,  31;  articles  of  agreement,  ib. ; 
witness,  36;  bond  to  Edward  Tyng,  65; 
release  from  Samuel  Pierce,  197;  and 
David  Offley,  articles  of  agreement,  202; 
in  Barnabas"  Davis'  account.  205. 

Sellioke,  David,  and  the  Hutchinsons, 
agreement.  65;  indentures,  66;  bond 
from  Edward  Ilutchinson,  68;  bond  to 
Joseph  Baker,  133. 

Sergeant,  Sarah,  wife  cf  William,  137. 


INDEX. 


457 


Sergeant,  William,  his  existence  certified 
to,  137. 

Sewall's  diary  nuoted,  1,  n. 

Shnnvat,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Kuth- 
erine  '.Voelden,  GG, 

Shapley.  Mr.,  172. 

Shave,*  Thomas,  rs.  Thomas  Hett,  52,  54. 

Shaw,  Abraham,  M'ill,  182. 

Shaw,  Joseph,  executor,  182. 

Shepherd,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Mayhew,  177. 

Shepherd,  Samuel,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Nehemiuh  Bourne,  123,  124. 

Sherman,  Edmund,  letter  of  attorney  from 
John  Clarke,  174. 

Sherman,  Mr.,  receipt  for  red  wax,  175. 

Sherman,  Mrs.,  visits  Mrs.  Lcchford,  215; 
her  dealings  with  Lechford  in  tho  "  Sow 
Ca*e,"  2.J4. 

Ships ;  the  "Beaver,"  69;  the  "Castle  of 
London,"  77,  92,  105;  the  "Charles, 
108,  174,  180;  the  "Desire,"  173,  212: 
the  "Endeavour,"  202,  224 ;  the  "  Friend 
ship,"  190,  n. ;  the  "Green  Lyon,"  181, 
182;  the  "Hopewell,"  180;  the  "John 
and  Francis,"  158;  the  "Mary  and 
Anne,"  103,  108;  the  "Mary  Amie,"  5  ; 
the  "  Mary  Rose,"  154,  187  ;"  the  "  Parra- 
inor,"  185;  the  "Patience,"  132;  the 
"Planter,"  137,  213;  the  "Prospera," 
170;  the  "Sparrow,"  29,  172;  the 
"Speedwell,"  158,  271,  n. ;  the  "Susan 
and  Ellen,"  91,  106;  the  "Warwick," 
49;  the  "White  Angel,"  120,  190,  n. 

Shirley,  190,  n.,  120. 

Shotton,  Anthony,  and  Samson  Shotton, 
receipt.  8. 

Shotton,  Thomas,  8. 

Sluite,  Robert,  bond  from  Walter  Merchant 
et  <il.,  209;  suit' against,  for  theft,  210. 

Silk  throwsting,  327,  n. 

Silvester,  Richard,  1ST,  214. 

Skipper,  William,  writings  for  his  children, 
145. 

Smith,  Christopher,  194. 

Smith,  Henry,  letter  of  attorney  from  Sam 
uel  Appleton,  101. 

Smith,  Henry,  prosecuted  for  unrepaired 
fences,  113;  and  Timothy  Hawkins,  172, 
170. 

Smith,  James,  referred  to,  154;  blown  up 
in  the  "Mary  Rose,"  to.;  bond  to  Tim 
othy  Thornhi'H,  156. 

Smith,  James,  suit  against,  for  theft,  219. 

Smith,  John,  witness,  190,  191,  192. 

Smith,  Mary,  wife  of  John  Palmer,  194. 

Smith,  Samuel,  31. 

Smith,  William,  at  complaint  of  Richard 
Lang,  187. 

Souther,  Nathaniel,  107,  108. 

Souther,  Thomas,  197. 

Sparhawke,  Mr.,  107. 

Spencer,  George,  Joseph  Yoang  to  receive 
of,  125. 

Spitty,  Richard,  of  Grey's  Inn,  70;  release 
to  Captain  Jennison,  71. 

Spraguc,  Joan,  wife  of  Ralph  (q.  v.). 

Sprngne,  Ralph,  letter  of  attorney  to  Wil 
liam  Derbv,  22;  letter  to  Alice  Eamcs, 


!      23;  letter  of  attorney  to  John  Holland, 
170. 

Sprague,  William,  rs.  Thomas  Clap,  51; 
prosecuted  for  allowing  his  fences  to  be 
down,  113. 

Squa  Sachem,  wife  of  Webeowites,  143. 

Squire,  John,  et  a/.,  bond  from  Thomas 
Fowle,  155. 

Squire,  Nicholas,  ct  al.,  bond  from  Thomas 
Fowle,  155. 

Stanborough,  Frances,  wife  of  Josiah,  124. 

Stanborough,  Josiah,  to  sue  Alice  Grans- 

i       den.  124;   letter  of  attorney  to  Richard 

Young,  125;  letter  to  Mr.  llarlow,  120. 

Stanley,  Christopher,  buys  a  house  of  Jo 
seph  Faber:  90,  D8;  Sells  it  to  John  Ever- 
et,  98;  assigns  a  boy  to  Isaac  Williams, 
99;  letter  for,  183. 

Stan  shy,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Samuel  Appleton,  10J. 

Stimton,  Thomas,  J60. 

Stanvon,  Anthony,  233. 

Stapley,  Anthony,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Michael  Williamson,  130,  171. 

Starr,  Comfort,  letter  of  attorney  to  Ed 
ward  Michelson,  130,  203. 

Starres,  Thomas,  175. 

Stedman,  John,  letter  of  attorney  to  Thomas 
Hawkins,  126. 

Stegge,  Thomas,  attorney  for  John  Strat- 
ton,  180,  189:  noted,  195. 

Sterne,  Isaac,  letter  of  attorney  to  Thomas 
Gilsen,  100. 

Sterne,  Mary,  166. 

Stevens,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Jo 
seph  Red  knap,  182. 

Stevens,  Reynold,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Joseph  Red  knap,  182. 

Stevens,  Roger,  letter  of  attorney  from  Ed 
ward  IIowcll,  179. 

Stevens,  Thomas,  234. 

Stihbens,  Martin,  and  Walter  Blackburne, 
130. 

Stibbens,  William,  Elizabeth  Glover  grants 
reversion  to,  224. 

Stidson,  William,  with  his  wife,  complained 
against  by  Thomas  Moulton,  152. 

Stile  man,  Robert,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Anne  Stratton  et  nl,  2-0>3. 

Stiles,  Francis;,  his  relations  with  Barnabas 
Davis,  204. 

Stirling,  Earl  of,  bill  of  exchange  on,  50. 

Stockcr,  Thomas,  articles  of  agreement  with 
John  Cogan,  144,  177. 

Stokes,  Edward,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Ed  ward  Hall,  154. 

Stone,  Gregory,  5. 

Stone,  John,  bond  from  William  Edwards, 
117. 

Stoning,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  John 
Cogan,  96. 

Stoiv,  George,  41;  Lech  ford  borrows  sugar 
of.  00;  mentioned,  84;  lends  Lechford 
5s.,  119;  charter  party  with  Mark  Boaple, 
1SI;  Lechford's  part  in  the  "Sow  Case," 
234,  391,  n. 
Stoughton,  Israel,  appointed  attorney  by 
Gabriel  Cornish,  !(>•!:  suit  rs.  Leonard 
Buttolph,  133;  mentioned,  373,  n.,  419,  «. 


458 


INDEX. 


Strafford,  Earl  of,  viii,  x,  xi,  n. 
Strange,  George,  Avriting  of  advice  for,  1; 
deed  from  James  Cade,  26;  and  Dermont 
Matthew,  148;  letter  of  attorney  from 
William  James,  180;  letter  of  attorney 
from  Thomas  Foster,  209. 

Stratton,  Anne,  her  case  against  her 
brother-in-law,  184,  180,  197;  letter  of 
attornev  to  Edward  Gibbons  et  ul.,  233. 

Stratton,  Dorothy,  letter  of  attorney  to  Ed 
ward  Gibbons,  et  al.,  233. 

Stratton,  John,  of  Shotley.  deceased,  184. 

Stratton,  John,  of  Salem*  letter  of  attorney 
to  Richard  Uutchinson,  121;  deed  to  Val 
entine  Hill,  126;  conveyance  to  Richard 
Saltonstall  and  Hugh  1'eter,  130;  deposi 
tion  in  regard  to  his  mother,  185 ;  bill  of 
complaint,  188;  business  in  Virginia,  195; 
will,  190;  affidavit,  197;  letter  of  attornev 
to  Edward  Gibbons  et  al.,  233. 

Stratton,  Joseph,  brother-in-law  of  Anne, 
184,  185,  188. 

Stratton,  William,  son  of  Anne,  184,  188. 

Strecte,  Nicholas,  177. 

Streson,  Robert,  arbitrator,  192. 

Strong,  Philip,  1G5. 

Stubbin,  John,  petition  of;  144,  177. 

Stubbin,  Margaret,  deposition  concerning 
tried  suet,  177. 

Summer  Islands,  29. 

Sutherland.  Matthew,  bond  to  Thomas  Rob 
inson,  1G2;  deed  from  James  Forrest, 
170. 

Sutton,  Ambrose,  34;  description  of,  35. 

Sutton,  Elizabeth,  her  portion,  216;  letter 
of  attornev  to  Francis  Lisle  and  Walter 
Blackburne,  234. 

Sutton,  John,  father  of  Elizabeth,  234. 

Swadden,  Philip,  Thomas  Ilett  draws  letter 
of  attorney  on,  70. 

Swan,  Henry,  107. 

Swift,  William,  and  Andrew  Coleman,  174; 
Lechford  searches  the  affidavit  olh'ce  in 
his  behalf,  239. 

Swimmer,  Mr.,  and  Mr.  Humfrev,  re 
lease,  1. 

Swimmer,  Anthoiry,  14,  210,  378,  n. 

Swimmer,  Navman,  210,  378,  n. 

Swiriforth,  John,  account  with  Thomas 
Robinson,  160. 

Symonds,  Henrv,  bond  from  Richard  and 
Nicholas  Parker,  1(57;  defendant  at  suit 
of  Henry  Wolcott,  180;  bond  from  Rich 
ard  Wright,  194;  bond  from  Joseph 
Armitage,  202. 

Svmonda.  Samuel,  commissioner  to  Dover, 
"  228. 

Symonds,  Thomas,  mortgage  to  Richard 
Parker,  1!)5;  defendant  at  suit  of  John 
Cogan,  199. 

TAI.MAGE.  ROBERT,  167, 175. 

Talmago,  Thomas,  167,  175. 

Talmage,  William,  with  the  two  above,  let 
ter  of  attorney  to  Richard  Canying 
et  nl.,  167;  same  to  Ralph  King,  '175; 
defendant  at  suit  of  John  Cogan,  199. 

Taunton,  John,  lotter  of  attorney  from  Ed 
ward  Ileale,  154. 


|  Taylor,  Philip,  169. 
Taylor,  Thomas,   bond  to  Thomas  Miller 

165;  to  William  Goose,  172. 
Thatcher,  Mr.,  159. 
Thatcher,   Peter,   attornev  for   Christopher 

Batt,  116. 
Thompson,  Alice,  rs.  Thomas  Robinson,  173, 

Thompson,  Elizabeth,  late  wife  of  George, 
236. 

Thompson,  George,  release  from  Elizabeth 
Thorp,  236. 

Thompson,  Maurice,  74;  purchases  shares  in 

the  ''Planter,"  213. 

Thompson,  Robert,  lenses  a  lighter  to  Joseph 
Armitage,  207;  release  from  Elizabeth 
Thorp,  236. 

Thorndike,  Elizabeth,  deposition  in  regard 
to  Mrs.  Stratton,  185;  wife  of  John,  233. 

Thorndike,  John,  husband  of  Elizabeth, 
185;  letter  of  attorney  to  Edward  Gib 
bons  et  al.,  233. 

Thornhill,  Timothy,  bond  from  Francis 
Willonghby  tt  al.,  156;  from  William 
Cole  et  al.,ib.;  from  Edmund  Hull  et  al., 
157;  letter  of  attorney  to  William  Rains- 
borough,  158. 

Thornton,  Thomas,  agreejnent  with  John 
Tinker,  1. 

Thoroughgood,  Thomas,  172. 

Thorp,  Elizabeth,  release  to  George  and 
Robert  Thomson,  236. 

Tbrockmorton,  Mr.  [George],  1,  2,  3. 

Throckraorton,  John,  and  Richard  Parker, 
deed  and  indenture,  42;  bill,  149. 

Thurston,  John,  executor,  233. 

Tinker,  John,  agreement  with  Thomas 
Thornton,  1;  assignment  of  certain  tene 
ments  to,  1;  and  Augustin  Clement, 
grant,  1;  articles  of  agreement,  2;  bond, 
3;  mentioned,  4,  5;  and  William  Wilson, 
indenture,  bond  and  articles  of  agreement, 
10,  11.  12. 

Tinker,  John,  letter  of  attorney  from  Rob 
ert  Keavne,  189. 

Toby,  Francis,  220. 

Toll".  Roger,  petition  of,  224. 

Tongue,  John,  165. 

Tooker,  John,  suit  against  Isaac  Allerton, 
209. 

Tose,  John,  defendant  at  suit  of  Thomas 
Ilctt,  53. 

Townshend,  William,  receives  William 
Boreman  apprentice,  130. 

Tracy,  Stephen,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Watson,  122.  125. 

Treble,  John,  violence  of,  152. 

Trerise,  Nicholas,  and  Samuel  Maverick, 
indenture,  137 ;  and  Joshua  llcwes, 
account,  133;  mentioned,  165. 

Freworthy,  John,  and  the  great  boat  of 
Thomas  Purchas,  85;  cross  suit  with 
Elizabeth  Pole,  113,  115;  complaint 
against,  bv  William  I  loll  way,  172. 

Trcworthy,  Mr.,  boat  of,  153. 

Troworthy,  Nicholas,  176,  213. 

Tucker,  John,  113,  120. 

Tunnard,  Richard,  12. 

Turner,  John,  161. 


INDEX, 


459 


Turner,  Richard,  194. 

Turner,  Kobe-it,  his  house,  159;  assignment 
from  Richard  Pinne,  164. 

Turner,  Thomas,  bond,  172. 

Tuthill,  Richard,  deed,  43;  lands  of,  119. 

Tyng,  Edward,  bond  from  Robert  Sedge- 
"  wick,  65;  articles  of  agreement  with 
Thomas  Cornell,  142;  conveyance  from 
Nicholas  Parker,  144;  his  house,  182. 

Tyng,  Mr.,  173. 

Tyng,  William,  and  William  Coddington, 
"deed,  bond,  etc.,  30,  37,  39;  lease  to  John 
Keade,  01;  bond,  00;  mortgage  from 
William  Wintered,  140;  mortgage  from 
Edward  liendall,  142;  deed  from  the 
Hutchinsons,  177;  arbitrator,  194;  sale 
of  land  by  the  Hutchinsons,  212,  214; 
the  land  at  Mount  Wollaston,  214 ;  audi 
tor  in  the  case  of  Barnabas  Davis,  217 ; 
mentioned,  419,  n. 

UNDEKHILL,  JOHN,  180,  239,  n. ;  petition  for 
pardon,  222. 

Underwood,  Thomas,  prosecuted  for  allow 
ing  his  fences  to  be  down,  113. 

Uphain,  John,  complaint  ot  Richard  Lang 
against,  187. 

Upton,  John,  203. 

VANK,  Sir  Harry  (the  Younger),  grant  of 
land  to  William  Bernard,  00;  his  land  at 
Rmnnev  Marsh,  141;  mentioned,  204. 

Vayle,  Richard,  24. 

Veriif,  Hilliard,  140.  (Incorrectly  printed 
Peri  n  in  the  text.) 

Vicars,  William,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Thomas  Witherley,  158;  certificate  con 
cerning,  182;  bond  from  Samuel  Haskill, 
ib. 

Viner,  Mr.,  letter  of  attorney  from  George 
Denison,  211. 

WADE,  JAMES,  letter  of  attorney  to,  99. 

Wadsworth,  Christopher,  109. 

Waggett,  Robert,  bond  to  Edward  Payne, 
95. 

Waite,  Richard,  10,  98,  99,  137,  138. 

Wakeman,  Samuel,  bond  from  Valentino 
Hill  et  al.,  174;  account  with  Nathaniel 
Patten,  180. 

Waldern,  Richard,  bond  to  Edward  Payne, 
105;  attorney  for  John  Jorden,  ib. 

Waldern,  William,  attorney  for  John  Jor 
den,  165. 

Walker,  Andrew,  letter  of  attornej'  from 
Samuel  Freeman,  155. 

Walker,  Richard,  letter  of  attorney,  31;  et 
al.,  letter  of  attorney  to  Richard  "Cany  ing 
et  (7/.,  107;  same  to'Ralph  King,  175. 

Wall  is,  Thomas,  assignment  to  Henry 
Watts,  209. 

Waltham,  Henry,  Mrs.  Richnrds'  opinion 
of,  178;  vs.  Thomas  Richards.  195;  bond 
from  Jeremy  Gould  and  William  Jeffries, 
207;  Mrs.  Richards'  opinion  again  ex 
pressed,  ib. 

Waltham,  Mr.,  and  Captain  DeSallenoba,  1. 

Waltham,  William,  Mrs.  Richards'  opinion 
of  him,  178. 


Ward,  Anne,  174. 

Ward,  John,  174. 

Ward,  Robert,  72. 

Warde,  Mr.,  30. 

Warde,  Samuel,  complained  of  by  Anne 
Norton,  230. 

Ware,  William,  arbitrator  and  witness,  190, 
101. 

Warham,  Jane,  83. 

Warham,  John,  lands  of,  67;  articles  of 
agreement  in  behalf  of,  83 ;  and  bond, 
84;  mention,  204. 

Warren,  Arthur,  J87. 

Warrenton,  Thomas,  158. 

Warwick,  Earl  of,  bond  from  John  Griffin, 
146. 

Washburne,  Mrs.,  205. 

Waters,  Elizabeth,  grant  from  William  Rix, 
17J. 

Waters,  George,  bond,  etc.,  151,  153. 

Watson,  Anna,  daughter  of  John,  deceased, 
122,  125. 

Watson,  John,  122,  125. 

Watson,  Thomas,  rs.  John  Rogers,  107,  109; 
letter  of  attorney  to  Stephen  Tracy,  122, 
125. 

Watts,  Ilenrv,  assignment  from  Thomas 
Wallis,  20!i. 

Wax,  receipt  for  red,  175. 

Webb,  Henry,  bond  from  Francis  Doughty, 
91;  mention,  224. 

Webb,  John  Everet  (7.  r.)  aliag,  60,  65,  98; 
commission  to  trade,  224  ;  note  on,  227,  n. 

Webb,  William,  John  Chandler  bound  ap 
prentice  to,  202. 

Webcowites,  grant  of  land  to  Jotham  Gib 
bons,  143. 

Wedgewood,  John,  115;  Mary  his  wife,  ib. 

Weeden,  Edward,  100. 

Weelden,  Katharine,  letter  to  John  Shanvat, 
66. 

Weelden,  Martha,  the  death  of,  60. 

Weld,  Joseph,  letter  of  attorney  from  Eliza 
beth  Blackburne,  234. 

Weld,  Thomas,  35;  his  house,  76;  mention, 
42i),  n. 

Welles,  Lanncelot,  r*.  Ralph  Kins,  108. 

Wcntworth,  Sir  Thomas.     See  Stratford. 

Weston,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Roger  Conant,  130;  rs.  Thomas  Bafnardis- 
ton,  157. 

Weymonth,  Jonathan,  ra.  Edward  IToale, 
133;  letter  of  attorney  to  Richard  Waite, 
137. 

Wheeler,  Ephraim,  172. 

Wheelwright,  John,  covenant  for  service 
with  Elizabeth  Evans,  70;  mention  99,  n., 
210,  n.,  223,  n. 

Wheelwright,  Mary,  19,  n. 

Whetcombe,  Mary*  wife  of  Simon,  113. 

Whetcombe,  Simon,  certain  ground  belong 
ing  to,  113. 

White,  Edmund,  buys  a  house  of  Winifred 
Woolcott,  232,  236. 

White,  John,  bond  for  John  Elford,  126. 

White,  Philip,  letter  of  attorney  from  Wil 
liam  Grev,  141;  from  John  Sampson,  182. 

Wintered,  William,  mortgage  to  William 
Tyng,  140. 


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INDEX. 


Whittemore,  Thomas,  petition  of,  203. 

Whittinghiim,  John,  212. 

Wickes,  John,  draws  bill  ou  his  brother 
Thomas,  ll'J. 

Wickes,  Thomas,  IIU. 

Wiggon,  Thomas,  commissioner  to  Dover, 
228. 

Wilbert,  William,  bond  from  John  Cutten, 
father  and  son,  212. 

Wilkinson,  Prudence,  178;  petition,  203, 
2-23. 

Willard,  Simon,  trading  license,  237. 

Williams,  Francis,  411),  n. 

Williams,  Owen,  placed  apprentice  to  Wil 
liam  Withington,  170. 

Williams,  Roger,  1. 

Williamson,  Anne,  wife  of  Michael,  129, 171. 

Williamson,  Michael,  letter  of  attorney  to 
Anthony  Stapley,  129;  release  to  Eliza 
beth  Geere,  171. 

Willis, ,  114. 

Willis,  Jeremiah,  letter  of  attorney  against, 
141. 

Willis,  John,  109. 

Willis,  Thomas,  182. 

Willoughby,  Francis,  bond  to  Timothy 
Thornhill,  150. 

Willoughbv,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  from 
Nehemiah  Bourne,  107. 

Wilson,  John,  80;  articles  of  agreement  with 
Richard  Wright,  144. 

Wilson,  1'atience,  10. 

Wilson,  Thomas,  10,  11. 

Wilson,  William,  and  William  Dinely, 
lease,  10;  and  John  Tinker,  indenture, 
bond  and  articles  of  agreement,  ib.,  tt  seq. 

Winies,  Matthew,  father-in-law  of  Thomas 
Foster,  209. 

Winies,  Robert,  209. 

Wing,  Robert,  sends  a  message  to  his  cousin 
2:i5. 

Winne,  Edward,  hired  bvv  Barnabas  Davis, 
210. 

Winslow,  Edward,  answer  to  his  suit  vs 
John  Askew,  203. 

Winthrop,  Adam,  testimony  of,  121;  re 
ferred  to.  127. 

Winthrop,  John,  stndent-aMaw.  xv;  wit 
ness,  etc.,  16,  18,  21,  22,  24,  25,  29;  note 
on,  35,  n.;  indenture  with  John  Throck- 
morton,  42;  certificate,  (59 ;  another,  78, 
79,  82;  indenture  with  Thomas  Pnrchas, 
86,  88,  89,  91;  certificate,  93,  101;  cer 
tificate,  104;  writes  to  the  governor  oi 
Plymouth  asking  justice  in  the  case  ol 
Merriam  r.<?.  Hatch,  112;  certificates,  etc., 
115,  117,  120,  12ti,  136,  137,  139;  sells 
land  to  John  Newgate,  141,  157;  in  the 
Barnabas  Davis  case.  205;  certificate,  209. 
Winthrop,  John,  Jr.,  429,  n. 
Winthrop,  Stephen,  shipping  papers,  29; 

witness".  82;  recorder,  425,  n. 
Wiseman,    Sir    William,    10;    letter    from 
KatherineCoytmore,  tt  al.,  17;  bond,  18; 
note  on,  28,  n. 


Witherington,  Henry,  190,  193. 
NVitherley,  Thomas,  Vs.  Edward  Heale,  132; 
William    Boreman  apprenticed    to,    142; 
letter  of  attorney  to  William  Vicars,  158; 
buys  the  "Speedwell,"  ib.,  189. 
Withington,  William,  bill  of  exchange  in 
lavor  of,  119;  and  Owen  Williams,  176; 
bond   to   Philip  Gibbs,  ib.;   assigns  ser 
vant  to  John  Budd,  170;  articles  of  agree 
ment  with  Robert  Harding,  183. 
Witting,   Anthony,  letter  of  attorne}'  from 

Edmund  Browne,  80. 

Wood,  Edward,  assigns  Thomas  Cooper  to 
Leonard  Buttolph,  112;  deed  from  Wil 
liam  Brackenbury,  etc.,  133. 
Wood,  Robert,  letter  of  attorney  to,  23. 
Woodcock,  John,  dealings  with   Barnabas 

Davis,  204,  210,  216,  217,  221. 
Woodcock,  William,  21.     <b'ee  John. 
Woodrowe,  Matthew,  212. 
Woodward,  Nathaniel,  defendant  at  suit  of 

John  Cogan,  199. 
Woolcott,  Edward,  letter  of  attorney  from 

David  Offley,  120. 

Woolcott,  Elizabeth,  chooses  guardians,  24. 
Woolcott,  Henry,  24;  bond  to  John  lies,  90; 
letter  of  attorney  from  David  Oftley,  120; 
bond  from  Valentine  Hill  tt  «/.,  174;  ac 
count  with  Nathaniel  Patten,  180. 
Woolcott,  John,  24,  232. 
Woolcott,  Mary,  chooses  guardians,  24. 
Woolcott,  Winifred,  39,  n.  ;  sells  a  house  to 

Edmund  \Vhite.  232,  230. 
Woolner,    William,    release    from    Robert 

llempenstall,  207. 
Worlidge,  Thomas,  letter  of  attorney  from 

George  Denison,  211. 
Wory,  Ralph,  petition,  222. 
W  right,  Richard,  bond  to  William  Tyng, 
(JO;  articles  of  agreement  and  bond  with 
John  Wavham,  h3,  84;  articles  of  agree 
ment  with  John  Wilson,  144  ;  to  make  an 
inventory,  148;   bond   to  Walter  Black- 
burne,  148;  to  Henry  Symonds,  194;  to 
George  Alcocke,  ib. 
Wvatt,  Sir  Francis,  188;   Thomas  Dudley 

to,  190. 
Wyatt,  William,  102. 

YALE,  DAVID,  letter  of  attorney  from  John 

hampson,   224  ;    receipt    of    deed    from 

Winifred  Woolcott,  232. 
Yew,  Thomas,  35. 
Yewe,  Allen,  mortgage   to  Thomas   Fowle 

and  Samuel  Maverick,  158;  letter  of  at 

torney  from  Richard  Pinne,  159;  assign 

ment  of  his  debt,  104.  •    , 
Young,  Joseph,  defendant  at  suit  of  Timothy 

Hatherly,    103,    108;    letter  of   attorney 

from  Henry  Grey,  125. 
Young,    Richard,  letter  of    attorney   from 

Josiah  Stanborough,  125. 
Yovawan,  deed  to  Lion  Gardiner,  129. 

ZANCHY,  Mr.,  his  opinion,  159. 


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